Is there a secret to getting organized?
I think the idea of assessing and purging is very key to organizing anything because you want to look at everything that you've got, no matter what it is, look at everything, asses, "What is it", "Do I need it", "How is it going to work with what it is that I am trying to accomplish?" and then purge all the pieces, all the things, that you don't need, that you don't want, that you're not going to use. Get rid of them and then put everything back in place. It's so important to have that assessment process and that purging. Those elements are just so key because without them it's very hard to organize anything. If you're just going to take everything out and just put it all back together to look all nice and pretty, that's nice, but basically it's just looking nice and pretty, it's not assistance that you're putting in, you're just retooling everything. Assessing and purging helps in creating that system. I think anything you want to organize, you always have to asses and you always have to purge. Now you may decide that there is nothing that you can purge, but you have to look at things, keeping in mind the possibility of purging. It works with closets, it works with food in your kitchen, with bathroom items, papers. I can't honestly think about anything that it doesn't work with because, again, you want to organize something, you need to look at what it is. You need to figure out if you need it. What is it for? Then you have to get rid of the pieces that you don't need and then you need to put it back together.
