Organize + Energize: 10 Signs It’s Time to Get Organized

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Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Kristin MacRae, GoLocalWorcester Organizing Expert

Are you stressed, overwhelmed, and anxious? Are you disorganized? Wouldn’t you love to have more free time, less stress, more energy, and have more money in your pocket? These are just some of the advantages of being organized. There are more, and you will experience every one of them once you get organized. First thing you have to do is come to the realization that your disorganization is affecting your quality of like at work and at home.

Here are 10 signs it’s time to get organized:

1. You spend countless hours searching for things. It’s time to get organized if you walk around in circles in your home or office searching for items.  You are wasting precious time due to your disorganization.

2. You are wasting money purchasing duplicate items. How many times have you looked for an item in your home, couldn’t find it so you went out and purchased another one? Get organized, and this will never happen again.

3. You have one room in your home where you can’t see the floor. There is one room in your home that you drop items in that you don’t know what to do with. The door to this room usually stays shut and nobody is allowed in. I bet there are some things buried in that room that you have been looking for or forgot you had.

4. You have piles of mail that haven’t been opened. You have mail exploding out of drawers, in cabinets, on the top of your desk and flooding the dining room table.  You probably leave it there because the process to tackle it is just too overwhelming. Are you tired of looking at these piles? Wouldn’t it be nice to actually sit at an organized, clutter free desk?

5. You are embarrassed to have guests over. Do you have a panic attack when the doorbell rings and it’s an unexpected visitor? You love to entertain, but haven’t been able to have guests over because you don’t want them to see how disorganized and cluttered your home is. It’s time to get organized and start partying again!

6. You shove items into an already stuffed closet when you know guests are coming over. The holidays roll around and you find yourself stuffing items into closets, cabinets, or the basement. You are creating more work for yourself. Get organized and you’ll never have to run around the house stuffing items into closets again.

7. You can’t see the bottom of your clothes closet floor. If you have to step over clothes to get into your closet, it’s time to declutter, downsize, and get organized.  

8. Mentally, you feel like you are moving in 10 different directions. You feel like your head is going to explode. You may be a little anxious and stressed. Start using a to-do list. Clear the mental clutter. Get it out of your head and onto paper.

9. You are showing up late to appointments or forgetting about them entirely. Your friends and family know that you will show up at least an hour late to any event. You were probably trying to find a match to a shoe. How many times has your beauty salon or doctor called to tell you that you missed your appointment?  Your time management skills are lacking and it’s time to get back on track.

10. You’ve had a life changing event that has thrown you for a loop. Maybe you just went through a break up or are going through a divorce. A family member may have passed or you have just moved into a new home. Any of these life events will sometimes turn your life upside down. You may have been an organized person before this change,  but now you’ve let things go and before you know it, things are out of control and you are finding it difficult to get back to where you were several months ago.

Think you can’t get organized? Everybody can get organized and at any time! It’s just takes a little patience, skills, and hard work. If these areas I mentioned above are dragging you down, think about making a change. What are you waiting for; make that change for the better! You can do it!

Kristin Carcieri-MacRae, the founder and owner of Organizing in RI, has always enjoyed finding creative ways to streamline the environment around her. She has appeared on air on Patricia Raskin's Positive Business Radio and her articles have been published in the Rhode Island Small Business Journal and New England Home Life. Kristin's CD, Organizing Basics, is a 1-hour guide for the person who wants to get organized but doesn't know where to start. She is also available for organizing workshops. Tune into her weekly radio show, Organize, Energize! on Mondays at 8:30am on http://www.talkstreamradio.com.

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