Ideas for Better Personal Organization

Personal Help for Organizing
FlyLady is a personal online coach that help people gain control of their lives by helping them organize it. She offers cleaning and organizing tips with humor, and a daily email that helps people set up routines and put their lives in order. Her lessons include shining kitchen sinks, de-cluttering 15 minutes a day, taking regular breaks, getting dressed to the shoes, and the site offers you information to build your own control journal. She offers a vacation planning and packing list and an evacuation preparedness sheet. A shop and library complete the site, offering products for home organization such as calendar pages, dusters, pens and home organization books.

Personal Organization on Oprah.com
Oprah Winfrey's site Oprah.com has several good articles on personal organization. Just search the site for the keyword organizing. At the time of this writing we find such topics as 3 ways to train your brain to get more done in less time, organizing for weight loss, organizing secrets from a Manhattan design guru, 5 things a professional organizer wants you to know, children and clutter, 10 habits of highly organized people, organizing for social change, how to cheat at organizing, organizing your work life, and even organizing your love life.

Get Organized Now
The author of Finally Organized, Finally Free shares tips and more free resources for individuals to organize their homes, offices and persona lives. Topics include a forum, past newsletters, easy organizers, a free organizing idea pack, organizing information, easy bill paying, a marketing guide, a free newsletter, a holiday planning, a reading clinic, e-courses on personal organization, an organizers guide, articles, cool tools and more. A monthly organizing checklist and help for professional organizers is also available from founder Maria Gracia.

How to Organize Your Life
This article on the Ask Men website is filled with insights, advice, tips and tricks for getting your life back on track and keeping it there. The opening paragraph on the site sums up personal organization quite nicely: It's one thing if you never misplace anything; it's another to be an organized individual. The difference lies between knowing how to get by, and knowing how to surpass your potential. By being organized, you'll not only be managing things, you'll end up on top of them by becoming more productive. Tips for keeping your life and your office organized include make a simple filing system and use it! Open mail and deal with it as soon as possible and throw out junk mail as quickly as possible. The final piece of advice is simply to keep an eye on things (literally). Make a point of looking at your work areas and filing or tossing out anything that's out of place. By simply keeping up with things, by never letting even small things get out of hand and grow into huge messes, it is easy to keep your life, your home and your work neatly organized and easily accessible.