I'm a fairly organized person because I juggle so many things--work, volunteer commitments, freelancing, family obligations and so much more. But we recently bought a new house, and I can't seem to get myself organized. I have stuff unpacked but it's in piles everywhere because we just don't have the right furniture, yet, for the house to make all our storage work. So, it's driving me a bit bonkers.
A new school year is fast approaching here, so I need to get the house, myself, the hubby and family organized for the sake of my sanity.
We are having a yard sale this weekend, which will help get rid of some of the clutter--outgrown clothes, furniture that we had in the old house but that doesn't quite work--wrong style, too large, too old for the new house, dorm fridges and decor items, etc.
I also went out and bought a new planner today--the July to June kind that works well for school years rather than calendar years. I find these just work best for me. Ironically, I have a Droid phone, so I keep it synched with my gmail calendar, so all my personal appointments are on my phone which also conveniently sends me reminders. But I find that I need something to write things down on so I can make notes for some things as well. I also bought a second large desk pad calendar to coordinate family dates/things and volunteer activity dates this way I can have the entire family's schedule in one place at a glance (again, even though it's easily accessible on my phone since the hubby and the one kiddo share their gmail/Google calendars with me).
I have great goals for this weekend. Along with stripping wallpaper in our stairwell and upper hallway, I am cleaning out my office that has too many piles of stuff on my desk. It seems that if people in the family can't figure out where something goes, it lands in my office either on the bookshelves, on the floor in a stack, or on my desk. I can't actually see the surface of my desk for the stuff on it. This ABSOLUTELY has to change and change in the next three and a half weeks, or I will go mad once the school year starts.
I get overwhelmed when facing a large task like that as well, but you just have to pick a starting point and get to it.....otherwise, it just doesn't get done.