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Household Management: Run Your Home Like a Pro

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Household Management is what we do to keep our homes running.  It is everything that keeps our homes (and lives) functioning, useable, clean, orderly, and beautiful.  From the top down it looks like this: Household Management – Systems – Routines or Projects – Tasks. (graphic here)  Systems are like the machine that needs to be in place to get a job done, and they are always about effectiveness.  In other words, the machine is in place so that you can accomplish important … [Read more...] about Household Management: Run Your Home Like a Pro

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GAPS in Organization: Knowledge, Action, Belief

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I recently read this from Adrienne Dorison: “The GAP is the distance between your GOAL and the ACTION needed to make PROGRESS towards achieving it.  There are 3 areas you may have a GAP and need to fill -- know this BEFORE you make an investment.”  Then she lists the three GAPs as knowledge, action, and belief.  This is huge! Identifying your GAPs can help you to understand why you fail at organization and plan ways to fill those GAPs. Lack of Knowledge A lack of knowledge can exist in three … [Read more...] about GAPS in Organization: Knowledge, Action, Belief

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Pile Analysis: 5 Reasons You Pile Things

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Back in October I excavated one of my (many) piles to get a sense of exactly what ends up in my piles and why I was making piles. From a single pile that had been sitting on my bedroom floor for several months, there were approximately 70 (!) items, including sticky notes, magazines, paint chips for a project, mail, old math manipulatives, a spare button packet, receipts, recipes, mail, file folders, notes, and (strangely) old lenses from my glasses. I actually listed out each item as I went … [Read more...] about Pile Analysis: 5 Reasons You Pile Things

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The Balance Between Housework and Home Life

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How Do You Balance Your Work Life and Your Home Life? This blog is written in response to a question posted at lifehack.org.  The question was: “How do you balance your work life and your home life?”  Since my work is my house, I think the balance between these is mostly a matter of seeing the difference between “work in the home (or housework)" and “home life.”  Housework is what I do to maintain the physical property such as cleaning, laundry, buying groceries, repairing items, and so forth.  … [Read more...] about The Balance Between Housework and Home Life

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Procrastination Remedies: What to do when it’s too boring

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In a previous post about Procrastination: Why We Put Things Off, I shared some of the reasons for putting off getting our houses in order.  These included things like it’s boring, I’m totally overwhelmed, I suck at this, and I’m afraid.  Today let’s look at some practical solutions for the issue of boredom.  The fact is, cleaning and organizing are not the most fun things ever for a lot of us.  We need to find ways to make this more fun and interesting, so here are a few ideas to try. 1. … [Read more...] about Procrastination Remedies: What to do when it’s too boring

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What I Value at Just an Organized Home

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Here is a laundry-list of things I value (in no particular order). Do-it-yourself Cleverness Positivity Forcing Yourself Production over Perfection Systems Customization Learning Pioneering This is not an exhaustive list, but it is what quickly comes to mind when I think about how to run a home. These are guiding principles here at Just an Organized Home.  So here is a brief glimpse into my thinking about things I have come to value over the years, … [Read more...] about What I Value at Just an Organized Home

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