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Fatigue and time pressure, have done more damage to families than nothing else. It’s ” the almost universal condition of fatigue and time pressure. This also leaves every member of the family exhausted and harried. Many of them have nothing left to invest in their marriages or in the nurturing of children.

Still there is hope for change. Though we have different pressures than people experienced in his era, we can still make choices that help us manage out time wisely and find ways that are best for our loved ones.

Try making the effort now. Often we gain relief from the frustration of wasted time only when we take the time now to put a method in place that will  save time later. Set up your phone to use automatic dialing. This is one of the best time savers available. Invest  fifteen minutes in learning how to program the phone, then enter the numbers you call regularly. You’ll be amazed by the time you’ll save in the future as you eliminate the need to search for those numbers.

Delete junk faxes. If you have a fax machine, you probably receive a lots of faxed messages you don’t want. You can be easily eliminate junk faxes  or ads. ( Can you believe companies have the nerve to use your pper and ink to send you their advertisement, in your home, without your permission? I don’t want to refinance my house, invest in penny stocks, buy insurance, or do any of the other things those faxes are pushing, and I surely don’t want to pay for their unwanted sales pitch. Thanks for letting me vent. I feel better already) to eliminate junk faxes, scan the fine print for instructions on how to call to be removed from the company’s marketing list. This call is usually an automated, toll-free number, and you can complete the process in a jiffy. I have done this many times, and it definitely stops unwanted faxes. As time goes by, however, new faxes, like weeds, will drift in and need to be eliminated as well.

If a simple solution can meet your needs, by all menas, embrace it! Think kiss, keep it super simple. You’ll make moving towards a more organized life easy if you kiss your way to order. You can do less laundry. Pass out one towel per person a week. Change bedsheets every two weeks or more. Wear clothes more than once, when you can. ( Slacks, skirts and lightly worn tops often can be worn several times between washings) Redirect children who want to change clothes (and towels) more than is needed.

Wear glasses that darken automatically  in the sun. my path was strewn with lost sunglasses before I changed over to a prscription pair that turn dark in sunlight and beome clear again in the shade.

You can cover you bed with a comforter or thick quilt. A fluffy topper hides a multitude of wrinkles underneath. Perfectionist,especially, spend too much time trying unnecessarily to straighten the sheets and blankets. The main questions is whether it “passes” as a made bed.

Cook with nonstick cookware and replace it when it starts to stick. It cleans so easily. Sometimes all you have to do is swipe it with a little soap and water and put it back. It’s far easier than putting it in and taking it out of the dishwasher. Avoid complicating your life with innovations that don’t work for you. For instance, I tried the rechargeable-battery approach. It promise all good things. I approved of the savings and the ecological benefits. The only problem was that I never was able to use it. Remembering which batteries needed charging and which didn’t , and where each group was kept, was just too complicated for me. Undoubtedlt many people do it asily and can’t understand what my problem is. I don’t fully understand it either. The only thing I know is that for me buying already charged batteries is the best way (no, the only way) to go.

Sometimes the simple solution means giving up a complicated organizational trick. I confess that in my pursuit of order I tried keeping my spices alphabetized. I quickly found it more trouble than it was worth. There were numerous occasions when I have overorganized, only to abandon my system for something more effective and easier

I’m not one to keep on top of everything, nor am I one who follows a list in a mechnical way. I’d best be described as a strong focuser.

My style does involve makinglists of things to do so they won’t drift off my mental radar screen. So, referring to my list, I gather the materials, information, or whatever is required to move forward. I observe the time. Then suddenly I get the urge to do the job. Using a touch of spontaneity, like a spider that feels an insect hit her web, I jump into action.

Becoming aware of my own style helps me keep my priorities in mind, I seem to accomplish a lot. If I tried to force myself to use other, “bette” methods, which are not my style, I would end up doing very little, I suspect. Then I would berate myself for proscrastination and laziness.

So here’s the key: Tune in to what works best for you. Use that method as your main approach for getting things done. Sometimes you may switch to one of the other ways of approaching tasks, or you may use a combination. Whichever approach you take, make sure yu just do it.

A disorganized life is, at its core, annoying. Maybe you’ve learned to live with it and have ignored it so often that you barely notice anymore. Like a shoe that oinches or the noise on a busy street near your home, you’ve learned to tune it out, to a degree. But it still hurts.

Stop. Don’t do this to yourself anymore. Tune in to your negative feelings. Turn up the volume on them. Let them bubble to the surface and stay there. Zoom in on the “little” things that are diminishing the quality of your life.

Simply admitting to yourself how these annoying problems make you feel is the first big step towards solving them. Really.

Let the irritation energize you. Let it propel you toward finding a solution that works-one that sends your old friend annoyance packing. And it feels so good to get that rock out of the shoe.

There are two reasons people take the trouble to channge how they live. The first is a desire for harmony. These people simply want to live more beautifully and peacefully.

Others, however, seek change as a desperate attempt to relieve the discomfort of disorganization and the pain of clutter. They’re powerfully motivated to do what it takes to ends the frustration they feel.

There are reasons to be annoyed. That said, go ahead and be annoyed. It’s okay. It’s even desirable. be very, very annoyed when you can’t find your tax information. But you have no choice, you have to search doggedly for the lost papers. You need to mail a letter but don’t have stamp. So you put the letter aside, hoping you’ll remember where you put it when you finally buy a stamp. In the meantime, the letter become hopelessly lost.

The new lightbulb you need is stored high on a shelf behind a precariously balanced pile of stuff. Touch it, and everything will tumble. So you put off replacing the burned out bulb. In the meantime, you strain to see in the dimness.

You can’t find clothes that match. You do the best you can to put together an outfit quickly so you’re not late-again. You can’t invite people into your house because it’s just too messy. You can learn to live without the companionship you always hoped you’d enjoy in your home. Making excuses to keep people out has become automatic.

You forget the birthday  of your favorite Aunt, who may not have many more birthdays left. You planned to send her a sweet card, but you don’t have a system for remembering these kinds of occasions. Regret over mistakes like this often clouds days that should have been happy.