Welcome to Get Myself Organized

GetMyselfOrganized.com has been up and running since October 2006, and I have been writing regular articles for it all that time, except between August and December 2008.  A new article is added every two weeks, and arrives by email to over 30,000 subscribers to GetMyselfOrganized.com

GetMyselfOrganized.com now re-directs to the organization and running a home section of YvetteWrites.com.  This seemed a simpler way to keep all my writing together.  If this turns out to be the wrong decision, I still own the domain name, so I can change it if need be.

If you’re interested in improving yourself, and improving your life, these articles aim to provide information, motivation, ideas and inspiration to help you get the most out of your life through organization.

Being organized makes life easier, and is a demonstration of control over your own life and your own decisions.

To do anything in an orderly way involves decision making, and the ability to make good decisions and carry them out is affected by self esteem.

Self esteem and motivation issues can be pretty tricky to deal with, but by applying some simple strategies to the practical details of everyday living, there can be a beneficial flow-on effect to how we feel, which is what these articles are going for.

As mentioned on the About page, I'm a fan of Flylady, and her site inspired me to choose organization as my first topic to start writing about.

Before hearing of the wonderful Flylady, I always had a weekly schedule for my housework and any other stuff I wanted done regularly, and daily routines to help me keep up with what I wanted to do.  The first time I heard of the index card system was in an old feminist novel from the 70s called The Women’s Room.  I hadn’t heard of Pam and Peggy or the whole Sidetracked Home Executives thing.

What I love about Flylady is her wonderful common sense and genuine desire to help others with the sorts of issues so many of us struggle with, a big one being perfectionism.  The acronyms and inside language are not my cup of tea, but the information is excellent.  Reading her site got me thinking it would be a topic I would love to write about, and my ideas are certainly consistent with Marla’s, though I’m not into the whole shiny sink thing.  Many of Marla’s readers though, have described how they’ve replaced the shiny sink with something meaningful to them, clearly ‘getting’ the idea behind it.

I’ve now started collecting books about organization, both household, business and general, both old and new, and intend to work my way through them and let them influence my writing.  The main focus of my writing about organization is dealing with the feelings surrounding it, and practical ways of dealing with them.

If you enjoy these articles and find them helpful, you’ll love my e-book Organized for Life – 208 pages of common sense advice about keeping your home, your time and your life organized.  The link to buy this book will be available again shortly - watch this space.