RIGHT NOW and WHY DECLUTTER Start maintaining as soon as you start improving. Guard any clear space you create. Avoid the "clutter and clean" roller coaster. It takes grit and focus but you can do it. Keep moving forward. THE ORGANIZER LADY® Sandra Felton -------------------------------------- Contents of New Ideas for Today 1. Message of the Day 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 8. More Info -------------------------------------- **Learn how to get organized with Marsha's (FREE) YouTube videos!** **Get 12 in-depth organizing tutorials and workbooks. 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.*** --------------------------------------- 1. Message of the Day RIGHT NOW As you may recall, a powerful habit for change we mentioned before is "When you get it out, put it back." This slogan needs one more additional important word to make it really powerful. Because it is so important, I will risk repeating myself. "When you get it out, put it back RIGHT AWAY." Avoid: - I'm too busy now - I'll get right back to it - I'll do it later - Right there is okay for now - I'll do it in a minute. - I'll be using it again soon so I'll leave it out. Clutter is the result of many little postponed actions. Before you know it, many little I'll-do-it-later piles make our houses messy and we hardly know how it happened. When you read this message, say loudly with all the others across the world who receive it, STOW AS YOU GO! I wish we could shout it loud enough so we could hear a chorus of habit change flowing west across the world with the time change. -------------------------------------- 2. Did You Know? No it's not an April Fool's joke. My book, 5 Days to a Clutter Free House, is available in ebook for just $8.99 (or less) from almost all online book distributors. Click here to find it on Amazon, or you can find it at Kindle UK, Nook, CBD, Kobo, Apple, or Vyrso. Pick your favorite one and enjoy. -------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------- 3. Habit of the Day FOLLOW THE RULE OF TEN (MINUTES) Set a timer for ten minutes and attack a hot spot with a vengeance. Some call it The Ten Minute Tidy. -------------------------------------- 4. Family Reminder of the Day In our family, we put dishes into the dishwasher, not the sink. In our family, we take responsibility for completing the chores assigned to us. -------------------------------------- 5. Quote of the Day "Time is not the issue in organizing; commitment is." Sandra Felton -------------------------------------- 6. Question of the Day What are YOUR reasons for decluttering? (Check out "Trenches" below.) Tell us by posting on Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friends-of-The-Organizer-Lady -------------------------------------- 7. From the Trenches WHY DECLUTTER? Decluttering will give you more free time - you won't spend time looking for things. Also it is a great legacy to your family. If and when something happens to you, you will not transfer the burden of clutter to your friends and family. Only the really important and representative things will be there – there is enough emotional clutter for others to deal with without having to sift through each and every scrap of paper and nook and cranny. It's a true gift. Thanks to Laurie -------------------------------------- 8. Extra Help Are you tired of the never-ending clutter? The Organizing Mastery program has helped many people get rid of clutter for good. It is done through a weekly virtual program that’s hands-on and gets results. 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 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 ------------------------------------------ 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. 98 © Sandra Felton 2010 THE ORGANIZER LADY® is a trademark of Sandra Felton, founder of Messies Anonymous