When I am confronting personal organization tasks - especially tackling stacks of accumulated papers or paring down boxes of personal items - I work in categories of
Immediate Go - garbage
Short Term Keep
Mid-Range Keep
Long Term Keep
At some point in the future I look through one category of stuff and decide if items should move to a different category.
The short-term keep piles are usually things that I’m just not ready to let go of. Maybe next time I’ll be ready to send them away or they won’t have a purpose (expired coupons) or maybe I’ll figure out these are “long term” keep.
Conversely, the next time I look at the long term keep stuff I might decide some things are “immediate go”.
When I am confronting personal organization tasks - especially tackling stacks of accumulated papers or paring down boxes of personal items - I work in categories of
Immediate Go - garbage
Short Term Keep
Mid-Range Keep
Long Term Keep
At some point in the future I look through one category of stuff and decide if items should move to a different category.
The short-term keep piles are usually things that I’m just not ready to let go of. Maybe next time I’ll be ready to send them away or they won’t have a purpose (expired coupons) or maybe I’ll figure out these are “long term” keep.
Conversely, the next time I look at the long term keep stuff I might decide some things are “immediate go”.
Excellent advice!