Since there’s never a good time to sort the scrappy, stressful minutiae of life, now will always be a better time than tomorrow. Don’t wait for the time to feel right, because that moment might never come.

I follow the financial teachings of Dave Ramsey who says, "You can wander into debt, but you can't wander out." The same applies for getting organized. What are you doing already to focus your solo organizing sessions?  What can you add to this list? 

Here are some suggestions for sounds to help focus you while you work. Do you routinely listen to something specific to help you focus? Have additional app suggestions? Please add to the list in the comments!

To-do lists are emotional little things. They are so much more than meets the eye - and you know this by how they make you feel when they get messy, scribbled-on, tattered, or lost. I've noticed that my clients have a lot of gunk in their heads about what a to-do list should look like, as well as excuses for why theirs a crazy-maker.

People work off of lists that are WAY too long. Now wonder when you sit down with a few precious minutes or hours, you get scrambled, stressed, and turn to the fast tasks with little reward. The big, satisfying, lucrative tasks that make you proud of yourself and move you forward get lost and don’t get done.

Most people are working off of to-do lists that are way to long and messy! When I'm brought in to help someone organize their office, often the conversations bring up their feelings of overwhelm in many areas of life. When I hear this, I can usually predict that a too-long, too-scattered, or too-messy to-do list is lurking.