Thursday, February 04, 2010
The 5S Process for Getting Organized
WebWorkerDaily: "Here I go again, writing about organization. This time, though, it’s not because I’ve found a great new app to help me. You see that picture? It’s my inbox, aka my “to-be-dealt-with” pile. And there are two more like it. If only there were an app that could help me!"
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I have found this very useful for my downstairs studio as well as my desk space in my room. The studio downstairs gets cleaned up about once a month, since my model making days have dropped off significantly, and the bedroom workspace gets tidied up every night. I'm someone that can't function in a cluttered space. I am also a firm believer in making sure that everything has a place, and that it gets returned to that place. That mindset has definitely come in very handy when I've had to call home and walk my mother through my room and direct her precisely to where something was kept. Basically I believe in being very organized, and it's a key factor in lowering my stress levels.
While I might not be the most meticulous person in the world, and someone might think I'm a little messy, I know that everything has it's place. Through out the week I have little time to put everything away and straighten up. However every weekend I spend 5 or 10 minutes straightening up so that the next week it can start all over again. If you do this at least once a week it prevents your mess from becoming ridiculous. You don't have to be a neat freak, just keep your mess in check.
I have probably made comments like this about other articles, but I believe that any sort of organization technique should be taken with a grain of salt. A technique is only useful to you if it is, in fact, useful to you. I know this sounds like common sense, but it is really important. If you are spending more time on organizing your work through some sort of system, then even if you are more organized, it is not an efficient system. Likewise, if you are still as stressed even with an organization system in place, it is equally as inefficient.
A system or organizing your life must be developed by you through the figuring out of what exactly it is that you need. It must be a personal thing. While systems can provide ideas, no one system will work perfectly for everyone.
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