Organizing Principles - Everything Has Its Own Place
If you are interested in becoming a more organized person, then you should be interested in some organizing principles.
Some useful organizing principles are the following: understand that keeping things in order is in your own benefit, group items and tasks that are similar, break big tasks into smaller ones, start by gathering the whole material you have to work with in one place and only then sort it, keep things for which you cannot find others that are alike in a separate group together and define a thing's own place.
This last principle is of interest in this article.
If you do not have a special place for each item around the house or around the office, it means that you can find it virtually anywhere at the time when you need it, meaning further more that it will take you quite a while to look for it.
Your office will of course have thousands of things in it and your home even more, so the more difficult the task of finding something in particular if it doesn't have its own place.
After finding it, another problem is where you will put it after using it.
Finding a temporary spot for something usually doesn't save you time, because it may be quick to put it anywhere but it will be time consuming to find it again.
You should find a logical arrangement for things in your home or your office and always put things in the same place.
If you need the paper puncher and you always return it to the same spot, then you will easily find it at anytime.
Organize your space and put things that are alike in one place: the same drawer, the same shelf, the same corner of the desk, the same file folder.
Any object that doesn't fit in any group because it is not similar to others and you do not know what to do with it should go into a pile specially destined for such things, things you haven't found an appropriate group for yet.
Pick the place corresponding to an item so that it makes sense to you: close to where it will be used or simply where you know it is logic to look for it.
Keep things that are broken together in a pile with other items you should repair and things that you should give away in their own special pile as well.
The unusable items should go together, prepared for tossing them away.
No matter how long it takes to put things in order, it will take you less to do that than it will take to find the things you need if you don't have them ordered, especially since you might be in a hurry when you need them.
Some useful organizing principles are the following: understand that keeping things in order is in your own benefit, group items and tasks that are similar, break big tasks into smaller ones, start by gathering the whole material you have to work with in one place and only then sort it, keep things for which you cannot find others that are alike in a separate group together and define a thing's own place.
This last principle is of interest in this article.
If you do not have a special place for each item around the house or around the office, it means that you can find it virtually anywhere at the time when you need it, meaning further more that it will take you quite a while to look for it.
Your office will of course have thousands of things in it and your home even more, so the more difficult the task of finding something in particular if it doesn't have its own place.
After finding it, another problem is where you will put it after using it.
Finding a temporary spot for something usually doesn't save you time, because it may be quick to put it anywhere but it will be time consuming to find it again.
You should find a logical arrangement for things in your home or your office and always put things in the same place.
If you need the paper puncher and you always return it to the same spot, then you will easily find it at anytime.
Organize your space and put things that are alike in one place: the same drawer, the same shelf, the same corner of the desk, the same file folder.
Any object that doesn't fit in any group because it is not similar to others and you do not know what to do with it should go into a pile specially destined for such things, things you haven't found an appropriate group for yet.
Pick the place corresponding to an item so that it makes sense to you: close to where it will be used or simply where you know it is logic to look for it.
Keep things that are broken together in a pile with other items you should repair and things that you should give away in their own special pile as well.
The unusable items should go together, prepared for tossing them away.
No matter how long it takes to put things in order, it will take you less to do that than it will take to find the things you need if you don't have them ordered, especially since you might be in a hurry when you need them.
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