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Table of Contents:

Introduction                                                                x

 PART I - The Who, What, and Why!?

Chapter 1 - Do I Really Need to Be Organized?       1

Chapter 2 - If Being Organized is So Good for Me,

     Why is it So Hard?                                     7

I Want Everything Organized!    

     Why is Getting Organized So Hard?  

     So Am I Lazy?

     Isn’t Having a Clean House

      the Same as Being Organized?        

Doesn’t Everyone Want to be Organized?         

What is the End Goal of Being Organized?        

Chapter 3 - Before You Start Organizing      19

What is Important to You?          

Why is it Important to You? And, is it Still?        

Different Phases in Life  

What Would Your Perfect Day be Right Now?   

What is Reality?  

Unintended Consequences         

Write Down Your Goals 

Personal Goals   

Having It All       

Hold Off Just a Little Longer      

Weekly Assessment Worksheet    

Chapter 4 - Go Ahead and Get Started—

          Let’s Organize (Not Really!)    37

It Seemed Like the Right Thing at the Time        

It Can’t Be Done?!         

To Do Lists vs. I Did it Lists!      

Goals      

Paper vs. Plastic 

In the Morning and Before Bed  

Train Yourself to Deal with Interruptions Well   

Be Able to Switch Gears Often

   and Without Hesitation

Use Pockets of Time to Your Advantage

You Do Not Feel You Deserve to

   Take a Break or Have Fun      

Doing Things You Want to Do Takes Less Time—

   Than Doing Things You Don’t Want To Do    

Take Small Steps Some Days and Leaps on Others       

 
Chapter 5 - When it ALL Goes Backwards! 53

Was it Really That Important?    

Perhaps it Was Important and Now it is Not      

Intentional Chaos

I Can’t Remember          

But It’s Free        

STRESS  

Procrastination   

Failure    

Giving Up           

Waiting   

PART II - The Specifics of Where, When, and How!?

Chapter 6 - Organizing Belongings   81

Decide on Your Idea of Perfection         

  The Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Closets          

     Clothing Closets         

     Bathrooms      

     Bathroom Towels and Linen Closets 

   Collections that Have Run Their Course         

The Kitchen        

     Cupboards     

     Going Through the Pantry     

     Refrigerator and Freezer       

     Freezer           

     Refrigerator and Freezer Maintenance          

The Kids and Puppies (and Cats, too?)

   Children’s Rooms, Play Areas, and Pet Toys  

     Toy Boxes       

     To Go Bags for Kids  

     Pet Toys         

Other Various Home Organizational Needs      

     Holiday Organization

     Vehicles          

     Moving and Storage   

     Avoid the Garage Sales—Unless You Can Handle…

     Legal Documents (Personal) 

     Personal Documents Which Have

                   Past the Statute of Limitations          

     Magazines      

     Replace it or Forget About it?

   Organizing Belongings in Summary    

Chapter 7 - Organizing Time (The Heart of the Matter)      115

Scheduling          

Stacking  

Sequentially        

Systematically     

Systems   

Stopping  

Sucking Up Time

Scheduling Others          

Sharing   

Soothing  

Organizing Time in Summary    

Chapter 8 - Daily Timesheets--

 (Don't Worry You Won’t Need to do These Everyday)        141

Narrative of the Daily Timesheet

Budget/Actual/Variance    

Daily Timesheet  

PART III - Specialty Areas

Chapter 9 - Organizing Electronics   157

If You Are Creating a Whole New File Structure

Organizing E-mails        

Statute of Limitations for Electronic Documents

Contacts  

Calendar 

Software Programs and Hardware        

Security Questions          

Networking and Wi-Fi    

Organizing Electronics in Summary       

Chapter 10 - Organizing Offices        191

Telecommuting   

Home Office       

Breaking Your Files into Quadrants       

Cubicles and Shared Office Space          

Home but Not an Office  

Scanners, Shredders, and Facsimiles     

Important Legal Documents       

Both Home and Office Ideas      

Labels for Year End        

Year End Cleaning         

Labeling Your Files for Storage 

Filing Your Information  

What to Keep on Your Desk       

Scanning Documents      

Organizing Large Stacks of Papers        

At the End of Each Day  

Take a Video       

Organizing Offices in Summary 

Chapter 11 - Organizing Projects      213

Projects In General        

What Makes a Good Plan?         

Realistic Time Expectations        

Time Commitments When Others Report to You

Time Commitments When Others Do NOT Report to You         

Putting your plan into place when it’s just you

           (or you are part of the bigger project)  

What About When YOU Get Off Track? 

Breaks and Mini-breaks  

Stress During a Project  

Celebrate Your Accomplishments           

Delays     

  Events You May Not Think of as Projects         

Networking         

Dinner Parties    

Holiday and Christmas Shopping           

Organizing Projects in Summary

Chapter 12 - Organizing Travel         235

Creating an Itinerary      

Airline Travel      

Cruise Line Travel          

Driving Travel    

Cosmetics and Toiletries 

Where to Eat Breakfast? 

Trash and Receipts         

Organizing Travel in Summary  

In Conclusion - Now That You are Organized         249

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Pockets of Time

We all have pockets of time that come into our lives and we have the option to use them or waste them. If you aren’t sure that you have pockets of time:

• Do you ever find yourself waiting on hold for more than a minute?
• Do you wait in line at the store for more than a minute?
• Do you work out on a treadmill, bike or elliptical machine?
• Do you ever find yourself in the waiting room of the doctor’s, dentist, salon, or similar?
• Do you ever find yourself waiting on someone at a restaurant to arrive?

How do you use these pockets of time? Checking your phone for social media messages? Check e-mails (10 times in 10 minutes!) What if you made a list of things you could do with each of these pockets of time and try to memorize them; here are some of mine.

• On hold – write my next blog, Facebook, or Twitter posting. Go through my inbox of mail, update my budget, read some instructions that I have been meaning to do.

• Waiting in line at the store – I try not to wait in line, but if I must I work on my list to do for the day, week, or month. Either in my head or on my phone calendar.

• Working out – Catch up on news stories on my iPad, listen to my iPod either something I downloaded that is motivational or educational. Or something I added myself; recently I am taking a French class—I know that sounds pretentious but it is kind of fun! (Doing things with our pockets of time do not need to always be productive—they can be just fun!)

• Waiting rooms – Are perfect for reading either magazine articles, books, or the latest news. You can bring a magazine or book with your or have them on your tablet.

• Waiting for someone at the restaurant – First I ask to go ahead and be seated if possible, that way I can be comfortable and check out the menu, maybe even get something to start with while I wait. But more importantly I use the time with a combination of all of the above!

So when you encounter your pockets of time remember this…15 minutes a day equals over 91 hours a year, how do you want to spend your pockets of time?

Sherri Sue Fisher, author of TimerDiet

   and to be released in just a few short days TimerOrganizer!!

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How to Avoid Failure?!

Failure Avoidance

Don’t we all want to avoid failure? I know of no one who says, “I want to try this and I hope it fails.” But we all know failure is a possibility in anything and everything. Whether it is our relationships, raising our children, keeping our jobs, but just as importantly—making our dreams come true. We could decide to not get into serious relationships, have any children, not care about having a job, and never think about our dreams. But isn’t that failure in and of itself?

Not Living

Isn’t not living our life the way we think it should be failure in and of itself? Why do we have dreams? Not everyone has the same dream; so they appear to be unique to each one of us. When we have a dream and we push it aside we are not living the life that appears to be our innermost desire.

Fear of Failure

We sometimes confuse fear of failure with failure. We think if we have fear then we obviously were not meant to do what our hearts desires are. But fear is just that, fear—you know the acronym F-antasized, E-vents, A-ppearing, R-eal. I prefer fictitious rather than fantasized. Most people who do public appearances of any kind will tell you that they normally feel fear right before they go on stage. But yet they still go on stage and as soon as they begin, the fear usually goes away. Why? Because the F-antansy is now real and the reality is not that bad! No one is booing, yelling, or asking for their money back (usually!) The audience is rooting for you, clapping their hands that you are onstage and excited to be there…so the fear goes away.

Change Your Fear

Think about whatever you want being successful! You may think that you don’t know that this is true. Well that is true. But you also don’t know that it is false. So if you are going to err, err on the side of thinking you will succeed, not on the side that you will fail. Either way you are guessing! I am pretty sure that if you really do fail, you will have time to deal with that failure if that times comes, why start dealing with failure before it even happens?

So wish me luck on the eve of the submission of my second book, TimerOrganizer! I am excited, nervous, and of course fearful. But at this point I might as well smile, know I did a great job in showing the best way to organize your life, and let the fates do their thing!  Thanks!!!

Sherri Sue Fisher, author of TimerDiet and to be released oh so very soon, TimerOrganizer

www.timerorganizer.com

Picture It

Can You Picture it?

Can you picture it?

Is there something in your life that you want changed? Or is there a goal that you want to achieve? What is the most important thing to do in achieving it? (Other than reading my book coming out this month TimerOrganizer—shameless plug). You need to Picture It. You need to picture it with gratefulness, not hope; appreciation, not anxiety. If you can’t picture “it” this way, perhaps it is not your true desire. Maybe it is someone else’s or societies. If something is your true desire you feel at ease and excited.

Are You Prepared?

If what you want requires preparation, then get going! This is really a trick question, since I cannot think of anything that you want, that you don’t currently have that does not require preparation. If you don’t know off hand what you need to do to prepare for what you want then take a pen and paper sit down and write what you think you may need to do. Then go research what you need to do to get you there! (were you close?)

Make a Plan!

Now you know what you need to do to prepare yourself for what you want; so go make a plan! How long will it take? How much free time do you have to devote to it? How much will it cost? Do you need to get sponsors? Create a timeline and make a plan—be sure to include some extra “secret cushion time” that I discuss in further detail in TimerOrganizer.

Now Make it Happen!!

It may seem like you have done a lot already and you are tired…but this is just the beginning. Now is the time to do you what you said you would do! Try it for just one day; make your plan for one day as easy as you possibly can so you can insure success. (This will make more sense if you read my book TimerOrganizer) Rest assured you will increase your productivity, right now you want to learn how to truly appreciate the good feeling of accomplishment!

Ok, well I can’t give away all of my secrets; checkout TimerOrganizer when it hits the shelves later this month! Keep posted as to the exact release date to come.

Sherri Sue Fisher, author of TimerDiet and soon to be released TimerOrganizer

www.timerorganizer.com

Focus

Focus

We all want it. We all think we are fairly good at it. And we all know we could be better at it.

How to Know if You Are Focused

Do you feel that you are getting done what you set out to do every day?  OK well most days. Do you feel that the days are how you plan them? When you go to sleep at night, do feel a sense of accomplishment? When you feel focused, you go to sleep knowing you did your best! It doesn’t mean that the day was problem free; it means that you focused on the areas that were of importance and did not waste time without much to show for it.

What to Do if You Are Losing Your Focus Often

First see if there are specific things that are getting you off track. Perhaps it is the constant notifications of your social media, someone commented on your Facebook Posting, or retweeted your Tweet, or Loved your Instagram posting! Maybe turn your notifications to silent and check them when you are ready to do so. Then there are the email notifications, whether on your computer or on your phone. Try turning off the volume on your computer and set your notifications to silent. If you can control how often you check your notifications rather than having them constantly interrupt you (since you are so popular!) will make being focused easier.

But What if it is Still NOT Easier?

Sometimes taking preventative measures to minimize distractions still doesn’t make you focus the way that you hoped. What do you do? Try taking a timer and set it for 15 minutes and try to stay focused for the entire 15 minutes, then when the timer goes off, take at least a five minute break. Then increase the amount by anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes more, until you are able to focus for an entire hour. Be sure that every time your timer goes off that you take a break. This will have the benefit of actually making you want to just stay focused, since you probably won’t always want to stop what you are doing…this is great progress!!  Eventually, you won’t need to use the timer and you will be able to focus for however long you feel that you want to.

 

Keep up the good work, each small step can build great things!!

Sherri Sue Fisher, author of TimerDiet and to be released TimerOrganizer

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