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Organizing, ADD, and Allergy Hell

I haven’t been updating either of my blogs much lately. This is partly due to drama in my offline life — like one in ten Americans, I am unemployed and looking for work. I’m spending most of my time these days sending out resumes and coverletters into various black holes, where I never [...]

My Organizing Journey: Getting Started — The Staging Area and the Big Sort

There’s a lot of wisdom in the old adage “A Place for Everything and Everything In Its Place”. However, if your space hasn’t been organized before, most of what you own does not yet have its own “place”. This is why it’s important to set aside a portion of your home as a [...]

My Organizing Journey: Getting Started — What’s Working? What’s Not?

After identifying Activity Zones,  my clutter buddy and I talked about what was functioning well in each area, and what needed to be fixed. I was overwhelmed by the mess, and initially felt that nothing at all, anywhere in my kitchen, was working. Jana pointed out that the Cat Zone was not only functional, but [...]

My Organizing Journey: Getting Started — Identifying Activity Zones

The big day had arrived. My clutter buddy was at my home and by the end of that day I would, come hell or high water, have made some progress on organizing my home. My confidence had received a boost from learning that my apparently chaotic surroundings were actually a somewhat functional attempt [...]

My Organizing Journey, Step 2: It’s Better Than You Think

Last week I started writing up my organizing journey from it’s very beginnings in the fall of 2004.  Since the continuation of my entryway project now rests on things beyond my control (like somebody buying my bike and my clothes), I’ve decided to spend a few posts continuing that story.  Today’s post isn’t about taking [...]

SquidNews! I won the “Animals and Nature” contest at WiWon.

Last week I wrote about perfectionism and ADD.  I had spent 20 hours writing a lens for a Squidoo contest, even though I deliberately picked a topic that I thought would be easy and quick.

Well, my perfectionism was not in vain, because I won the contest!  Yay!  You can check out my lens here.

The perfect is the enemy of my enemy is my … wait, what?

This weekend I wrote a Squidoo lens about tabby cats.

Why tabby cats?

Well, a Squidoo community that I’m a part of has been having weekly contests, and last week’s was to write a lens for the “animals and nature” category.  I figured this would be good for me; all of my lenses to date have been [...]

My Organizing Journey Begins

My organizing journey began in the fall of 2005 when a friend of mine called me with an interesting proposition.

“I think we should help each other get organized”, she said.

I was stunned. “Get organized? Help each other?” I asked. “How can I be any help to you at all? You’re pretty [...]

Welcome to Well-Ordered Chaos

Well-ordered chaos is a blog about getting organized as an adult with ADD.

If you have ADHD, you may feel like organization is simply beyond you. If you’re at all like me, you’ve tried and failed dozens of times to get organized, probably starting in the first grade. I lost homework, school textbooks, [...]