After my article planning your goals and stick to them I knew I needed to get started on my goals for 2008 or I would be talking the talk but not walking the walk. One of my important goals for this year is to get organized. Over the last 2 or 3 years I start organizing then half way through I lose steam and slowly but surely give up and never finish organizing. Right now my files are all over, I have stacks of record keeping boxes full of magazines or books, my clothes are all over and are not hung up. Also one thing that really is annoying me is my desk; right now it is covered with papers, pens, and various crap. I have put up with it but slowly it is really starting to annoy me.
When I get home from work I normally sit down and my desk and get online to check my email and rss feeds. Normally after sitting down I empty my pockets out on my desk. As you can tell it only takes a few days before it’s a mess.
So my first small goal is to get my desk organized and I will move on from that. On my way home I stopped by Office Depot and bought some organizing goodies. I picked up some pens, pen holder, 10 folder expanding file folder, and 3 tray paper organizer. I also stopped by a Barnes and Nobles to get a moleskin notebook.
After returning home with my goodies it was time to get started. I have a bad habit of using sticky notes to jot down random things but never throw them away. I know this is a bad habit and read online about moleskin notebooks they seemed like a great replacement for me to write down my thoughts and replace my sticky note addiction. I started by throwing all of my sticky notes away and jotted any notes I needed on a sheet of paper. Just throwing all of my notes away made a huge dent in my desk, I would say it was half way cleaned already.
My next step was to take my items and group them into smaller piles. Once I had them into piles life was looking good my desk actually looked presentable but I was not done yet. I took my receipts and statements and moved them in to the expanding file folder. I took my bills and put them in my top tray in the 3 tray paper organizer. My dvd’s and games went to the holders I already had setup. The last thing to do was collect all of the loose change and put that in a container I have for loose change.
One of the smaller parts of my getting organized goal is now. If you have started working on your goals I would like to hear them. Lets keep each other motivated to get these things done.
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