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… Read More
GAPS in Organization: Knowledge, Action, Belief
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… Read More
Pile Analysis: 5 Reasons You Pile Things
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… Read More
