Requests Video – Self Organization!
By admin on Feb 22, 2010 with Comments 25
So this is a new thing I’ll be doing pretty regularly! Every Wednesday in my blogtv show, we’ll pick something for the Saturday video. I recognize that I might sound a bit crazy in this video… but it’s honestly just how I am 
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I want to know what app to do list you use! lol
I’ve seen so many but curious which one you use… Love this video. I’d love more videos on organization.
WOW! You rock!
Thanks for posting this!
The guy is Merlin Mann and he IS goofy. He invented Inbox Zero and the website 48 Folders and he’s a genius
If you scroll below the video, you’ll see a link to “What is Inbox Zero?” — follow that link to another page, and click to watch the inbox zero VIDEO (one of the bullet points). That’s what you want.
Thanks!
Kitty!!!!
yay us !!!!!!! i thought I was the only crazy overly organized person u make me feel normal (ok well not normal nut not alone )
Its hard not to stare at your supercute cat btw XD
The inbox site led me to the 48 site but all I found was some goofy guy making video there – not a system?
LOVE the idea of making a list of everything I have done each day – there are many days I feel like I spent all day doing nothing and I feel guilty. In reality I did do things and seeing it would help.
Last note – I hope you never lose your biz black book! or you at least have a copy of it.
VERY helpful video – Thanks
Ah.. I’m in Australia… that’d be why I can’t find it!
I found a useful alternative, though the layout isn’t as nice as LoseIt! It’s called Edibles, for any aussies or non-us/canadian watchers out there!
Thank you
as far as I know it’s still available… only in the US and Canada though, i think
I didn’t mean in a wrong way…and I didn’t say you weren’t working…I meant to say when you’re at work all day and taking care of a “family” cooking, cleaning, baseball games, etc etc it’s hard to keep track with all things you showed us…..you’re right everyone should have their own organization system….
I’ve been looking for the LoseIt! application for my new iphone… do you know if it’s available anymore? I can’t find it at the App Store!
i love your interior design, gorgeous!
I recommend you read a book called Getting Things Done by David Allen
Great book.
thank god that i don’t have to track my period ._.
I have two kids (one of which is disabled) and just starting a job from home and I don’t have time to NOT track. If I don’t track things, I get overwhelmed and it takes so much more time to figure out the “mess” I create if I don’t keep track.
I loved it when your cat out of nowwhere just ran as fast as it could. That was so cute and very funny…
Thanks to you both. I do have filing cabinets, which I replaced several plastic filing boxes, and categorized. I prefer the portability, and that they could fit into the sideboard in my living room.
Papers seem to pile up way to fast, I guess I have to create a disciplined routine (which goes totally against my creative nature) that I can somehow stick to every day, to stop the build up of papers. I never seem to have enough time to process them.
Love this direction you’re taking!
Fantastic points and you have a lot going for you! Great job for someone at your stage in your life.
YOU are gr8 im a mom of two that is so overwhelmed i gave up on everything i mean everything i don’t know how to be organized or do anything anymore how do i start?
I learned all this from people with children and work. I’m confused what you think I do with my time if you don’t think I’m working…?
“Self” is when I take time to sit back and chill, go out with friends, play with my cat, read a book, meditate, what have you… It’s down time, and time AWAY from the computer. Time to clear my head.
“Other” is time spent on my many hobbies, or getting things done beyond the main 3 businesses. I have 3 additional businesses that I run, so if I work on one of those… Or time spent on a hobby I only do sometimes – sewing, crocheting, studying French, whatever
<3
This is still my personal channel…
NO problem with double comments
I typically try to spend about 1/3 my week total on daily to-do. If something is taking up too much of my time, I try and find a way to either make it more efficient or outsource it so I have more time for important things. Typically I will spend all of Monday and Tuesday doing “need-to-do” things, and some of Wednesday. Then the end of Wed and all of Thurs and Friday are for projects.