Top Ten Tips For Having Fun Organizing
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Has the 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 the 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 the color that you like the 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 the magic of a
rainbow.
2. Play. Sant (Pleasant)
Along with the new appealing folders instilling joy and renewal
and clearing old patterns, look at the objects that are in your
d?cor, e.g. pencil cup, paper trays, lamps, etc. Do you like
them? Do they make you smile each time you look at them? Frame
the photograph of your beloved with a frame that brings you
pleasure, or invest in the 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 the 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 the greater
effectiveness, and the satisfaction of knowing what you own, and
where it is!
6. Play. to Allow Win
That is where the goofy costume mentioned in #3 becomes really
meaningful! Halloween is Allow win: know that as you start this
new life of yours, there may just be the possibility of a
relapse, and that the wonderful joy just described might turn
again into sheer hopelessness. Should that moment hit, put those
glasses back on, and grab a mirror, quick! Your despair can be
seen as being as real, and as unreal as those glasses are,
guaranteed!
7. Puzzle Play
Since you have just become willing to relapse into your old
self, and have fun with it, you can also make a game out of any
challenge you may encounter. Treat it as a puzzle, as a game for
your mind to resolve. First focus on the solution, and then,
just like any other genius, give yourself some time to hear the
answer. It may be helpful to create a “Puzzle file” to be
visited in your Friday sessions.
8. Play. Music
Much has been said about the effect of music on reprogramming
the brain. Use it. Do your 15 minutes set while playing your
favorite tunes! In this manner, you will change your previous
thought forms on organizing to a mindset of appreciation,
synchronicity, and harmony.
9. Play. Decide
Do you remember being a child and playing Post Office, or
Grocery Store? Do you remember how you would just “decide” how
many stamps to buy, or bananas or cartoons of milk? Your piles
of paper are only decisions unmade, because you thought the game
was very serious, and that you could make “mistakes.” Become a
child again; give yourself to decide; this I keep, this I let
go! That I let go, and this I keep! And watch yourself becoming
lighter, and happier, and, also interestingly, way more secure
about yourself!
10. Play. Inspired!
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Mahalene now: you are on for the greatest adventure!
This piece was originally submitted by Mahalene Louis,
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About the author:
Mahalene, a native of France, began her career as a journalist
and teacher in Europe. She spent her first twenty years in the
US as a self-supporting artist. As she is in all accounts a
“true artist,” one of her greatest gifts as an inspiration
anchor is to offer “a new way to look at it,” which is greatly
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