Ten Highly Organized Habits Accompany Personal and Professional Development
Ten highly organized habits are conducive to big-impact, low-effect personal and professional development, according to an article consolidating over 15 years of interviews and published in Real Simple magazine’s June 2016 issue.
The two-page article by Stephanie Sisco, home guide author and magazine staff editor, brings together 10 organizational behaviors whose benefits are immediate, lasting, personal and professional. The ten habits cultivate respect for how, when and where space and time must be ordered, as epitomized in two article-specific illustrations by María Corte Maidagan.
The ten demonstrate two questions that Dr. Sherry Pagoto, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, recommends asking in scrutinizing habits. Makeovers expect to “address a major impediment” to the goal of being organized and to “have a measurable return on investment” by knowing where things are.
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WriterArtist, Thank you for visiting and writing about excellent remedies to overflow: sharing with others.
During the shutdown months of March and April, I remembered this article and went through everything everywhere, indoors and outside. It was a sobering experience that turned out very satisfactorily.
I need to apply this to my overflowing clothes closet. The way I try to manage an overload is to donate stuff. Although it is hard to relinquish some old stuff, it gives me satisfaction that it will come handy to someone needy. A good article indeed, most of us need organizing skills. Our degrees and education does not matter much. And such skills can be acquired, they are not inherent.
katiem2, Thank you for settling on this article that Corte Maidagan, Sisco and Real Simple did such respectively great jobs in illustrating, writing and publishing. I'm sorry to hear that this up-and-down weather is getting an excellent redheaded article, book and play writer and illustrator like yourself down. Have you thought about illustrating and writing your "I like myself" redhead into a children's book about green roof or Hawaiian rain gardens?
Winter has been so crazy and well, a dab depressing with this topsy turvy weather. I needed a boost, this is just what I needed.
BrendaReeves, It seems to me that it's always a tightrope walk between the disorganization that "The 13 ways to end autopilot cycle rut and help personal development" identifies as helping us create and innovate and the organization in "10 highly organized habits for personal and professional development" that helps us find things when we need and want them. I wouldn't bemoan not having an "organized brain" since ultimately all that matters is being able to get through ours' and others' disorganization and organization.
Good article. I've come to the conclusion that the only hope for me is to own as little as possible. I don't have an organized brain.
CruiseReady, Amen! Achievements always need to be recognized and rewarded.
Sounds like an interesting - and useful - article. I particularly liked item two, because those small rewards can go a long way towards motivation for so many of the other nine.
It is different when the family is involved.
sandyspider, Perhaps the two are necessary for a career since research behind "The 13 ways to end autopilot cycle rut and help personal development" indicates that messy desks help creativity far more than neat! It's difficult not to feel lost when making any attempt at organizing a home since the whole family is involved!