ORGANIZING, FLOWERS, AND GRANDKID FUNNIES

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.  A.A. Milne

Flowers from Pinterest

 I've been a fairly organized person for as long as I can remember. Even as a little girl my room was always neat and organized. I made my bed before I  even got out of it mostly because the bed was almost undisturbed after sleeping in it!  I guess I was "tidy" even in my sleep! Don't hate!

 I DO believe that there is SOME kind of relationship between order and contentment or happiness. Don't you feel happy and more relaxed when things are in order or just after you've cleaned or picked up the clutter? Yeah, me too. So that's my goal now.

But even though I PREFER the feeling that being organized brings, I have to admit that there have been less orderly times in my life. There were times when life got busy and my orderly life went by the wayside. Or times when the rest of the family forgot that items in our house had their own" home"! Sometimes the clutter was contained to closets that I didn't have to look at every day but nevertheless it was there, hiding behind doors but always in the back of my mind!

Flowers from Pinterest

Having lived with both spectrums of living with some clutter and being organized, I've learned some things that I'd like to share about the benefits and thus the JOY of being organized. So here are 10 of them, though I'm sure there are even MORE.

10 BENEFITS OF BEING ORGANIZED

1) Being organized brings CALM, SERENITY, and BEAUTY to your home.
2) Being organized FLOWS OVER into other areas of your life including your finances.
3) Being organized helps you be more IN CONTROL of your life.
4) Being organized gives you  MORE TIME to do what you enjoy.
5) Being organized helps you and your family FEEL HAPPIER  and MORE SECURE.
6) Being organized helps you to REMEMBER important things.
7) Being organized helps you live more IN THE PRESENT MOMENT.
8) Being organized helps you to ENJOY LIFE more.
9) Being organized brings ORDER to your life in general.
10 ) Being organized helps you APPRECIATE the DETAILS and LOVELY things in life.

Flowers from Pinterest

This list of benefits has re-motivated me to get organized and stay that way. So with that in mind each week I'm going to share some organizational ideas and tips that I'm working on and that hopefully will help you do the same.

If you have always thought of organizing as tedious and too much work, do not fear. I'm going to make this fun! We'll do this together, you and I. We'll share, commiserate, and cry laugh together. But we'll get the job done! I'd also love to hear YOUR ideas. So don't be afraid to share.

So are you with me?  Begin this week by posting this list of benefits. Post them on your refrigerator or bulletin board, or desk, or wherever you'll see them every day.  No organizing this week. We're just going to work on getting these benefits embedded in our brains.

Flowers from Pinterest

This post comes to you compliments of my former blog, A Well Ordered Life, which I've discontinued in order to share my thoughts on this ONE blog.

Why the flowers here? Because both flowers and organized spaces make me happy.  And because even if you don't like being organized at least there are some pretty flowers to look at here. These flowers were taken from my Pinterest board, POTS AND PLANTERS.  Don't you just LOVE Pinterest?








GRANDKIDS SAY THE FUNNIEST THINGS: We've been trying to help our 4 year old grandson, Charlie, with his potty training.  The other day I said, "Now remember, Charlie, if you have to go poop you have to go on the potty chair." He said, "No, if  I have to go poop I go to dot com slash poop"