How Do You Stay Organized?

What’s the Eisenhower Matrix?

I have a Hair Salon in my house which is spotless but the rest of my house is a shit show. Seems like earning a living is my driver to keep the salon maintained and also clients judging me

the story just leaves me frustrated: "Search you a buddy for tidying up"- how often I tried that in my life! It's like- "don't say no, to all the offered help" after the birth of the baby. I've got way more toxic and egocentered people around, than helping hands. But the last one I wanted to pay for cleaning/paperwork (she has offered exactly that for money) told me, it's that bad I would need (and get) a professionell help, she hasn't worked for me, though, just bizarr...🥳 I'm sharing for other people might feel less allone in: not everything is realistic, it depends on other people as well.

I put a container where ever I see clutter. And just chuck it in. It makes me feel better

I try and put stuff in the same place all the time and try to keep at least one of everything in each room of the flat!

App "Alarmed"

I organize my life by doing tasks I enjoy and love. ❤️ I think it’s a good strategy. If there is something that I don’t want to do/don’t like, that’s when I think of “what am i looking forwards to?”. That helps me because then I can know what is ahead and make life way easier

Marie kondo. Using shoe boxes for storage same category and one it’s folded and it doesn’t move I love it and I can stick with the same organization non stop but it’s works once I make a good classification and the things don’t move so much. For me it’s very overwhelming the box mix with everything it makes my brain collapse …

I organize once and try to make a routine about where everything goes. Ex: If I need my scissors they're all in the same place and I return them there when I finish using them. It's like the classroom never change the order so kids can get used to put it back. My house is the same or else I lose my stuff.

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I like to organize and the results are a huge reward. But I need to go into Hyperfocus in order to get the job done. So I take a long time to accomplish one project but it’s worth it.

I literally have to reorganize my desk every day. I also dont know if anyone else feels this way but - honestly when i do organize and put stuff away, even if i label it - out of sight out of mind and then it becomes a nightmare trying to find things. So ill have piles of things, papers for work, a dresser that looks like a bomb went off on it and theres just random items all lver it, piles or clothes the list is endless. HOWEVER - i can tell u where very specific items are in each “mess”. I call it organized messes because it works for me. But it also is extremely stressful to live in what looks like sheer chaos. So if it looks good i feel better, but really it makes it harder for me to do things because i never remember where anything is. Ill find things in random drawers etc months later that i frantically searched for for days and never found. Honestly i cant find a balance. Same with my laptop. I have 1000000 different apps and tabs and documents open which is so disorganized but if i close them ill forget about them and then it turns into a bigger issue.

I have a playlist "cleaning battle" 😅🤣

If I had one Bluetooth in my ear playing a book or something interesting that I can listen to, I can focus better which makes no sense at all

I also I'm able to concentrate and put things away during the news in the morning

I‘m still on my way but finding out that I love routines and hate only the ones my family put in place for me helped me a lot.

If only I could afford to donate everything cluttering my spaces, and then repurchase only what I need. If I needed something I got rid of I could just replace it. Super wasteful, yes, but it would be effective.

Mari kondo method really changed my life.... specially the life of my drawers 😂. When I was little I literally put anything in the drawers casually....and after days and weeks I had absolutely no Idea what's was inside. I have some trash disorganized drawers like that, but they have actually a category soo I know what's actually inside a little better 😂

I’m using UGMonk cards to write down and have my todo list in front of me the whole time.

To do from Microsoft and Google calendar, I have widgets in my phone and also it gives reminders so I can always check and be reminded, otherwise I would probably forget every evaluation i have during the semester or events

I use the Live Minder app. I have an iPhone and it sets reminders on my Lock Screen so I can always see them before I open up my phone.

It comes and goes After i organized it and then a phase where i got busy and messy, no time to clean come after. Then again,wait for another loop where i have time to reorganize the mess again. But as i get older the mess reduce its size because i manage to clean more often maybe?

I like to organize and tidy up my room while watching the news in the morning. It starts my day off right by making me feel accomplished and I don’t always want to focus on the news but enjoy hearing people reporting on stories in the background!

I intend to clean everywhere and get nothing done. 1 thing at a time, but only if it was that easily

I'm still wondering...

When I decide to finally clean my whole apartment today. It never works. Strange how my mind works… Just 10 minutes every day works better.

I don’t stay organized. My areas are like my thoughts-scattered everywhere. My husband picks up the common areas because he can’t stand clutter. ☹️ Organizing is something I want to work on.

I have a minimalistic style in in my apartment and have 2 turn down lots of cool stuff

Leaving my essentials in one spot each time!

I have so much stuff! We just got written up by our apartment for too much clutter. My husband is mad at me. My kids hate me. I have been crying nonstop since we got the notice on Friday. We are on a list.

I’m the type that is always on the brink of crisis or I’m totally sailing. It’s one extreme or the other! I need to live in a house that is minimalistic and currently I’ve accumulated to the point of destruction again. So yes in crisis must declutter, throw away, rid of certain people and start to organise my life again.

Not putting something down unless it's in its designated place. I don't want it's really hard w Laundry

I'm that person who buys books and magazines on organization then buys cute baskets or other storage pieces which somehow leads to more clutter drives my husband crazy 🤦‍♀️

I have lost control. I’m trying desperately to get back on track.

Toss items daily. And there is a lot to toss believe me. 😳

Stick to a routine daily or I let everything go and set hopeless wishing I had energy.

Put my headphones on works as a starter

Do it directly or leave it forever

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I use certain apps, such as things3 and Due for reminders

J'aurais utiliser cette appli en français. Je commence à peine à mettre en place des routines. Et je vois que j'ai beaucoup de travail.

Mostly during the night

I have a routine before going to bed after my shower. It allows me to do all the things I have to do daily for example clean the cat toilets and allows me to timebox. I have another one when I leave house to take everything I need like cleaning my teeth, put some clothes, badge, wallet, public transportation card… this way I can better estimate my morning routine and avoid to be late for the train! I use routinery app

With a family its hard to stay clean when their is no help

This app is a good idea but not fast or specific enough

Do that goes down to experience ultimately

Fear of another sacking

If I’m on my all of them but with someone none of them

I’m overwhelmed right now. Going through a divorce and having to sort out the house all by myself because he told me it’s my mess and stuff. He’s right. I was just diagnosed with ADHD two months ago and am medicated. I have made progress but it just seems like I should be doing more. 😩

My house has been remodelled, I feel exhausted and really don't know where to start.

I have to play music for my brain to get me going. Once I’ve found that tune then I’m able to clean.

I think it’s a role of the dice

For the worst is a pile of papers that need to be sorted. My first step is to put it upright in a box or a box. Then I can go through the papers, magazines and other things one after the other and, for example, put out all the magazines. This reduces the amount of paper and I find the important papers such as invoices and letters faster. Nevertheless, everything remains in the order in which the stack was created. This is important to me because I often remember at what depth of the pile a note was.

I feel like I have so many daily to-do list like I have a stack of daily to-do list and always like Okay I'm going to consolidate all of them and have like one major mass 500 to do's on a list and start working my way down the list I haven't got to that yet but I'm going to lol