Live Your Life Be Free!

Typically, I find people who are organized and tidy kind of full of themselves. They often look down on people who are less-so, and if a messy roommate lives with an organized one, often it is the organized one who dominates.

I thought this until I met a friend in University who was naturally organized, but I never held it against her because she had a refreshing attitude. I told her how amazing she was, and how I wished desperately that I was the same way. She did not make a deal about it, and simply said “well, some people are that way, some people aren’t,” hinting that it was obviously a nature thing rather than nurture.

A few months ago, I read an article in the New York Times about a writer (Sara Rimer) who was trying to get organized, but she wasn’t really a naturally organized person. She wrote a great article about it. I needed this advice, since during tax time I was trying to reconciliate my old life as a single one-person sole-proprietorship to my new life as a coupled-off president of an employeed corporation. I also moved three times last year.

Sara says:

Organization is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Just as people’s differing appetites, metabolisms and capacities for exercise mean that a given diet will work well for some, not at all for others, differences in work styles can run deep, and often call for customized approaches to the home office. And yet, the experts say, few of us take (or even believe we have) the time to figure out how we really work, or what kind of system is likely to work for us.

Agreed! I took her advice of using bins instead of files, to simply throw things in, rather than needing to file it in a forgotten drawer. I have been using the system for a few months, and just got Matt to put up some shelves to hold them. Check it out! (you can also see that I like Pocky ).