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Being organised is to getting and keeping things in order …

• Organise: Arrange systematically; order.  Oxford Dictionary
• To know where one is going and what one wishes – this is order … to organize one’s life to distribute one’s time … all this belong to and is included in the word order. Henri F. Amiel
• Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke
• Order is heaven’s first law. Alexander Pope
• Order,  Effectiveness,  Productivity,  Getting Things Done,  Time management

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… the antidote to chaos

• We adore chaos because we love to produce order. C. Escher
• In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. Henry Adams
• It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. Hesiod (Works and Days)
• Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. Eliphas Levi
• Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up. A. Milne
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Being organised reduces anxiety

• Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. David Allen
• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius
• Don’t agonize. Organize. Jim Hightower
• The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered. Ervin Seale
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Being organised can create freedom…

• For the first twenty-five years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next twenty-five years, I wanted order. For the next twenty- five years, I realized that order is freedom. Winston Churchill
• Early in my career I felt that organization would destroy my creativity. Whereas now, I feel the opposite. Discipline is he concrete that allows you to be creative. Verna Gibson
• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively. Larry King
• For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
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… as long as it does not become a substitute for action or spontaneous living

• Organising often becomes an end rather than a means to a greater ends. Tremendous time can be spent organising rather than producing. Applied in excess, the strength of organising becomes a weakness. We can become over structured, nitpicking and inflexible. Stephen Covey
• I organise (categorize, streamline) only if it frees my mind and environment of clutter and distraction. If it frees me to create, love and explore. Organising is my servant, not a master. I keep it to specific periods. Graeme Myburgh
• If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments. Robert Townsend
• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all … it’s just about over. Sandra Hochman
• I see something that has to be done and I organize it. Elinor Guggenheimer
• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
• Get organised. Know where you are headed. But if something wonderful and unexpected comes along, be flexible enough to follow it. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Action,  Spontaneity

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Excessive organising can come from an excessive need to control life …

• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. Margaret J. Wheatley
• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. Denis Diderot
• When I cannot bear outer pressures any more, I begin to put order in my belongings… As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. Anaïs Nin
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… at heart, an impossible feat

• However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. Havelock Ellis
• The desire for order is the only order in the world. Georges Duhamel

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File things away as you go

• If your filing system isn’t fast, functional, and fun, you’ll resist the whole process. David Allen
• The key to keeping your filing system up to date is to file things right away. Leo Babauta
• In the fire zone of real work, if it takes longer than sixty seconds to file something, you won’t file, you’ll stack. David Allen
• The key to physical organizing is having a place for everything and everything in its place. Stever Robbins
• File stuff away according to how you plan to retrieve it. Stever Robbins
• Throwing things away rather than saving and filing them has been a big time saver for me. Brian Tracy

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Keep your environment tidy and uncluttered

• Keep both your living and working spaces organized, tidy and uncluttered. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A simple home is calming. Leo Babauta
• Clutter is stuck energy. The word “clutter” derives from the Middle English word “clotter,” which means to coagulate – and that’s about as stuck as you can get. Karen Kingston
• Bottom line is, if you do not use it or need it, it’s clutter, and it needs to go. Charisse Ward
• If you look at your entire house as one unit of junk, you’ll never do anything because the job is too overwhelming. Take it one drawer at a time.  Janet Luhrs
• Anyone who has ever cleaned out a closet knows how liberating it is. You feel lighter, your mind feels clearer.  Cecile Andrews
• As the house is cleaned, so the mind can be cleaned. As you enjoy a clean house, you will enjoy a clean and uncluttered mind. Remez Sasson
• Get rid of one thing a day for 30 days. We have so much clutter surrounding us at any given moment and we’ve become so accustomed to it that we no longer notice how it affects us.  If you start cleaning up some of this external clutter, a lot of internal clutter will disappear as well.  Choose one needless item each and every day and get rid of it.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
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Clear the desks regularly

• Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that’s impeding forward motion. David Allen
• End every day with a clean desk. Joe Sugarman
• Clear your desk of everything but the one thing that you are working on at the moment. Brian Tracy

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Have a designated place for things

• Have a good place for everything and everything in its place.
• Everything in its place. Clean as you go. Put it away now. Use a physical inbox and empty it. Keep a simple filing system.   Leo Babauta
• A place for everything, everything in its place. Benjamin Franklin
• Create a landing strip. When I get home, I empty my pockets and put everything onto a tray near my doorway. Keys, wallet, my ID, anything. This way it doesn’t get tossed on our counter or table, and I never have to look for it or forget it when I leave.  Leo Babauta
• Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying. Tryon Edwards

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Keep your system simple

• Make your organisation system usable. If it’s too difficult, you won’t use it. Keep it simple and usable — if possible, even fun — and you’ll be more likely to stick to the system.  Leo Babauta

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Organise information

• It is not how much space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is organized. Edward Tufte
• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. William Pollard

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
• Organize your life around your dreams – and watch them come true.
• Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps
• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order–willed, faked, and so brought into being. Anne Dillard
• Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. G. Wells
• An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements. Scott Belsky
• A large part of getting organized is learning to act from a place of self-esteem: knowing what we want and don’t want to do, knowing what we can and can’t do, and taking good care of ourselves. Marilyn Paul, Ph.D
• If you take it out, put it back. If you open it, close it. If you throw it down, pick it up. If you take it off, hang it up.  Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• Desk: A wastebasket with drawers Wall Street Journal
• A filing cabinet is a useful container where things can be lost alphebetically.
• One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. A. Milne
• I’m not really disorderly – it’s just that for my kind of order there’s never enough space. Ashleigh Brilliant
• I’m so busy, I haven’t got the time to get organised.
• If I were organised, I’d be dangerous.
• Organising is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. Milne
• One person’s mess is merely another person’s filing system. Margo Kaufman
• If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? Albert Einstein
• Heaven is an English policeman, a French cook, a German engineer, an Italian lover and everything organised by the Swiss. Hell is an English cook, a French engineer, a German policeman, a Swiss lover and everything organised by the Italians. John Elliott
• I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something — like, say, organization… Richelle Mead

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