I found a reference to this tumblr site in the magazine of the SMH a couple of weeks ago.(regular readers might realised, that I spend more time reading the papers on the weekend – the upside of having kids that don’t need me as much in the morning any more!)
If you are a perfectionist – don’t go there. But it illustrates the need for people to have order in their lives. It’s also very tongue in cheek. I think these photos are soothing for the mind – I see them as an art form without aspiring to create something like it. I don’t think it’s very practical
(Source: thisiscolossal.com, via jesusaintdead)
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/9474025043/3/tumblr_lqlz4dObyQ1qcprm9

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I abviously had to put this one in – it’s from someone travelling my hometown of Muenchen.
“SUBMISSION: Having summarized my first week in Munich, I soon discovered why the German flag is coloured the way it is.”
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/10555926727/1/tumblr_lp7chhJAkC1qbycdb

I am part of a US based Professional Organiser group on Facebook. Organising is huge over there, and there is a lot going on in this group. And because I somehow told Facebook to send me an e mail every time someone in this group posts something (and I am too stupid to find the button to change this) I was part of a very lively discussion last week about :”what NOT to do in time management” All a bit tongue in cheek

Here are the interesting posts:

•             Start getting ready for your appointment when the appointment begins. No need to be on time when people will wait for you.

•             Never leave time for traffic or getting lost. That would take the fun out of driving!

•             When you go to the grocery store, get extra exercises by criss crossing the store to get everything you think of. No need to make a list because you’ll remember it all of course.

•             Make sure to read every single update from all of your friends on face book every single day! You wouldn’t want to miss anything.

•             Buy as many “time saving” gadgets as possible and spend all of your time trying to figure out how to use them, and always buy the next upgrade.

•             Be spontaneous at all times and live in the moment. Planning, goal setting, schedules and routines are boring.

•             Take pride in squeezing in multiple tasks in a short period of time, even if it means you may be late for an appointment and will keep people waiting.

•             Schedule all of your appointments back to back to “save time”. Be sure to show your disapproval while you’re waiting in a line that’s taking too long – don’t they know you have places to be?

•             Buy organising supplies like boxes before you start de cluttering

•             multitask

•             Don’t even consider staging your backpack, briefcase or suitcase the night before. Procrastination rules.

•             Be sure to spread out your errands, driving across town to pick up dry cleaning today, then tomorrow crossing town for the shoe repair.

•             When organizing a room, be sure to stop what you are doing to walk upstairs and put away the red sock you just found.

•             Say yes to every request, regardless of how it affects you, as long as people still like you and think you are Superwoman.

Collected by: Allison Spitzer Carter, Jacquie Ross, Christi Gamble, Alys Milner, Susanne Thiebe

I had this done for me at fiverr.com

… or better hubby did.

It did just slip out of its tray. I just didn’t look closely enough.
Time now to follow up an all those prospective customers.

… which is a major disaster. And for me as a Professional Organiser very, very unprofessional indeed. And it’s not any old notebook with a couple of scribbles and notes, no: it’s the one and only place I keep phone notes when prospective customers ring. I don’t put details into the computer before they become “real” customers, meaning before they book an appointment with me. And it’s worked so far, because this notebook is always handy. I don’t have to start the computer when someone rings with an enquiry in the middle of cooking dinner.

Until yesterday when I realized that it’s gone. And I am not even 100% sure when and where I used it last. I always do “the right thing” because I know this little notebook is potentially worth a lot of money –I always put it back where it belongs, never take it out of the house…

So I didn’t really know where to look for it, because there is just one spot it lives and it always goes back there once I am finished. So I panicked and started what I can do best – I organised the pile it normally lives on, than started on nearby areas, maybe it slipped. Looked under the shelf and cleaned and organised there. Maybe my husband found it and put it where he likes to quickly stash thing out of sight – so the cookbooks got an onceover. Short of running out of ideas I thought maybe the kids… so I started on their bookshelves.

I am feeling I need to call an Organised to help me go through my whole house to find this bl…y notebook. I can definitely feel the panic I can hear in a lot of my enquiring customers.

I’ll continue my journey, but in the mean time – all you prospective customer out there: don’t wait for me to give you a follow up call – your Organiser has lost a bright green, A5 size notebook.