Book Bite

 I didn't forget to post yesterday. It was just one of those days when no post seemed to come together and so, by the end of the day, I decided to try again tomorrow -- now today.

And this afternoon, it hit me. Why not let you read a little bit of the book that came out of this blog? So, here's a little piece of the intro. If it interests you, click the link at the bottom of the post to read more. 

See you next week.

When it comes to organizing, there are two kinds of people. There are Type A organizers, for whom organizing is easy and automatic. Practical, time-tested tools work for them. They’ve successfully (and consistently) mastered the use of three-ring binders, file cabinets, and pocket folders. Type A organizers are the embodiment of the phrase “a place for everything and everything in its place.”

And then there are the rest of us. 

We want to get organized, we really do. Tired of feeling scattered, we buy three-hole punches so we can corral all those loose papers into binders. We buy boxes of multi-colored file folders in an effort to restore order and we spend hours setting up filing systems only to be stymied by them later and revert to stuffing, cramming, jamming and putting things in “safe places.”

We know that getting organized is a worthwhile goal — a life skill we should cultivate. We understand that we save time and energy when we can find what we need when we need it. We secretly (or not-so-secretly) envy our put-together, Type A-organized friends who make it look so simple.

But for us, it’s not. In our best moments, we trust that we’re smart enough to master this skill, creative enough to cook up new solutions and fabulous enough to make our homes look stylish in the process. In our moments of weakness, however, we wonder if we somehow got in the wrong line on the day God was handing out organizational skills.

And it makes us feel lousy. And maybe even broken.

But we’re not broken; we are wonderfully made, and we each organize differently. Traditional tools might not be a good fit for us, but that’s a technicality, because organization is more than just the tools we choose. Successful organization requires three components working together:

styles + strategies + tools = organization

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