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Organize before they rise!
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
The reason most organizing systems haven't worked for most people is that they haven't yet transformed all the stuff they're trying to organize. As long as it's still stuff, it's not controllable.
I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.
The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.
You don't have to stop everything to get organized, you just have to start.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
Organization is the Devil's work.
Compartmentalize
I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
It takes a lifetime to organise your life
I am an organization freak!
The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.
Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
I'm way too disorganized.
Organize and execute around priorities.
Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.
While all important enterprises need careful organization, it is the organization that needs organizing, rather than the enterprise.
I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.
I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.
One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
Living life is more enjoyable than managing and organizing stuff!
Time is but an extension of the Human desire for organization.
With organization comes empowerment.
Organization isn't a destination, it's a journey.
Food is one of the great organizing tools.
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.
We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.
plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically.
[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.
Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.
A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.
I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.
Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.
You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious would be an understatement. I'm never one to sit around, I always have to be creating in various facets to keep myself entertained.
The key to achieving your sustainable best is to organize around doing what matters most.
I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
When I'm on set, I'm on set, and I focus and get the work done. Then when I'm done, I kind of have this button that I switch. I'm constantly switching this button and putting on different masks, and that kind of keeps me organized.
After raising twins, you get organized.
Organization takes the fun out of everything.
There can be no one best way of organizing a business.
I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic career.
If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.
I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.
To get things done, you have to get people together.
I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.
The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.
Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting, you're doing it in the context of everything you've posted before. Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping.
An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
Wake me up
when everything is organized.
Develop a good filing system.
Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what's most important. Then do those things first.
It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.
Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.
I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.
I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.
I like things to be orderly.
I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.
We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.
Management by Walking Around
Keeping order is a crutch for those who are too lazy to search for things ... )
(1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.
Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
Not that I'm saying you have OCD or anything. You just like things to be organized. Really, really organized.
The right priorities in planning will help you to avoid fuss, tiredness and overwork
I think being organized should be in your lifestyle. I run a few different businesses, so I have to be organized. And I think everyone around me will also feel organized. To have chaos going on, it just doesn't work.
One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
I'm too disorganized.
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
My filing system is messy but orderly.
I'm a pretty organised traveller.
I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.
Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.
A leader organizes people whether they know it or not.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.