Projects #1 and #4

Last fall I was attempting to get well organized with goals for 2013. Then my job took on some frustrations, and I got off track on many things. So this month I am trying to get back in gear.

I had some projects to take care of, and I assigned the light table to be #1, on January 2, 2013:

So I began to sort and organize.

And here’s the end result, at that time, January 3, 2013:

Recently it got loaded up again, so I have cleared it once again, but things are now all over another table, waiting to be sorted and put away.

Project #2 was my desk. Project #3 is the metal cupboard. But as I cleared the table I needed to take care of clearing space in the file cabinet, thus establishing Project #4, the File Cabinet. I emptied this many files:

 

I created this much space:

But I haven’t put things in the drawers yet. I have kept them out, I think, to sort before I put stuff in drawers again. But that hasn’t worked. Piles around to sort! That’s no fun!

Clearing Up Clutter

I had made great strides on projects earlier this year. I had written lengthy posts about them, too. But when I became frustrated at some point, I went back and deleted them. I just double-checked the definitions of obsessive, compulsive, and obesessive-compulsive. Yeah, there’s some of that. Because I had determined that blogging was what was causing me to accomplish less, I “had” to back and clean up the blog. For the umpteenth time, I am trying to see that I do better when posting, and I think it is because I have to be more diligent with all my tasks when I am taking time to post. I can certainly say:

I have accomplished no more by blogging less.

Today, I want to make progress in the office, where most of the clutter accumulates.
If it needs to be sorted, it goes to the office.
If someone wants to clear a space, the stuff goes to the office.
If they don’t know where to put it or don’t have room in their own space, it sits in the office.
If we have too many scrap signs, they are in the office.
If the papers are yet to filed, they are lying about the office.

I can reduce the clutter. 

I can get the projects going!

After all, this blog is about    Life . . .   and      Growth.

Monthly Bills Due Dates

Tithe, of course
  3  P insurance B & J
  8  B Earthlink
10  P insurance J
10  P insurance A
15  P utilities
24  P Verizon/FIOS
28  P mortgage
29  B Grasshopper

FDOR July 15 & December 15
cars (March 25 & September 25)
house (May)

Although we always paid off our full balance each month on credit cards, we go rid of those a couple years ago.

These are the regular bills. Of course, we have other business expenses with our home business, which we have operated since January 1989.

Making a Useful Checklist

Dan Miller (of 48 Days) reminds listeners, in almost every podcast, about realizing that choices are not just either/or.

I have discovered that my battle about a blog checklist is between not doing a checklist at all OR doing one that has nearly every task I complete each evening—obsessively so!

Today it occurred to me that I could be losing track of To Dos with checking in here each day. So I shall start again, with the plan to use the list for things I want to remember to do. I know that it may or may note include routine tasks, but I shall try not to obsess about it.