GOOD ENOUGH and MIRACLE! "Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries." Mark Twain If this were true in Mark Twain's day, it is doubly true in ours. Let's defy this saying by limiting ourselves and subtracting instead of multiplying. Sandra Felton, THE ORGANIZER LADY® ---------------------------------------- Contents of New Ideas for Today 1. Message of the Day - "Good Enough" 2. Did You Know? 3. Habit of the Day 4. Family Reminder of the Day 5. Quote of the Day 6. Question of The Day 7. From the Trenches - Miracle 8. More Info -------------------------------------- **Learn how to get organized with Marsha's (FREE) YouTube videos!** **The SOS Organizing program is for those who want to get organized, and save both time and money. Only $37 per month. Click here for more information.** ***If you are having problems with this Yahoo Groups mailing, you can click here to subscribe on Blogger to receive the exact same messages every day.*** Reminder: You can edit your membership at Yahoo Groups home page https://groups.yahoo.com/neo or to unsubscribe, click on the word "unsubscribe" at the very bottom of this post if it arrived in your email inbox ---------------------------------------- 1. Message of the Day WHEN "GOOD ENOUGH" IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH Perfectionism is a hindrance to organizing. Most of the time "just do it" works just fine. Don't get hung up with cleaning the oven perfectly or spending time whitening your shoe laces while the house is cluttered and messy around you. Leave unimportant details behind as you concentrate on getting the big job done. But there is one exception where you need to pay attention to detail. Once you have gotten the house pretty much under control organizationally and are shifting into the beauty mode, do not carelessly fail to finish the project completely. Do not leave your purse in the living room chair even though that is where you used to put it. Remove the pile of mail off the table. The beautiful effect of all your work is blunted by just a few carelessly placed items that you would not have worried about in previous times. Raise your standards. Simply put, when you have gotten this far, go all the way to make your house sparkle with beautiful clear surfaces. -------------------------------------- 2. Did You Know? The NEW and IMPROVED KEEP IT SUPER SIMPLE Flipper is available! The K.I.S.S. Flipper has fresh ideas on how to move through your home, day by day, room by room, with simple choices for maintenance and organizing. It will gently guide you through the process of creating clear and shining surfaces throughout out your home! With the NEW K.I.S.S. Flipper all you have to do to is FLIP through the spiral-bound, sequentially numbered, full-color job idea cards. No more sliding cards into sleeves; the NEW K.I.S.S. Flipper is ready to use out of the package. When you are ready to begin, make a few simple choices each day from one card and you will be on your way to a clutter-free and well maintained home. Introductory price $26.00 US postage included Available NOW !!! Go to the link below to order you NEW K.I.S.S. Flipper today. http://www.messies.com ------------------------------------------------------ 3. Habit of the Day Make your bed every day, every day, every day. No more tangled, messy sheets, pillows, and covers casting an ugly pall over the whole house. Instead, you will have a beautiful neat aura emanating from the bedroom. Don't make it perfect. Just make it. -------------------------------------- 4. Family Reminder of the Day In our family, we move the garbage cans out of sight when they are emptied at the curb. In our family, we hang up the towels neatly after bathing. --------------------------------------- 5. Quote of the Day It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. Jenny Craig -------------------------------------- 6. Question of the Day Have you chosen one of the suggestions given in the Message of the Day? How has it worked for you? Tell us by posting on Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady -------------------------------------- 7. From the Trenches - MIRACLE I left the house this morning with tears in my ears, tears of joy and amazement. On this Friday morning, I looked around the house just before I left and realized that I could have someone over RIGHT NOW and not have to be embarrassed about the condition of my house. Folks could drop in and I could say "Come on in!" without following it with "Ignore the house-it's a mess." They could sit down in an empty chair at the clear dining room table and have a cup of coffee. They could take their coffee into the living room and sit on a clear sofa and put their coffee on a coaster on the coffee table-RIGHT NOW, without me having to move anything, AND on a Friday, when the house is usually at its worst. This is nothing short of miraculous. It isn't perfect, and I'm not done yet, but a major milestone has been reached. Grateful in Texas -------------------------------------- 8. More Info This is a simple program. We stick with the basics as they are presented in these messages. Keep reading. Keep adding one part of the program at a time. The daily Reminders and How-To's are found on our website at "How to Begin" http://www.messies.com Repetition is important. Forward to friends if desired but not to other sites. Read this whole posting or only what you can take in today, then delete it. ------------------------------------------------- 9, Extra Help Stop letting clutter get the upper hand; there is hope Click here to learn about the Organizing Mastery class where you can get rid of clutter forever. Click here If you'd like to speak to an organizer about your clutter problem. ----------------------------------------------- 10. Free YouTube Videos Learn how to get organized with Marsha's (FREE) YouTube videos! ----------------------------------------------- Are you at home thinking about the organizing you need to get done? Take a look at our SOS program designed to jumpstart your organizing immediately. Buy now: https://sortitout.thinkific.com/courses/SOS-Organizing-Program For more information: http://www.sortitout.net/sos-solutions-solutions-program-sf MESSIES ANONYMOUS SLOGAN Please memorize this slogan and post it on your wall. The secret to success is making very small, yet very consistent, changes. Or to make it short; Baby steps, baby steps in the right direction. 115 © Sandra Felton 2005 THE ORGANIZER LADY® is a registered trademark of Sandra Felton, founder of Messies Anonymous.