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Monday, October 19, 2020
PERSONAL LOSS and AUTOMATIC M.A.
Battle Cry: Shout with me and the 14,480 others who receive this message: "Stow as you go!"
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Never underestimate the inevitability of
gradualness.
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Contents of New Ideas for Today
1. Message of the Day - PERSONAL LOSS
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 - AUTOMATIC
8. More Info
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1. Message of the Day Personal Loss and Accumulated Clutter
Sometimes messiness gets worse after a personal loss. Often it is a loved one.
Sometimes it is after a fire or a financial reversal. The person may have been
quite tidy before or may have tended to be a little messy. Now, however, the
house goes from a little messy to
disastrous. The problem is usually because they begin to resist getting rid of
anything. Having suffered a loss that was out of their control, they now go
overboard to make sure they have any and every thing they may ever want or need
in the future. Nobody can keep an overabundance of things and still maintain a
nice home. You will wear yourself out if you try to do it and you will sink into
despair if you don't. The tragedy is that by keeping an abundance of individual
items so you can hold on to everything you might need in the future, you lose
the one large and very valuable item that you really need on a daily basis, a
charming and supportive home.
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2. Did You Know?
For your information. If you are interested, in a professional organizer
who likes to work with folks who struggle with organizing, check out the web
site for the Institute for Challenging Disorganization
http://www.challengingdisorganization.org/ For a referral to a professional
organizer in your area go to http://www.napo.net which is the website for the
National Association of Professional Organizers.
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3. Habit of the Day JUST DO IT
- Do not wait till you feel like it. Just move your body through the motions
like a robot if that is all you can do. Face the fact that some things do not
inspire. It is nice to want to. But do not wait for the humor to hit you. Just
do it.
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4. Family Reminder of the Day
In our family, we put what we need the next day by the front door the night before.
In our family, we don't drop our things when we come in the door. We take them
and put them where they belong.
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5. Quote
of the Day Every minute you procrastinate putting it up is a cluttered minute.
(See FROM THE TRENCHES below.)
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6.
Question of The Day If you could add another family reminder, what would it be?
Send your suggestion to the address below: felton.messies@gmail.com with the
heading New Family Reminder. Tell us by posting on
Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady
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7. From the Trenches AUTOMATIC BEHAVIOR
As for the "30 Second Rule", and "Do It Now", etc. It works! When I see that a
piece of trash, a piece of the wrapper for a band-aid(!), has missed the trash
can and landed on the floor beside it, I immediately bend over and pick it up.
Before I changed my attitude, I would have thought "I'll get that, later".
Except that later never seemed to arrive and even if it did, that one tiny piece
of trash on the floor would have multiplied into an unsightly mess and it sure
would take more than a second or two to clean up. For me, it's all a part of
cleaning up after myself, putting things where they belong when I'm done with
them. That habit is making a very big difference. You can do this. You just need
time to build good habits. Remember when you were learning how to drive a car?
In my case, I wondered why they bothered putting a radio in a car, because you'd
never take your hands off the wheel! Now, you get in the car, fasten your seat
belt, check mirrors and gas, start up, and away you go. And, you don't have to
stop and think about HOW to do any of that or even IF you SHOULD do any of that.
You just do it, automatically. That did not happen the first time you tried or
even the first lots of times. I think we waste too much precious time arguing
with ourselves! Whining to ourselves. Complaining to ourselves. Justifying
inaction to ourselves. Honestly, can you imagine how long it would take us to
get the car into the street if we argued/ whined/complained that we had to check
for gas (why do I always have to get the gas? Whine. My dh (ds,dd) should do it.
Whine. LOL We need to practice our good habits over and over until we just do
them without thinking about them. Then, we can just get the jobs done and move
on with other parts of our lives. Fifteen minutes at a time. Babysteps. FLO
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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. 103 © Sandra Felton
2010 The Organizer Lady® is a registered trademark of Sandra Felton, founder of
Messies Anonymous.
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