What can I do daily to get and stay organized?
Opening your mail and putting it in the places that it belongs. One of the key things I find is that people will just throw mail somewhere. If it's on a desk, if it's on an entryway table, if it's on the dining room table; somewhere, they have a place. It just starts piling up, and they tell themselves they're going to go through it later. Well, right if when you walk through the door, just sort your mail. Maybe you have a space in your entryway and you've got three little baskets: one is for magazines, one is for bills, and one is for other mail you're going to look at. If you just even sort that out, that takes you thirty seconds at the most, you've saved yourself a lot of time on the back end because now when you have a minute, you can read your magazines. You're not digging through and trying to find something or thinking to yourself, "Oh my God! That's just too big of a pile. I can't deal with it right now." So, that's one thing. Picking one drawer a night that you're going to tackle. Putting your clothes away at the end of the day. It's tiny little things that you can do that actually will end up saving time, and this is the thing that I really try to get people to understand, is that you think you're saving time by not doing something, but what you're really doing is you're spending time by not doing it because, somewhere down the road, it's going to take you two, three, four times as much time to fix what you just did. Take three, four minutes a night and go through your calendar for the next day. Make sure you that know what you have going on, make a list of people you have to call or certain things that you might have to do. Again, this ends up saving you time because you're not scambling to try to fix something later on.
