Quotation – Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

– Benjamin Franklin

Quotations to Motivate your Organization and Organizing

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

– Mark Twain

Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor – it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.

– Peter Walsh

Being organized isn’t about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person; it’s about living the way you want to live, but better.

– Andrew Mellon

Recs – Organization Helpers

Some of my favorite organization helpers, both on and offline:

Unfuck Your Habitat – obvious language warning. Great hints, tips, and motivation

The January issues of pretty much any and every women’s magazine on the newsstand, especially Real Simple, Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, and Martha Stewart Living. Those for will probably have a special organizing issue for the first two months of the year.

Day Planners/Schedule Keepers: I prefer Mead, which can be found at Target and Franklin Covey. Check online (Pinterest) for specialty downloadable ones.

List Apps: 2Do is what I’m currently using and I am very happy with it.

Note Apps: Notes and Sticky Notes are both very good.

Save/Read Later: Pocket(Read it Later)

Organizing your Notes/Note-taking: Evernote is the best there is, and can be synched between mobile devices, tablets, computers, and anyone’s computer through an internet browser. Don’t forget to sign out when you’re finished. Evernote also does what Pocket does and can be used for checklists.

Quotation – A. A. Milne

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

– A. A. Milne

A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place

A view from my corner office: I have a corner, a chair, built-in bookshelves, a file box, a table lamp, and a pile of organizational tools that I try to use to make myself more efficient; and if course, organized.

Sometimes, it works.

January is the perfect time to reorganize our offices and or lives, what with the cold, snowy weather that keeps us inside.

Here are a few of my office organization; some a bit more unusual than others.

This was a rooster-style book and paper holder from Cracker Barrel, for the kitchen that I've repurposed for my current files. It needs going through.