4 Misconceptions About Organizing
4 Misconceptions About Organizing
With all the TV shows and articles about organizing and especially how to do it, people still carry misconceptions about it. The first time I meet someone who is especially interested in learning how to organize, I often have to dispel one or more of these misconceptions. I recently reread one of my favorite organizing books, Organizing From the Inside Out, by Julie Morgenstern. In it, she does a great job giving you another way of looking at those misconceptions.
Misconceptions About Organizing
- First Misconception: Organizing is a mysterious talent. Some lucky people are born with it, while others are left to suffer.
Actual fact is: Organizing is a skill.
- Second Misconception: Organizing is an overwhelming, hopeless chore.
True fact is: Organizing boils down to the same very simple, predictable process. You can master organization.
- Third Misconception: It’s impossible to stay organized.
A proven fact is: Organizing is sustainable if you build it around the way you think and are designed to grow and adapt to your life and work change.
- Fourth Misconception: Organizing is a nonproductive use of time.
A certain fact is: Those who are disorganized will feel overwhelmed, unsure of which way to turn, and flounder. It costs more time to be unorganized.
Do you have misconceptions about organizing?
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.