Organisation Week: Day 6: "Obstacles To Organisation"

January 8th: Obstacles To Organisation

Its the sixth day of the Organisation Week! Today we will be discussing the Obstacles To Organisation!

Does this looks familiar?

-I am someone who saves everything.

-Regarding paper, I need to visually be able to see it to remember I have it.

-Im a creative person. I need the chaos around me for inspiration.

Well, these might be some of the reasons of us being disorganised!

Obstacles of Staying Organized:

-Circumstances can get in the way of maintaining even the finest organized space in our home. A busy schedule, kids, vacation, fill in the blank. All of these can get in the way of long term organization.

-Bad habits is another obstacle and probably my biggest one at that. Im really good at creating and developing organizational systems and spaces, but because I have bad habits like procrastination to clean up right away, and allowing laziness and distraction to steer me away from finishing my tasks, things can pile up just as fast as I am able to put them in their place.

-Difference in organizational opinions is another obstacle to staying organized. If you live with others who dont share your same zeal for organizing or have their own way organizing that is different than yours, it can be difficult to find a system that works for everyone.

-There are probably many more obstacles that stand in the way of keeping organized, but Ill tackle just these top three for now. Lets put these obstacles behind us and work through ways to overcome them.

MYTHS:

-Myth Number 1: Being organised means being neat.

Truth: Being organised means more than neat, it means to be systematic.

-Myth Number 2: To be organised means to schedule every minute of your day.

Truth: Being organised means to know and be able to schedule and spend your time appropriately, often with spaces in between schedules to accommodate for sudden changes.

-Myth Number 3: Only certain types of people can be organised.

Truth: Anyone and everyone can be organised if they put in effort.

-Myth Number 4: Being organised takes lots of time and effort.

Truth: Being organised can become a habit and lots of time is saved.

-Myth Number 5: Everyone I know is organised except me.

Truth: Comparing doesn't help! Act on it!

-Myth Number 6: Organised people have no fun.

Truth: Organised people have more time to have fun instead of messiness and laziness.

How to overcome obstacles?

-Overcoming circumstances can be difficult because, often times, we have little to no control over them.

-Some recommendations for overcoming circumstances is to leave room in life for margin. Thats right, margin. By consciously under scheduling ourselves, if a need arises, there is room to squeeze necessary slots of time in for family, friends or others that need us.

-We all come with bad habits and what I have found to be a good remedy for curing bad habits is self discovery and recovery. Once you can identify which of your bad habits are holding you back from staying organized, then you can find simple solutions to maneuver around them.

ACTIVITIES FOR THE DAY:

Discussions:

Discussion: Improving Organisation (Adult Listener)

Location: Listener Community Room

Discussion Leader: @starryKoala69

Time: 12:30pm EST/ 5.30pm GMT

Discussion: Motivation Session (Adult Member)

Location: Healthy Living Room

Discussion Leader: @Amelia

Time: 1pm EST/ 6pm GMT

Discussion: Obstacles To Organisation (Adult Member)

Location: Guided Discussion Room

Discussion Leader: @cristiana33

Time: 6pm EST/ 11pm GMT

Discussion: Obstacles To Organisation (Teen Member)

Location: Guided Discussion Room

Discussion Leaders: @YayyySphere and @221Skye

Time: 8pm EST/ 1am GMT

Discussion: Improving Organisation (Teen Listener)

Location: Teen Listeners

Discussion Leaders: @amazingrea and @YayyySphere

Time: 9pm EST/ 2am GMT

Discussion: Decision Making and Problem Solving (Adult Listener)
Location: Listener Community Room
Discussion Leader: @mscoxie
Time: 2pm EST/ 7pm GMT

Other Activities:

Feed Activity:

-Share three common obstacles you face which keep you from being organised!

-Share what you have worked on/plan to work on to improve your organisational skills!

-Feed Team Activity: Post anything related to the theme.

-Use hashtag #Organisation.

Forum Activity:

Today we have a forum discussion for you all! :D We are very keen to hear your comments → Click Here ←

@YayyySphere @starryKoala69 @221Skye