Time Management Archives | Professional Organizer Pasadena, CA https://www.getorganizedalready.com/category/time-management/ Get Organized Already! We help nice people get organized. Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:49:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/favicon.png Time Management Archives | Professional Organizer Pasadena, CA https://www.getorganizedalready.com/category/time-management/ 32 32 75050459 Having Trouble Remembering Things? It’s Time to Declutter https://www.getorganizedalready.com/trouble-remembering-time-to-declutter/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/trouble-remembering-time-to-declutter/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:37:39 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/saving-money-at-dinner-time/ When was the last time you forgot something important? And not just your wallet, I’m talking about forgetting your responsibilities or forgetting an idea. All of those brilliant ideas you have exploding in your brain. You think, “Oh, that is good. I’m going to do that as soon as…” as soon as you get home, […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/trouble-remembering-time-to-declutter/feed/ 0 929 Getting Back to Life (sort of) with Batching https://www.getorganizedalready.com/getting-back-to-life-with-batching/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/getting-back-to-life-with-batching/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:19:02 +0000 https://getorganizedde.wpengine.com/?p=7943 Grouping similar tasks will help your post-pandemic productivity. Look at us! Out here trying to act like we remember how to go to work and school and do Life! Aren’t we all grown-up and having fun! Well, maybe not. Getting back to the grind is proving to be tricky. There were a lot of systems […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/getting-back-to-life-with-batching/feed/ 0 7943 Open Letter to the Queen Volunteer https://www.getorganizedalready.com/open-letter-to-the-queen-volunteer/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/open-letter-to-the-queen-volunteer/#respond Sun, 13 May 2018 17:57:01 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/open-letter-to-the-queen-volunteer/ This week I found this letter which I wrote to myself when my children were 4 and 5 years old (they are 15 months apart). Those were hard times, friend. And here’s my proof. Dear Incredibly Nice, Selfless-Mother-of-2, You are such a giver–volunteer of the year for sure! You are on the ball and we […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/open-letter-to-the-queen-volunteer/feed/ 0 1549 Doing it all; Home care ideas from a professional organizer https://www.getorganizedalready.com/ideas-from-professional-organizer/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/ideas-from-professional-organizer/#respond Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:22:46 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/?p=8581 Last week I talked about Doing it all. Since we can’t actually do everything, how can you figure out what things are most important for you. There is no cookie-cutter model for balancing work, family, and self. I think that’s because people have really different priorities. For some people, an organized house is not nearly […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/ideas-from-professional-organizer/feed/ 0 8581 Doing it all https://www.getorganizedalready.com/doing-it-all/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/doing-it-all/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:06:58 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/organizer-move-easier/ So much has been said and written about life-work-family balance, it seems like we’d be done talking by now. Still, there are houses to run, careers to have, and children to feed. In that respect we will always be talking about doing it all — about life balance, also known by it’s not-so-loaded name: time […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/doing-it-all/feed/ 0 1404 Resolution: time, money, and donuts https://www.getorganizedalready.com/resolution-time-money-donuts-3/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/resolution-time-money-donuts-3/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:07:15 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/resolution-time-money-donuts-3/ Time, like money, is exactly what you make of it. If I remain oblivious to how long things actually take and let my days pound me like waves while I paddle to stay above water, it will never feel like I have any power over my time. When I start to pay more attention to […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/resolution-time-money-donuts-3/feed/ 0 1235 Time to get real with your new year’s resolution https://www.getorganizedalready.com/get_real_with_your_resolution/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/get_real_with_your_resolution/#respond Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:30:15 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/get_real_with_your_resolution/ Think back on this year that’s ending. What if your next 5 years play out pretty much the same way–your job, your free time, your relationships? Does that projection make you feel glad or sad? Excited or scared? In my last post I talked about concentrating on what we want more of for the new […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/get_real_with_your_resolution/feed/ 0 1225 Resolution: get organized? https://www.getorganizedalready.com/resolution-get-organized/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/resolution-get-organized/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:18:30 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/your-husband-has-too-many-t-shirts-organizing-family/ The end of a calendar year brings the concept of time to the front of our consciousness as we count even the seconds until the entire set of numbers governing our modern lives turns over to give us a fresh start. We all love a fresh start. It feels natural to pause at the beginning […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/resolution-get-organized/feed/ 0 1210 How to organize a meal swap https://www.getorganizedalready.com/how-to-organize-a-meal-swap/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/how-to-organize-a-meal-swap/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:40:56 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/how-to-organize-a-meal-swap/ I’ve finished my workday, picked up the chickens from school and now I’ve got to take my daughter to gymnastics. I have tennis practice while she’s at the gym. My husband is just going to get home from work in time to be hungry. What’s for dinner? they ask. How about a martini? I answer […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/how-to-organize-a-meal-swap/feed/ 0 1189 Chores for kids pt. 4: Teaching time management https://www.getorganizedalready.com/chores-for-kids-pt-4-teaching-time-management/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/chores-for-kids-pt-4-teaching-time-management/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:18:07 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/chores-for-kids-pt-4-teaching-time-management/ After a couple of weeks of a new chore regimen, expect some push back from everyone. Left to its own devices, the tendency of any system is to descend into chaos. -KJ Dell’Antonia in her article on turning chores into habits. People who are procrastinators by nature are never going to be that excited about […]

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