Organisation

[Kilala]

When it comes to organization I always go in there with high hopes. I plan out stuff… assign a place to something in my head… and rarely follow through. Very pathetic I know... ;_;
I think it has something to do with my procrastination gene <_< Mwahahaha…

So to the point. I was curious as to what everyone’s organization skills here. Have you any tips for the truly hopeless like myself?
Although when I went to school I had thousands of folders, post its, files and stuff… but sometimes even those got wrecked <_<.
Soon I go to Uni.. and I need the inspiration and tips xD. Or I’m going to be lost in a pile of nonsense.

Also what comes with lack of organization… Ever had the missing sock problem? Or you put your keys down somewhere and they just… disappear? =o.o= The gremlins got em again ^~.

Oh! And if you have any proud organization moments tell all! < --- I know that sounds weird… but even I’ve had those.

For example, when revising I would go through my books and assign each topic with a particular coloured post it. They would all be aligned perfectly and look beautiful! And there was the time where I categorized and alphabetized all the DvD’s in my home… I had such a great feeling then. Proud. (And then we moved and they got all muddled. That brought on anger @_@)


So yes, share all with fellow members here =^_^=.

[ladysilver]

Oh no... I'm so not organised and i am a serious procrastinater even though I hate losing stuff lol. I do try to be organised but it just doesn't work.. before i turn around twice its exactly the way it was before I started *grimace*. I think its a sub-concious rebellion against my mother who keeps her house looking like a museum lol. I also have way too much stuff that I horde - you never know when that old charger or spare clock might come in handy! *goes off to find that old copy of her favorite magazine*

[celebrity.skin]

When it comes to meeting people or going places, I plan everything right out until the last detail. I hate having to wait people when you've already confirmed a specific time with them, or them ****ing up already-made plans. Drives me nuts.

But when it comes to school, work, etc. I was/am the laziest person ever. I asked for a yearly planner for Christmas and got one. That's been working out alright for me... so far...

[KeybladerXIII]

Don't talk to me about organization. I got papers 3 years old sticking out of my binder, but I'm too lazy to do anything about them. I'm like Shikamaru from Naruto, everything is a huge drag and too troublesome.

[Led Zeppelin]

I'm an organizational maniac <.< >.>...Everything has to be in order and if it isn't it will be after I notice it =]...I organize work for school by having a binder that only has things that are due soon in it...So that right when the days done I don't need to remember what subject had what homework because I put it all neatly in that one binder >.>... It works for me...I also label things and try not to make two different sucjects share a binder since it can get messy =]

[Govinda]

My two year's worth of university work is currently in a pile on the floor, underneath a photo album, a panini maker, and my rent/admin stuff pile. My notes are spread across whichever notebook was nearest that particular day. My flat is permentantly a biohazard zone, and my boyfriend says that I am a black hole for lighters, socks, and batteries. I've had to tie my phone to a specific part of my big bag because I lost it so frequently. Someone once said to me that I am organised because I have a diary, until I told them that were my required daily events not recorded to remind me I would probably never leave the house (said diary is keyper'd onto bag because if I lost it I would actually die).

So no, I'm not organised. I've never really been able to understand people who are.

[Clint]

I'm pretty organized. I have a particular place for everything, because before I invented the rule for myself to place everything back down exactly where it was, I would always lose it. I'm pretty sure my still-developing obsessive compulsive disorder has something to do with that, as well. As for paperwork from school, I'll go through it every night before a class the next day, and any work that I don't need, I remove and recycle. The rest of the paperwork, I keep in a particular folder which I designate to one particular class. I literally never lose anything, because that's just how awesome I am.

[Sinister]

I was always told that it would save my life someday... Organization, that is...

But like advise, so easily heard but rarely heeded. I'm not organized. I'm chaotic to the point of surrealism. I find it makes life more interesting than trying to fit it in boxes that are too small for it.

But there, you go. I offer no apologies. I am cleanly and tidy...but unorganized.

-Sin

[Chez Daja]

I'm pretty organized. I have a particular place for everything, because before I invented the rule for myself to place everything back down exactly where it was, I would always lose it.

I tried to do this for such a long time and failed just because I'd still end up putting it somewhere else.

I can testify that being too organised can be bad for you. I say that as a person who's generally very organised himself. Sean, I totally know what you mean with organisation when it comes to programming. I still put comments everywhere and can't rest until I feel any level of programmer could look at my code and understand it. None-the-less, I'm starting to become less organised lately, and I feel good for it.

Congrats, Neo. Maybe if I spend more time reading your posts, some of your orgasnization will rub off on me.

In seriousness, with my college work, I was always meticulous -- same with cleaning. My home and self are always clean... But I'm quite messy. That said, at least it's clean mess.

[Fate]

Me? Organized? I wish!

Seriously, I am about one of the most unorganized person to ever walk the Earth. Almost every day, I lose a different thing, and I spend about a half an hour looking for it. And finally, I find out that I had actually hidden it, and now I just have to remember the hiding place! One time, I even looked all over the house, and when I reached inside my pockets, I found it! It was such a sad day and such a complete waste of time.

My room is always as messy and as chaotic as a junkyard! My mom always yells at me to clean it up after she gets home from school. I usually don't even make my bed after I wake up, and once I take something out, it either gets pushed beneath my bed or flung across the room to an unknown destination. Half the time I reach my hand somewhere, there is something there!

And the worse is school! Just yesterday, I had to turn in a paper in my English class, and I clearly remembered putting it inside my backpack. When I got to school, I couldn't find it! After about ten minutes of searching, I remembered which place in my backpack it was, and I was so lucky, too because I only had a few minutes left. Some times, I would even forget my homework completely, and I end up getting an F for that assignment. It's happened not once, not twice, now three times, but more times than I can even remember!

I envy those people who are organized! How do you even stay that organized? I wish I was; then I wouldn't have to go looking everywhere around the house for stuff and waste half an hour of my precious time! I've tried time and time again to be organized, but it always ends in a complete failure! So I gave up. I accepted the fact that I am never going to be organized; I have to learn to live with digging through random stuff for things that I need!

[Sean]

I'm so OCD that organization comes somewhat naturally, but only when it comes to specific things.

My room is a mess 99.99% of the time, except for right now since I cleaned it for no real reason, mainly because my spring semester ended today and I was hunting down all the papers I had left over to be rid of them once and for all and get all my books together to go resell them tomorrow.... I generally have clothes and papers and books EVERYWHERE.

Files on my computer, the way I write programs, the thoroughness I put into everything I do that involves a computer.... it's so organized in a beyond perfect manner. I've rewritten entire subsections of code before because I didn't like the way it would execute. In high school I also had comments every 3-4 lines to walk my teacher through what my program was doing, I soon learned when I got better at programming that, if you know the syntax and logic, you don't need comments to know what's going on. Oh dear I've gone off on a tangent....


I'm a half and half organized individual. With school work I'm generally really well organized, and at work I drilled the phrase mise en place* into my head so many times organization came with ease. With life and my living quarters... it's organized chaos. It looks a ****ing mess to those on the outside, but I always know where everything's at.



*Mise en place - French term used by professional cooks, directly translated means things in place. It's another way of saying "get all your shit together and organized or you're going to get weeded so ****ing fast tonight that I'm kicking you off the line and probably firing you."

[Dr_Flea]

Im never organised really id like to be but im unnattuarrly lazy and when i think about getting things organised i just flop back on the bed and sleep for a couple of hours. (Napping is Great!!!)

but no i think if i cleaned my room now i wouldn't find anything because as of now i know where everything is in the midst of alllll the junk. im an impulse buyer so i have stuff everywhere examples: I have a 12 inch replica of Captain Jack Sparrow that talks, a 8 inch Vincent Valentine Replica, about 250 cds, a Replica helmet like the one out of Gladiator and a 6ft Claymore amongst all the other junk strewn all over the place.

So no im not organised id like to be but im lazy!!

~Dr_Flea~

[Neo Necron]

I can testify that being too organised can be bad for you. I say that as a person who's generally very organised himself. Sean, I totally know what you mean with organisation when it comes to programming. I still put comments everywhere and can't rest until I feel any level of programmer could look at my code and understand it. None-the-less, I'm starting to become less organised lately, and I feel good for it.

When driving a long route I was unfamiliar with, since I do not own a sat-nav, I used to sit on google maps and work out a route very thoroughly, taking notes of notable landmarks near my turns in fear of getting lost (seriously OCD). It came to a point where I realised how long I was taking to do it, and then realised that actually getting lost and trying to fix that would be less stressful than sitting there trying to plan the route perfectly. In similar drives I have done since, I have gotten lost, but found my way again, and with much less stress than obsessively trying to plan ahead. Obviously, I still look at the general route on a map, I just don't sit there forever.

In short, my philosophy is that it's good to organise something, but only up to a point where the organisation is still less stressful than winging it when what you are organising comes around.

Side-tracking somewhat, I tend to get VERY irritated with people who are not organised. I'm very punctual myself and other peoples' lateness especially irritates me. So many excuses for it ultimately could have been avoided. Accidents and circumstances completely out of your control (such as traffic jams) are the only excuses, really. Though when you have to go somewhere, if you keep an eye on the time and aim to be ready 5 or 10 minutes before you need to leave, you have more time to deal with the unexpected circumstances and are thus more likely to be on time. It's really not hard.

[RamesesII]

We all have a bit of OCD within us but some more than others, my organisation is more routine than anything everything has to be routine i prepare my lunch for work the next day and i prepare my breakfast on the bench ready for the morning and my work clothes are on the end of the bed ready to put on, lmao i just remembered i cleaned the whole of our work shed today and hung a heap of tools on the wall and packed everything up neatly.
The bloke i work with makes fun of me when he catches me cleaning up but he thinks like me so he knows where i put everything so he doesn't mind lol. Where as my wife is the total opposite she is unorganised and leaves everything lying around its my biggest peeve lol anyone would think that i am the woman and she is the man.