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Apr

Get Organized – Get Accountable!

NOW AVAILABLE: 52 Organizing Missions.

Commit to your 52 mini organizing missions

I’ve invited readers to let public commitment help them get motivated and make progress on their organizing tasks.

In short, here’s what I’ve suggested…

52 Mini Organizing Missions

What I’ll do:

  • Each week I’ll give you a mini organizing mission via the Get Organized Blog (right here!).
  • It will only take about 30 minutes (that’s 30 minutes a week) to complete the basic mission.
    There’ll sometimes be a larger option if you want to go further.
  • The missions will include decluttering, personal organization, goal-setting and personal development tasks across a range of home, work and life areas.
  • The tasks will be broad enough for you to make them personally applicable, or I’ll give you a range of options – so you won’t be asked to do something irrelevant to you.

What I’d like you to do:

  • Register your commitment to completing the missions with a comment on this Get Organized – Get Accountable! Post.
  • Each week, check in on that week’s Assigned Mission post.
  • Um – complete the mission!
  • Enter a comment – eg DONE – on that week’s Assigned Mission post. I’d love you to share your experience too, if you like.

Just imagine how much organizing and decluttering you’ll have achieved by the end of your 52 organizing missions!

Missions

The following organizing missions are now available…

  • Get Organized Mission #1: Fill a Hu-u-uge Trash Bag
  • Get Organized Mission #2: Detox Your Briefcase/Tote/Bag
  • Get Organized Mission #3: Organize Your Bill Payment
  • Get Organized Mission #4: Forgo the Freebies
  • Get Organized Mission #5: Be a Smart Verbal Communicator
  • Get Organized Mission #6: Detox Your Car
  • Get Organized Mission #7: Be Happy!
  • Get Organized Mission #8: Declutter 50 Items
  • Get Organized Mission #9: Filing System Nirvana
  • Get Organized Mission #10: Clear Out Your Closet
  • Get Organized Mission #11: Create Your Wardrobe Wishlist
  • Get Organized Mission #12: Organize Your Accounts & Credit Cards
  • Get Organized Mission #13: Organize Your Emergency Contacts [With Emergency List]
  • Get Organized Mission #14: Organize Your Household Notebook
  • Get Organized Mission #15: Organize Your Kitchen
  • Get Organized Mission #16: Streamline Your Books, CDs, & DVDs
  • Get Organized Mission #17: Create Your Bedroom Sanctuary
  • Get Organized Mission #18: Organize Your Computer in 7 Simple Steps
  • Get Organized Mission #19: Organize Your Office
  • Get Organized Mission #20: Create Your ‘Organized Life Bedtime Routine’
  • Get Organized Mission #21: Create Your ‘Organized Life Morning Routine’
  • Get Organized Mission #22: Organize Your Bathroom
  • Get Organized Mission #23: Enjoy Good Relationships
  • Get Organized Mission #24: Create a Chore Chart
  • Get Organized Mission #25: Bust Your Procrastination Demons
  • Get Organized Mission #26: Reflect On Your Success – And Reward Yourself!
  • Get Organized Mission #27: How To Boost Productivity at Work [Time Management]
  • Get Organized Mission #28: How To Simplify Your Home Organization Tasks
  • Get Organized Mission #29: How To Make the Most Of Your Personal Time
  • Get Organized Mission #30: Organize Your Personal Stress Management Plan
  • Get Organized Mission #31: Organize Your Living Area
  • Get Organized Mission #32: Organize Your Laundry
  • Get Organized Mission #33: Organize Your Email Management
  • Get Organized Mission #34: Donate 50 Things
  • Get Organized Mission #35: Set ‘Yes’ Priorities – And Know When To Say No
  • Get Organized Mission #36: Organize Your Paperwork
  • Get Organized Mission #37: Organize Your Diet
  • Get Organized Mission #38: Organize Your Fitness
  • Get Organized Mission #39: Declutter Your Surfaces
  • Get Organized Mission #40: Conquer Your Storage Space Demons
  • Get Organized Mission #41: Simplify Your Life – Possessions
  • Get Organized Mission #42: Simplify Your Life – Time
  • Get Organized Mission #43: How To Declutter Your To-Do List
  • Get Organized Mission #44: Live Within Your Home’s Boundaries
  • Get Organized Mission #45: Organize Your Garden
  • Get Organized Mission #46: Give Yourself A MakeOver
  • Get Organized Mission #47: Declutter Your Thinking Habits
  • Get Organized Mission #48: Organize Your Kids & Their Bedrooms
  • Get Organized Mission #49: How To Find Your Passion
  • Get Organized Mission #50: Get Rid Of Debt
  • Get Organized Mission #51: Weekly Schedule Template
  • Get Organized Mission #52: Live a Simpler Life

Commit Now!

Come on – if you want to cross the motivation bridge you have to pay the commitment toll. 😛

To register your commitment leave a comment to say you’re taking part.

NOW AVAILABLE: 52 Missions Home Organizer.
Break free of clutter – and save time, money & energy. Learn more.

Michele | Get Organized Gal

Michele is into writing, books, simplicity, love, TV, productivity, and staying thin in a world of chocolate.

1,276 thoughts on “Get Organized – Get Accountable!”

  9. bee says:

    Hmmm. Seems like I confused the space for accountability vows with that for comments on having done the mission. Sorry.
    I’ll scan the comments on the mission completed for helpful ideas.

  10. bee says:

    OK, one bin out the door & to the curb in time for the weekly trash collection the next a.m. (hurrah!)
    Yet it was barely a dent.
    I’ll need a month of daily half hour missions to sort all the stuff that I want out of the house (both the trash & donations to the charity thrift shop), but at least I’ve made a start and believe I can do this with the inner voice asking “Do I love this? Do I “really” use it? need it? that many? would someone else be better off making use of it?” I know books will be about the hardest, when I get to those.

    I overthink everything so I considered approaches to the problem and… thought about what I could most usefully think while doing the mission. I hope you find these helpful & will share what helped you.

    Some useful thoughts in tossing:
    If you need the article you can find it on line, toss the damn magazine. It’s out of date, out of style, stale, or ugly, broken, cracked, musty, worn, torn, easily replaced. Find the fatal flaw.
    OUT out OUT.
    The dust on it is proof you don’t use it.
    Remember what a lot of stuff your frugal aunts & pack-rat uncle left for your parents & cousins to dispose of? [thank goodness I’m a continent away]
    “Why did I buy that?” means it goes. Now.

    Some things best banished and NOT thought about:
    You paid $$$ for that professional journal, you ought to read it, you really must. [ No, you won’t. You don’t want to. You have better uses for your time & personal spaces]
    I really will fix that.
    Someday… [Just wake up from “someday” dreams and admit that now is a long way from when you first had some daydream about using/fixing the thing. OUT!]

    Any other useful thought on getting out of the clutches of “stuff”?
    thanks!

  15. Sara Jane says:

    I am a classic Adult ADDer desperately in need of organization and accountability. Enough of disorder and chaos! Let’s get going!

  17. bee says:

    On board, getting my bearings & waiting for orders… happy at the prospect of setting sail in a fresh breeze.

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