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Ten Tips For Having Fun Organizing
Has the word "clutter" become a negative trigger for you? Do
piles of papers or stacks of stuff invade and haunt your physical and
mental space? Do you feel hopeless at the thought of filing or clearing?
How about if your beliefs on creating order would "reorganize"
themselves, in a Mary Poppins way, easily, effortlessly, and playfully,
could you then conceive of not only getting organized, but also staying
clutter free?
1. Play… Colors
Colors are life, colors are fun! Each has a special message to give you,
personally!
Use them: take your child self on a shopping trip to an office place,
and choose folders in the color that you like the most, be it a bright
orange, a sophisticated teal, or a spirited violet. Play with this; maybe
you want to have matching or contrasting colors for your hanging files
or folders… Let yourself start a brand new journey with your paper
world, colored by the magic of a rainbow… 2. Play… Saint
(Pleasant)
Along with the new appealing folders instilling joy and renewal and clearing
old patterns, look at the objects that are in your décor, e.g.
pencil cup, paper trays, lamps, etc… Do you like them? Do they make
you smile each time you look at them? Frame the photograph of your beloved
with a frame that brings you pleasure, or invest in the slick metallic
office set that you like! Those small investments will give your sanity,
if not sanctity. They will transform your mood, and thus your world…
3. Play… Business
Guru
It is all about playing: create a fun ritual around your organizing sessions.
Possibly go to a costume store, and buy yourself a pair of Groucho Marx's
glasses (with the mustache!) For 15 min. of organizing, put on those glasses,
and pretend you are an organization expert, or a business guru. Have fun! 4. Play… Order
Builder
Think of yourself as a Body Builder, and as organizing as your favorite
workout.
Do a set of 15 minutes. No more. Actually use an egg timer to make sure
you are not overworking your order muscles… We wouldn't want for
you to be so exhausted tomorrow, and so sore you won't touch your files
for another month! Just commit to do a set for 15 minutes a day, five
days a week! Easy… For each organizing set, treat yourself to a 15
minutes passion break, where you do something about which you are totally
passionate! 5. Play it…
And Joy Will Come
This is my promise to you: since it is much harder to resist doing something
than actually doing it, joy will flow to your heart after your very first
session! After a week, you will truly relish in your accomplishment, and
start seeing a path to your own freedom. A month will grant you a self-esteem
that you never thought was possible! Not counting the greater effectiveness,
and the satisfaction of knowing what you own, and where it is!
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Allow Win
That is where the goofy costume mentioned in #3 becomes really meaningful!
Halloween is Allow win: know that as you start this new life of yours,
there may just be the possibility of a relapse, and that the wonderful
joy just described might turn again into sheer hopelessness. Should that
moment hit, put those glasses back on, and grab a mirror, quick! Your
despair can be seen as being as real, and as unreal as those glasses are,
guaranteed! 7. Puzzle Play
Since you have just become willing to have fun relapsing into your old
self, you can also make a game out of any challenge you may encounter.
Treat it as a puzzle, as a game for your mind to resolve. First focus
on the solution, and then, just like any other genius, give yourself some
time to hear the answer… It may be helpful to create a "Puzzle
file" to be visited in your Friday organizing sessions. 8. Play… Music
Much has been said about the effect of music on reprogramming the brain.
Use it. Do your 15 minutes set while playing your favorite tunes! In this
manner, you will change your previous thought forms on organizing to a
mindset of appreciation, synchronicity, and harmony… 9. Play… Decide
Do you remember being a child and playing Post Office, or Grocery Store?
Do you remember how you would just "decide" how many stamps
to buy, or bananas or cartoons of milk? Your piles of paper are only decisions
unmade, because you thought the game was very serious, and that you could
make "mistakes." Become a child again; give yourself to decide;
this I keep, this I let go! That I let go, and this I keep! And watch
yourself becoming lighter, and happier, and, also interestingly, way more
secure about yourself! 10. Play…
Inspired!
Hire a coach. Hire an inspiration coach. Hire an inspiration coach, whose
name starts in "maha", and finishes with "lene". Hire
an Inspiration coach, whose name starts in "maha", finishes
with "lene", and whose email reads mahalene@soulvision.com.
E-mail mahalene now: you
are on for the greatest adventure!
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of page Mahalene Louis is an Inspiration Anchor, a Futurist, an Artist, an Author and the President of Soulvision Axis, Inc., a company assisting the Leader, Officer, Visionary and Engineer in Self (or L.O.V.E. as the four primordial archetypes) to unleash their creativity and awaken their spirit by collaborating as one. She recently authored “CraQKing the QKabbalah QKode: How Healing the Jewish Agenda Connects (Your) Life!”
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