It’s the New Year, and that means New Year’s it’s time for New Year’s resolutions.
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, year in and year out, is to “get organized”. According to the National Association of Professional Organizers, who polled more than 400 adults last November, 71% of respondents felt that their quality of life would improve if they were more organized. 65 percent described their home as “at least moderately disorganized”, and 27 percent said disorder keeps them from being effective at work. Furthermore, 96 percent of respondents believe that better organization could save them precious time every day, with 30 percent of respondents reporting that they could save at least 30 minutes each day, and 15 percent of respondents felt they could save more than an hour each
day.
To put that in perspective, 30 minutes a day adds up to a whole week every year. An hour a day adds up to fifteen days — that’s more than two weeks — each year.
If you’re an adult with ADD, chances are that you’re more disorganized than most, and that getting organized will be more of a challenge than it might be for other folks. You may have started your New Year’s organizing resolution and gotten stuck. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. The Adult ADD declutter group, in association with addclasses.com, is meeting for the next three weeks to provide an online chat forum to support its members in decluttering. The cost is $147 for three classes, but if you sign up by January 8th, it’s only $47.
I’ve had good luck with long-distance group coaching in the past. It tends to work best if you’ve already gotten a toe-hold in your organizing project; for instance, if you know what you need to know, but are having trouble motivating yourself, or if you’ve already set up a system that you need to maintain. So check it out, and good luck!