Back to Basics

Back to basics. This is one of my all time favorite sayings. It just kind of boils down my organized-way.com philosophy.

When life has got you down and you don't really know what to do, just get the basics taken care of. You will start to feel better and life will not look so rough.

If you have just been laid off, you will feel down and wonder what you will do now. You will be tempted to curse the world and wonder how you will survive. You will not know what to do.

Here is what you can do:

1) Do your laundry.

2) Sweep the kitchen floor.

3) Change the sheets on your bed.

4) Clean your bathrooms.

5) Pick up and straighten.

6) Find something to throw out. Throwing something out never fails to make me feel better.

7) Make a list of the organizing tools you need to make your life easier. Things like garbage bags and a Planner Book.

These simple things must be done anyway. Instead of laying around and feeling sorry for yourself, help yourself. These are good things you are doing for you.

What I mean is to just cut out everything you can to just the basics of what you consider your main life goals, and having an organized life , activities and your own life, survival and well being to get life organized. These are the things that make your life, your life and ensure that you keep on living.

It is so easy to get involved more and more in all kinds of things that have nothing to do with what you are trying to do with your life.

I like to concentrate on staying organized and create habits such as the 10 habits of organized people that help me be more organized.

Once you put in the effort, energy and time to becoming organized it is does not take that much effort to stay always organized. Back to basics effort is needed but it is not struggle. It is gentle work and not that difficult. It should be easy and rewarding. It should not take that much time to stay organized.

I also know the affordable way to get organized. What small amounts of money I use getting organized is paid back to me in huge increases in time.

The beauty of back to basics is that the basics are different for everyone.

My basics are pretty basic, even simple, compared to some people. They are probably huge compared to others. My basics include the reasons I love being organized.

I also concentrate on keeping safe in bad weather and having all things organized for all situations and anytime. Sticking your head in the sand about upcoming bad weather is just dumb. I do not mean to put your life on hold like the weather forecasters say. I mean to prepare for the weather. Be ready for it. Do whatever it takes to minimize the potential problems.

You can spend an enormous amount of time and sap all your energy in activities that make no difference to your own life.

To me, that is just a sad way to live.

I know, because that is the way I lived the majority of my life.

But no longer. I have been clarifying and working on this outlook and through the process of sharing it with you, it becomes clearer to me.

If I think about how much of my time has been spent doing things I did not want to do and the wanting things to be over, I just get upset. I wonder how a supposedly smart person could be so, well, dumb.

I choose not to be upset over this.

I just got caught up in life the way the vast majority of people do. You just keep doing the same old things over and over. You let others tell you what to do, how to do it and when. You think that you should do this and we should do that. Others control you with guilt and manipulation. You must end procrastination on what you really want to do or need to do to make improvements in your life.

You are too busy to think for yourself so you let others do that for you. You are led to believe that bad ideas are really good ideas.

If we are not really that busy, we feel guilty about it and spend time, keeping busy in mindless activities that just make us dumber.

It is far more effective to use a process called reboot your brain for setting goals than just never bothering to do this or haphazardly listing things here and there. Once you have your goals set then you can do things related to those goals rather than being endlessly caught up doing things that have nothing to do with what you want to do.

It is a cycle. I just choose to break the cycle and concentrate on myself. I am getting back to basics.

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