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My 'clutter' corner.
Snowflake, Button (Gimme Gimmy -- from local Authors -- www.gimmygum.com ), Desktop Calendar (scrapbooking), Plants (see the H3 truck "off roading" in the plant), my clutter basket (Keepsake Quilting catalog prominently in front), my cell phone (getting recharged), and my ACS Daffodil Days notebook). Current issue of Johns Hopkins magazine under clutter basket -- article to be photocopied and mailed to Paul at Boot Camp.
These people threw nothing away !!! Sadly no real time to explore the gems in the house and the sun was to low down and some dodgy stairs , we wanted to reach the lakes
Under that mental clutter lies a powerful new YOU!
Here’s an exercise I call “distraction resolution.” It helps
you stay focused on what’s important while heightening
your congruency between activities and values,
as well as goals.
Here’s how you do it:
•Make a list of every single thing that’s taking up space
time in your mind, whether it’s personal, business,
physical, or financial; anything you did and feel guilty
about; or something you need to do a day, week, month,
or year from now. Jot down anything that’s distracting you
from being present in the here and now.
Follow your stream of consciousness and clear it out
of your mind by writing it down.
*Once you’re done—not while you’re writing, but
after you’ve spent about ten minutes getting it all out—look
at the list you’ve created and see if there’s anything in there
that’s junk.
Ask yourself. Is there anything here that I can’t do anything about?
Is there anything in my head that I can just get rid of?
•Now consider if there’s anyone whom you can
delegate the remainder to.
Or are you holding yourself back because you haven’t
been exercising the skill of delegation (whether that’s
because you’re unskilled or you don’t think there’s anyone
who can handle this for you ?
•If there are things there for you to do
Tthings that you know would be best done by you, and
you know that you can do something about them—write
your initials beside them and assign a date for beginning
that item.
Be realistic,
and if it’s a long-term project, go ahead and chunk
it down into smaller pieces, and decide to delegate
or date those pieces for yourself.
The follow-up is simple:
Once you’ve noticed the things that can be dumped, it’s
easy to just “take them out” of your mind.
And if you find yourself thinking about them again, you can
remind yourself: Oh yeah, that was one of those things that
I’m not going to do anything about. Next!
Then you can delegate those items you’ve chosen to,
and you can integrate your own tasks and projects into
whatever scheduling system you already use.
Then you can forget about all those items and focus on
what’s important to do today.
This is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness:
Efficiency means getting everything done that needs
doing in a timely and professional manner,
effectiveness means
doing only those things that are important enough to get done.
You can have both if you
(1) -align your activities, values, and goals;
(2) -delegate everything that wouldn’t wisely be
done by you;
(3) -dump anything that’s just “junk.”
With this exercise, you identify distractions, dumps,
delegations, do’s, and dates. You clear your mind
and create congruency between your actions and dreams.
I'm doing a lite version of the Apt Therapy kitchen cure. . .lite since we're still working on the kitchen and a total organizational overhaul would tip me over the edge, but some things need to go.
Three long weekends and I've still not managed to clear my desk. Oh well, back to work tomorrow so it will have to wait until the weekend!
This is my room before I came back to school. I literally could not walk in my room without stepping on something.