{"id":5810,"date":"2014-03-25T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2014-03-25T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:07:17","slug":"professional-organizer-tip-stay-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"Professional Organizer Tip &#8211; Don&#8217;t Leave The Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5816\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5816\" src=\"http:\/\/noomii-blog-files2.s3.amazonaws.com\/2014\/03\/dont-leave-the-room.jpg\" alt=\"creative commons\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5816\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sindesign\/\">original imaged adapted<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sindesign\/\"><\/a> for use under creative commons<\/p><\/div><p>Listening to my favourite tunes, I was happily trying on my clothes, seeing what still looked good and what would go to the thrift shop.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I was on a roll organizing my bedroom closet when something broke my concentration.<\/p><p><em>There was a dirty glass on my nightstand.<\/em><\/p><p>It was glaring at me. I had to get it to the kitchen. I just need to get the dirty glass into the dishwasher and return to finish off my closet.<\/p><p>Turns out the dishwasher was full of CLEAN dishes and as I began to put the clean dishes away, I noticed a pile of mail on my kitchen table&#8230;several hours later I am on my way back to the closet when my husband walks through the door. <em>Ready to take the dog for a walk?<\/em><\/p><h3><strong>Where did the day go?<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li>I had a half-organized closet and a half-full dishwasher<\/li><li>I still had mail to open,<\/li><li>I didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t even think about dinner, and<\/li><li>The dog was looking at me with puppy eyes&#8230;literally.<\/li><\/ul><p>I had started multiple projects and didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t FINISH a thing. I am\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0annoyed and disappointed.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><h3><strong>How did this happen?<\/strong><\/h3><p><em>I left the room.<\/em> I abandoned my goal of cleaning my bedroom closet and wandered off into a number of other spaces, leaving half-finished jobs in my wake.<\/p><p>As a professional organizer and coach, my advice to you is: <em>Don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t leave the room until it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s time to leave for good.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Whatever area or project you are currently focused on organizing, and there is a good reason for locking yourself in.<\/p><p>For example,<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When you are working in your home office and notice things that belong elsewhere, put those items next to the doorway. When you are DONE with work for the day, and ready to leave your office for good, pick up those things and put them away on your way out.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you are cleaning your child\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s bedroom and come across things that belong somewhere else, just put those things to the side. Once you FINISH cleaning the room, take them with you and put them away.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While organizing your kitchen, you find things that belong in multiple rooms of your home. Create piles for each room. When you are DONE organizing your kitchen, take one pile at a time to its appropriate room and put away.<\/p><p>In each example, the goal is to finish what you started in whatever space you are working in BEFORE you go wandering off to another space.<\/p><h3>Tackle one room at a time<\/h3><p>If you leave the space you are working on, chances are good you will get distracted. Distraction hurts your chances of finishing what you started, which leads to multiple unfinished projects looming.<\/p><p><em>Had I put the glass to the side and kept working I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d have an organized closet.<\/em><\/p><p>Give it a shot and let me know how it works out for you.<\/p><p>I finally did get through my closet&#8230; a week later though.<\/p><div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"What World-Class Musicians Can Teach Us About Time Management\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=5191\" rel=\"bookmark\">What World-Class Musicians Can Teach Us About Time Management<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Your Inner Critic: How to Figure out its Kryptonite &#038; Give it a Makeover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=5078\" rel=\"bookmark\">Your Inner Critic: How to Figure out its Kryptonite &#038; Give it a Makeover<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Trust &#8211; THE Power Tool for Living Large\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=1676\" rel=\"bookmark\">Trust &#8211; THE Power Tool for Living Large<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Life Saving Tips for Better Work and Life Balance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=1185\" rel=\"bookmark\">Life Saving Tips for Better Work and Life Balance<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Perfectionism May Be A Disease, But A Little Bit Won&#8217;t Kill Ya\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=2601\" rel=\"bookmark\">Perfectionism May Be A Disease, But A Little Bit Won&#8217;t Kill Ya<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to my favourite tunes, I was happily trying on my clothes, seeing what still looked good and what would go to the thrift shop.&#50051;&#50050;&#49824;I was on a roll organizing my bedroom closet when something broke my concentration.There was a dirty glass on my nightstand.It was glaring at me. 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