re[frame] update
remember when i showed you this?
and this?
and do you remember when i blathered on about getting organized? my husband was excited when i revealed my plans to try out the reframe productivity system for creative people. however, many of you expressed your disappointment at my efforts to get my life in order. it seems that you LIKE seeing my disheveled mess of a life memorialized in photos and posted on the internet. furthermore, some of you have even confessed that these photos help you to feel better about yourselves. to this i say: a) you’re welcome, and b) don’t worry. there will always be plenty of chaos to go around.
today is day 16 of the program, and i am actually having fun with the process. my new file trays (labeled “do,” “file,” “delegate,” and “ideas”) assure that no stray papers ever hit my desk. my filing system is up to date for the first time since we moved into our current home (one year and eight months ago), and i now organize everything i need to do in this cute little vintage note card box:
now, instead of doing tasks according to when they pop into my head, i jot these little jobs down on cards and file them under the day on which i aim to do them. see?
yesterday, i began tackling my email inbox. if you are reading this, and you are wondering why i have not responded to the email you sent me in 75 B.C.E., it’s because re[frame] had not yet been invented back then. duh!
so now my office looks like this. it’s not perfect, and it never will be, but it’s definitely better:
and for those of you with appetites for other people’s slovenliness that cannot be satiated with the tangle of cords above, i submit to you my vanity:
this is where i like to store the occasional wine goblet and the toiletry bag i forgot to unpack after a trip to atlanta last october.
see, i told you that there will always be plenty of chaos to go around.
Tags: chaos, kitchen, note cards, office, organized, re[frame]
May 4th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Wow–we’re moving in 2 days and our house looks less chaotic than those top photos. Thanks so much for sharing. I like the notecards idea, but what I really like is your office setup. You’ll have to give me a heads-up on your carpenter!
May 4th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Thanks for sharing! I was excited to read your post since I just signed up for reframe and am getting set to do it as part of my sabbatical time. I’m on the hunt for a cute notecard box!
May 5th, 2010 at 8:31 am
Aaaaah, MA. I have flashbacks to a certain number of dorm rooms….:) As we are in the “showing our house” mode, I have decluttered over here. And am now getting the, “I expect our house to look like this from now on speech.” Ha! Maybe I should reframe… You are doing great!
May 5th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
So cool to see that the organization system is working! Awesome! And I have a roll of christmas wrapping paper in my work office that has been there since November 2008. It almost seems wrong to take it home at this point.