How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time….
I’ve just discovered the joy of doing long or boring jobs I don’t want to do, a little bit at a time. When I was younger, I used to be a perfectionist and this was reinforced by the fact that I had boundless energy. I [...]
It might seem like a Zen conundrum, but there is actually a difference between the way storage in a bedroom and storage in an attic works, which naturally tidy people seem to understand instinctively and which naturally messy people don’t. The problem arises because we use the same word for both types of storage, and [...]
In the last three blogs I posted, I looked at immediate, grass roots ways to stop lateness adding to your clutter problems, and how to create more time in the long term. This final blog on the subject contains the third, medium term strategy to solving the vicious circle of messiness and lateness. Using all [...]
In part 2 of this particular blog, I started to look at the issue of a chronic lack of time for organising your space so that your life runs smoothly, from the point of view of ‘the big picture’. I’d like to continue with that today by examining the other possible ‘big picture’ issue, which [...]
Last time, I looked at a grass roots method of stopping the vicious circle of messiness and lateness taking over your house. Hopefully, you will be well on your way to understanding how to create small pockets of calm and tidiness in your day, which can become larger and larger.
This time I want to start [...]
Are messiness and time management related? I think they can have a knock on effect on each other and together they can produce a nasty vicious circle that it’s hard to break out of. Here’s how they can gang up on you.
Being perpetually late for things will tempt you to leave your house in a [...]
Has your ‘blitz tidying’ ever lasted longer than a week? It might be a myth that crash diets work, but it’s an even bigger one that those almost hysterical clear outs you do when you just can’t stand the mess anymore, work either. This is a myth that even some best selling de-clutter books perpetuate. [...]
Are you one of those people who LOVES storage solutions? Do you see yourself being neat in your minds eye the second you pick one up? Do you long for chunky shelves with nothing on them but 3 raffia storage boxes with leather handles which tone in with your leather sofa (I always have a leather sofa in these fantasies…) in which all your old photos and memorabilia are sorted? Often, the reality is more like huge piles of papers, electronic spaghetti, toys, unwashed cups and trinkets with ‘a present from Margate’ on them….
