A Commonplace Book

Category: organizing...

  • organization experts that can be hired
  • organized spices, pots and pans, closets, personal papers, work area/desk
  • simplification combined with organization
  • Sort, Purge, Assign a home, Containerize, Equalize
  • Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thoughts. (M. Cooley)
  • If you can organize your kitchen, you can organize your life. (L. Parrish)
  • successful organizing is looking at the big picture, not one small part
  • you only use about 20% of what you own - the other 80% is just there: we feel we should use it or think we might use it someday
  • imagine there was a fire and identify the 20% that you would want to save
  • a book like DK Organizing Hints & Tips or Organize Yourself!

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