Done Is Better Than Perfect! - a Messies Anonymous slogan -------------------------------------- Contents of New Ideas for Today 1. Message of the Day – OVERDOING 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 8. More Info ------------------------------------- **The Messies Anonymous website, www.messies.com, is back up! Thank you for your patience.** **Learn how to get organized with Marsha's (FREE) YouTube videos! ** ***If you are having problems with Yahoo Groups mailing, you can subscribe to https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3490310591173841338#allposts to receive the exact same messages.*** ------------------------------------ 1. Message of the Day OVERDOING We overdo. We apply this approach to many things. We overdo on clothing. We want things to be perfect for every occasion so we must have a great variety in order to have just the right thing. We need the right purse size, style, and color for every outfit and occasion. We overdo on planning and tend to do too many jobs from our Flipper or whatever approach we take for scheduling. Once you have your totally complete list (which may knock you to your knees when you see it all written down), go back and delete as much as you can. Cut out half of them, or even eighty percent. If you did only those few that are left consistently, your house would probably take a giant leap forward. If we are going to write a book, we overdo there too and gather more research than we can handle. If we cook or sew, we accumulate tons of recipes, patterns, material, and the like. We have too many hobbies and take on too many jobs. So we buy too much. We think we need exactly the right size refrigerator dishes so we gather a lot of different sizes (and plenty of them, to meet our possible need.) We run out of places to store them. When they are stored, we have trouble accessing them and finding the matching tops. All of these efforts are because we want to do everything so very right. But the result of all this overdoing can be oh-so-wrong. Remember the K.I.S.S. slogan. Keep It Super Simple. Fight the urges that lead you to excess. Less often really is more. Don't try to do everything perfectly or have everything you think you might need. Be casual and, to borrow a Nike slogan --- just do it. -------------------------------------- 2. Did You Know? The NEW and IMPROVED K.I.S.S. Flipper Have you ordered yours? The K.I.S.S.(Keep It Super Simple) 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. free BONUS: Once you order, you will also receive the "K.I.S.S. eBooklet" via email to learn the "Hows and Whys" of the system while you wait for your K.I.S.S. Flipper, so you will be ready to start the day your K.I.S.S. Flipper arrives. Introductory price $26.00 US postage included Go to the link below to order you NEW K.I.S.S. Flipper today. http://www.messies.com ------------------------------------------ 3. Habit of the Day Print the To-Do List as described in many Messies Anonymous books. Free, easy to use and available at ------------------------------------ 4. Family Reminder of the Day In our family, we make our beds before we leave our room in the morning. In our family, we put dishes into the dishwasher, not the sink. -------------------------------------- 5. Quote of the Day Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Messies engage in magical thinking. They hope the problem will solve itself. Don't wait for the problem to solve itself. You do it. -------------------------------------- 6. Question of the Day How do you use the quotations? Do you ever post the quotations on the wall or write them in a book to refer to later? What else do you do with them? Tell us by posting on Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady -------------------------------------- 8. Extra Help Are you still interested in getting organized? Did you know that there is a hands-on program to help people just like you get more organized? It’s conducted virtually by teleconference and gets you to make progress every single session. To learn more about it, just click here. Click here If you'd like to speak to an organizer about your clutter problem. --------------------------------------- 9. More Info 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 ---------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------- 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. 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. Don't forget the daily reminders!!! The daily Reminders and How-To's are found on our website at "How to Begin" http://www.messies.com ------------------------------------------ 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. Never underestimate the inevitability of gradualness. Anonymous 81 © Sandra Felton 2010 THE ORGANIZER LADY® is a trademark of Sandra Felton, founder of Messies Anonymous.