The Productivity Show #31 – An Orgy of Organising Tips!
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Today’s guest is Lissanne Oliver, author of Sorted! The Ultimate Guide to Organising Your Life – Once and For All and director of Sorted!, a Professional Organiser, who provides hands on organising of your home, your business, yourself. We talk about getting organised, not just online, but around the house and workplace. (Thank you Cait for putting me in contact with Lissanne)
Sorted! the Book – 40+ recipes for organising yourself in different situation.
Sorted the Company – Getting organised, consulting with people to have a better quality of life, and improve their time management.
Key Issues to getting Sorted! – Dealing with paperwork. Not having a handle on mess. Too much email. Feeling overwhelmed. A Perfect Mess – relationships and different mess areas. Time management in a relationship.
“Get on with it, or Get Over it!” – Commit to doing it, or let go, say no, do less. I’m letting it go.
Procrastination – Sometimes a good thing to making the right decision. But you can let others down with it. The choice . How to overcome indecisiveness. Perfectionism and Procrastination. If you don’t complete anything you can’t be judged.
Getting in Action – The cost of things not being in order and in action.
Getting Organised – A practised skill, like getting fit. We know how to do it, but we don’t always apply it.
“Don’t Put it Down, Put it Away!” – My 24 hour commitment to put everything away instead of putting it down. Opening mail over the rubbish bin, and file the mail after it’s opened. Completion. Coming back from holiday, but not unpacking. Lack of completion is fear of failure if you did complete it.
“Clutter is anything you Don’t Love, Don’t Use, or Don’t Need.” 82 Litre Bins! We expand to fill our space. If we move to bigger house, we fill the space. Set criteria for getting rid of clutter.
Managing Information Overload – Make friends with your Del key. Use it or chuck it out. Using desktop search to not be slave to filing.
Starting up the Sorted! Company – Professional Organisers.
The all time best quote – “She’s the kind of person who’d fold the clothes at an orgy!”
Tidy is a misconception – It’s more about being organised – planning, time management, decision making. Being in control and doing action, not being super neat. It’s organic and balanced. Flexibility.
Lissanne Oliver – Collector of Snow Domes!
Footballers’ Favourites – Eudora, Thunderbird, Nokia, The “Magazine” Home, More Nothing, Blondie, Abba, and Debbie Harry!