Top Ten Tips For Having Fun OrganizingWritten by Mahalene Louis
Has word “clutter” become a negative trigger for you? Do piles of papers or stacks of stuff invade and haunt your physical and mental space? Do you feel hopeless at thought of filing or clearing? How about if your beliefs on creating order would “reorganize” themselves, in a Mary Poppins way, easily, effortlessly, and playfully, could you then conceive of not only getting organized, but also staying clutter free? 1. Play… Colors Colors are life, colors are fun! Each has a special message to give you, personally! Use them: take your child self on a shopping trip to an office place, and choose folders in color that you like most, be it a bright orange, a sophisticated teal, or a spirited violet. Play with this; maybe you want to have matching or contrasting colors for your hanging files folders… Let yourself start a brand new journey with your paper world, colored by magic of a rainbow… 2. Play… Sant (Pleasant) Along with new appealing folders instilling joy and renewal and clearing old patterns, look at objects that are in your décor, e.g. pencil cup, paper trays, lamps, etc… Do you like them? Do they make you smile each time you look at them? Frame photograph of your beloved with a frame that brings you pleasure, or invest in slick metallic office set that you like! Those small investments will transform your mood, and thus your world… 3. Play… Business Guru It is all about playing: create a fun ritual around your organizing sessions. Possibly go to a costume store, and buy yourself a pair of Groucho Marx’s glasses (with mustache!) For 15 min. of organizing, put on those glasses, and pretend you are an organization expert, or a business guru. Have fun! 4. Play… Order Builder Think of yourself as a Body Builder, and as organizing as your favorite workout. Do a set of 15 minutes. No more. Actually use an egg timer to make sure you are not overworking your order muscles… We wouldn’t want for you to be so exhausted tomorrow, and so sour you won’t touch your files for another month! Just commit to do a set for 15 minutes a day, five days a week! Easy… For each organizing set, treat yourself to a 15 minutes passion break, where you do something you are totally passionate about! 5. Play it… And Joy Will Come This is my promise to you: since it is much harder to resist doing something than actually doing it, joy will flow to your heart after your very first session! After a week, you will truly relish in your accomplishment, and start seeing a path to your own freedom. A month will grant you a self-esteem that you never thought was possible! Not counting greater effectiveness, and satisfaction of knowing what you own, and where it is!
| | Top Ten Best Excuses To Not Use The Time Of Your LifeWritten by Mahalene Louis
“Time is on my side, yes, it is!” Each time I think of time, Mike Jagger’s melody enters my mind… For me it is a song, for another a tragedy. What is time, that it consumes so many of us; how much of it we have, how little, what to do with it, how to conjugate it? The following “human reasons” are offered as clever and humorous making of our mind time machine…1. I don’t have any! Time is generally viewed as a measurable device. We are saving it, spending it, clocking it, wasting it, investing it! Time is money! Some of us experience lack, some abundance: If we just had money, we could buy ourselves time… If I just had time, I could make more money… I once read an unforgettable fortune cookie: “it is not as important to count time, as it is to make time count.” Choose a moment today to use and utilize fully! 2. My time or yours? This one concerns overly committed, who is serving on so many committees, and helping so many friends, she has no time to take care of herself adequately. Time to learn to say “no” to others, and “yes” to my goals. Today pick an occasion to say a simple “no, thank you” and do something in that time you had never done before! 3. I was born that way! “As long as I recall, I have always been late.” Is being late a statement you enjoy making? Or are you late because you attempt to do too much at a time, and try to prove your worth by scheduling more in a span of time that it can possibly contain? Today do whatever it takes to arrive 10 minutes early to a meeting, and experience expansion of your momentum… 4. I am not ready! There have been times where I have used destiny and Ecclesiastes’ saying (For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven,) as a reason to not change. “My time hadn’t come,” I would say! The sobering thought about waiting for perfect time or procrastinating is that tomorrow might never come. To add to dilemma, “I’m not ready” may become “it’s too late!” Take action today on something you were not “ready” to do, dive, and watch your creative power soar! 5. I’m in a hurry! This one is also about control, but in other direction… The motion of life is oscillating, spiraling rather than straight and linear. Today, stop pushing river: allow a certain amount of meandering time in which to do nothing. As you develop a habit for that, watch events that you could never make happen occur spontaneously! It’s all in rhythm, man, all in curve! 6. I have no patience! The gardener does not watch every single second if his tomatoes have grown, nor does expecting mother ask her baby to be born before term! The mystery of creation and creativity demands that one respects nature’s timing. From perspective of allowing, how long it takes is irrelevant! Life, like art, takes what it takes, and as long as it will take. Today become pregnant with something; a book you will once birth, a decluttering project, a fitness goal…
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