I have an incredible ability to organize other people. I can clean up someone's house, organize their office, color coordinate their binders, and alphabetize their bookshelf, but when it comes to my personal life I have the tendency to be more like Pig Pen than Martha Stewart. Don't get me wrong, I am very organized in business situations. Nothing gives me more pleasure than creating a database binder complete with dividers and a color coded index, or getting a new desk organizer for all my pens and pencils. In fact, I've been made fun of on numerous occasions for my obsession with organization. For some reason, when it comes to my clothes, my shoes, my purse, and my house in general, my organization obsession just doesn't carry over.
This brings me to my next 1% Project Goal, to be more organized in my personal life. I'm hoping that if I can create a clutter free zone in my home life and surroundings, the rest of my personal life will fall into place. I know this organization will not take place over night, but I need to take small steps and create habits that will keep me organized for the rest of my life. Today I took my 1% step towards organization. The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was to grab my handy dandy giant carry all bag I use to haul all my junk around and dump everything out on my bed. It's amazing the junk I found in the bottom of my bag. I found old gum wrappers, money encrusted in sand and gum, old receipts, broken pens, even moldy cranberries. How gross is all of that? Clearly it was time for me to clean out my bag, no matter how small of a step cleaning out the bag was, I feel like I took a step towards not being a member of hoardahaulics anonymous. It felt really good when I was finished to turn a bag where once I had no idea where anything was, to a bag where I now know where everything is down to my pens.
Now it's time organize more and more of my life so I can officially resign from my post of the president hoardahaulics anonymous.
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