I need to clean my office. Coming from the person who is a "closet organizer" this is hard to admit. My closets are clean and organized but my office is not. I thought it would be fun to list some of the creative activities I have used as "procrastination techniques". Perhaps some would be useful for you....
- Laundry. This is great because it needs to be done and it can be done and then it is done until a day or two later when you can do it again.
- Ironing. It is a sad day when I would rather iron than clean my office.
- Prepare a Primary Lesson. A noble cause, yes? This must include a very creative handout or activity that will be interesting to the children and help the parents know what we are learning about. This is a weekly event so it can be used to procrastinate at least once a week.
- Compile 72 hour kits. This could be something I really appreciate later. The downside is that all of the emergency info available from different sources is now a major part of the problem of the messy office.
- Laminate paper to hold business cards and addresses on the inside of kitchen cabinets. Yes, I'm becoming a bit desperate now. One is for neighbors, and one is for services like painting, house or carpet cleaning, lawn care, etc. This has greatly enhanced my enjoyment of opening the two cabinets that before held sticky notes.
- Email. How convenient that I must delete multiple emails from foreigners who have great investments or vitamins that would change my life!
- Watch a T.V. show. Once it is evening and I have put in a hard day of procrastinating who could really blame me for wanting to relax a bit.
- Mah-jong. This solitaire puzzle is mind numbing.
- Re-organize the file cabinet. Make labels for the dividers and make sure the subjects are color coded. See "closet organizer" blog, but think paper. There is much more to do, so I may soon be procrastinating this as well.
- Replace, update and hang pictures for the grandkids hall of fame. This is in my office so I do consider it part of the cleaning process.
- Blog. I can write a new blog...check my blog for comments... look at my kids blogs for new postings and then blog my comments for them. Blog, blog, blog.
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See the glorious thing about blogs is that you can use those as "journals" or documentation and you can scrapbook them later. That's why I update my blog, just so you can do my scrapbook later out of it :) j/k, I think I'll do that part, but blogs are a great way to keep record of your life. So don't write anything in there you don't want your grandkids to see :) Great blog, don't overdo yourself mom, you need some energy for Dallas! (Last comment was from me w/ a different username, sorry)
Hey Mom! I noticed that you didn't have my new blog up yet, so I will ask Andi to help you get into it. Love you! =)
Good ideas! I particularly like blogging. That is one of my favorite procrastination choices. That or reading.
I think there is something to be said for allowing one room to not be organized. To me, I think that says you are not fully OCD. So maybe it's a good thing!
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Today, let this day go down in history as the day I got my office clean! Who could have thought I needed MORE ORGANIZERS but I did and now I feel in control of my space. If the "Relief Society comes in" see story above "Death as a motivating factor". They will come and see the clean house and say "Darn, she is dead, guess we can't get her to teach us how to clean organization skills.
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