{"id":7525,"date":"2017-07-27T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2017-07-02T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T12:05:06","slug":"how-do-i-get-started-organizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/how-do-i-get-started-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Small Go Big"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How can SMALL and BIG be used together for organizing? \u00a0When we think of these opposites, can we use these together in getting organized? \u00a0Well here’s how!<\/p>\n

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Organizing and productivity are overwhelming.\u00a0The most frequent question is how do I get started? \u00a0Whether your view is a cluttered desk or home, it’s not clear where, when or how to get started. And what about the next steps? Is that\u00a0starting with the small of units, like organizing your paper clips or the shoes in your closet? \u00a0Or do you go big with the big stuff? Here’s answers to these 2 important questions.<\/p>\n

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Start small<\/h3>\n

I love the question, how do I eat an elephant? Its the analogy I use most often in presentations. \u00a0Of course the answer is one bite at a time! \u00a0It’s in getting start in a small way that gets you started at all. \u00a0It doesn’t matter if you take a nibble at the trunk or the foot, starting with a nibble gets you started. Your nibble in your home could be the junk drawer in your kitchen, the floor of a closet, the shelf in a linen closet or the papers in your kitchen. \u00a0Nibbling can be an amount of time, like only 15 minutes. \u00a0A nibble can be a number, like picking up 3 items to donate. \u00a0Your office nibbling can be your inbox, a bookcase, or a file drawer. \u00a0Decide what small looks and feels like to you then set a date on your calendar to commit.<\/p>\n

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Go big<\/h3>\n

Look around at your home or office. \u00a0What’s the big stuff in your way? \u00a0We organizers call it macro organizing. \u00a0Start with the big stuff when you keep on organizing. \u00a0It’s not the time to launch into complex sort ing of your stuff. It’s also not the time to go to that shoebox full of small random items. \u00a0Work on the big stuff first. \u00a0 Big stuff open up space. That’s the space you see and feel. \u00a0It’s the big stuff that helps you break through being stuck and you feel the openness of your space. \u00a0Take a big picture with your papers too. \u00a0What are the big categories you can sort? \u00a0Broad categories make it easier to work through tedious papers.<\/p>\n

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Is this a new perspective for you? \u00a0Have you thought you needed hours to organize and never started? \u00a0Have you walked about from your papers after creating an overly complicated system? \u00a0Here’s a new way to make organizing happen for you.<\/p>\n

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Want to learn more organizing and productivity tricks? \u00a0Join my newsletter<\/a>\u00a0here.<\/p>\n

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