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Your important files are never where you kept them last.
Finding a uniform for your kid to wear tomorrow is pure luck.
The snack you want to eat right now got finished last week.
We deal with this every day, don’t we?
Dis-organisation takes a lot of precious time away from being productive.
Being organised has many benefits:
1. Increased productivity
2. Improved focus
3. Less stress
4. More calmness and peace
5. Better performance
6. Greater success
7. Good feelings
Having lived in Japan, I have incorporated many habits that has helped me over the years in building an organised home and office.
For example, a whiteboard on the fridge that reminds that the particular food is over and need to be ordered. When someone uses the last bit, the jar stays on the slab till it is marked on the board.
Here’s 5S method which is great way to bring effectiveness and efficiency in the organisational structure of a workplace or home.
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Last but not the least stay flexible, be ready some days will be more taxing than others.
Our physical experience colours our emotional experience, and when my body is in a place that’s orderly, my mind becomes more serene.
Gretchen Rubin
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