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Greetings, Chaos Demons, and welcome to the second installment of my series on Taming the Paper Tiger — how to create a filing system that works with your ADHD. I’ve never had a functioning filing system before, and setting it up is proving to be more emotionally challenging than I thought. As I mentioned yesterday, I [...] OK, Chaos Demons, this is the moment of truth. I am going to test my organizational skills with the ultimate challenge. I’m about to attack my filing cabinet.
Here's where I dumped all the papers from my old file cabinet — the pile on my kitchen table. So far, here are the steps I [...] Well, I did it. After a year of allowing my kitchen table to become submerged under an ever-growing pile of random clutter, I finally reclaimed it:
It's a work table with work on it, even. This is exactly the kind of work I need to be able to do on this table. I have [...] In my last post, which was supposed to be published last week and instead was published yesterday, I wrote that I was going to do some maintenance organizing on my art studio. Since I did a major re-org last Spring, I thought it would be pretty easy — just put stuff away, do some cleaning, [...] I haven’t been blogging much lately. My offline life has been pretty hectic, as I mentioned in last week. But I got through a great big deadline yesterday, so I hope to get back to blogging, organizing, and blogging about organizing. The deadline in question was the final critique for my art class, a self-directed painting [...] It was on the bookshelf. Duh. In my defense, it's sort of camouflaged. My offline life has been pretty chaotic lately, so I haven’t been blogging much. My husband started a new job, I’ve been looking for work, and to top it all off I’m recovering from a TDaP shot (that’s tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis, which used to be a childhood thing, but I guess they decided I [...] It’s a well-known truism in ADHD literature that stress makes everything worse. I’ve been a bit frazzled lately, what with looking for a day job, and getting rejected (or just ignored), and having a looming deadline, and my partner starting a new job with a crazy commute, and global warming and world hunger and baseball. And [...] |
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