Getting Organized
Personal Organization Has Many Benefits

Getting organized has many benefits. Personal organization requires certain skills, abilities, and beliefs. Without them organized living may not be achievable without help and support.

If you think you are too busy or you lack the intrinsic motivation to get going on improving your personal organization skills, you are missing out on many benefits that organized living can bring to your life.

Data clearly shows that improving your ability at organized living will:
save money reduce stress control outcomes save time...
...that would mean more time for doing anything you would like to do more of................even nothing!

Now that makes sense!

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to consistently expect that all the supplies and resources you need for your complicated life are there when you need them? clothes, food, toilet paper (the basic necessities of life!)

Wouldn't it be nice if your life, as busy as it is, went along in an orderly way? no surprises, and very few unexpected events to knock you off your daily course?

Wouldn't it be nice to have an organized life that you are in control of?

Is that Really Possible?

YES....

The benefits of getting organized can be realized if you:

believe in and assert your organizational rights

balance the amount of stuff coming into and leaving your home

make timely decisions

set up systems and follow them consistently

establish good communication in your organized home

Barriers

It may not be possible to fully achieve organized living if the personal organization skills necessary to make logical decisions, sequence steps in a process, or remember information are not fully present.

Not everyone can achieve organized living through intrinsic motivation and reading organizing tips and hints. Real personal organization challenges do exist and they create barriers to organized living.

There is well established evidence that neurological and psychiatric pathologies influence tidiness and personal organization abilities.

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Go from Getting Organized - Benefits and Barriers to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Clutter to find out how this psychiatric condition can present a barrier to organized living.

Conditions such as:

These conditions can all influence a person's ability to make the decisions necessary to establish and maintain personal habits that can lead to control.

If a person has one of these barriers present in their life, disorganization is not the result of a lack of intrinsic motivation!

Rather the disorganization is the result of the inability of the individual to proceed independently with the process of getting organized.