We own the messiest car in the world.  It’s hard to keep it clean and organized when you live with a family of slobs.  They make a mess and leave it.  It frustrates me that they don’t clean up when they get out of the car.

I would love a clean car!!

Unclutterer has some great advice on cleaning out your car.

The 3-Bag Approach

This tip comes from my book The Naked Desk: Along with your trash and recycling bins, bring three grocery bags with you when you clean out your car. Label the first one “Does Not Belong Here.” Write on the next one, “Give Away/Return,” and label the final one, “Storage.” Each bag will serve as a receptacle for the variety of things that found their way into your car. The “Does Not Belong Here” bag, for example, would be good for tossing in the spoons, client folders, and other items you want to keep but don’t belong in your vehicle. Return these items to their homes after you’ve completed your car uncluttering project.

We have already established that I am a Productivity Hobbyist.  I love trying new things and I love gadgets that are supposed to make my life easier.  Since I work online all day long, email is the thing thaat keeps me the busiest.  I have my favorite email apps that keep me Mostly Organized.  But, HawkWings just introduced me to another app that I just had to have.  FlagIt! 

Flagit! is a plug-in that offers Mail.app users customisable flags of as many different colours as you like, as well as question and exclamation marks.

I love a clean desk.  I rarely have a completely clean desk.  But, I do try to keep it clean.  My husband, on the other hand does not have a clean desk and rarely tries to clean it.  It bugs me to no end.  I can not understand how he even works on it.  You can’t even find a place to put a cup of coffee.  He boasts a sign on his desk (if you can find it) that reads, “A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind.”  He really believes this.  I think the sign is sick.  I  have pitched it in the trash a couple of times, but he digs it out and puts it back.

Unclutterer agrees with me, so I must be right.  At least I am Mostly Organized.

Keeping a clean workspace isn’t the only key to being successful at your job, but it doesn’t hurt. Yes, there are some people with tidy desks who don’t have the best work ethic and there are people with messy desks who are invaluable to their companies. But, as a rule of thumb, it can be more efficient to have a well organized workspace. An organized workspace allows you to focus on the task at hand rather than losing focus while looking for a misplaced paper or file.

LifeHacker has an interesting article on Productivity Hobbyists.  After reading certain statements I have come to my own conclusions about myself.

You’re likely a productivity hobbyist if:

• You frequently do things like re-purpose shoeholders to organize your gadgets.
• You have a t-shirt that says “David Allen has a posse.”
• You modify your GTD system on a weekly basis.
• You’ve ever emptied your geek bag, taken a picture, and then shared the picture with friends. 
• You seriously can’t wait for the next release of Remember the Milk or Better Gmail.
• You exchange “Moleskine hacks” with your friends over beer.
• You’ve ever spoken of “date hacks,” “marriage hacks,” “diet hacks,” “child hacks,” “food hacks,” “kitchen hacks,” “parents hacks,” “brain hacks,” or “inspiration hacks.”
• Your refer to David Allen as “The David.”
• You own all of the following: a label maker, digital voice recorder, PDA, hipster PDA, a large supply of binder clips, and an ebook reader (like like Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader.)

Yep, I am a Productivity Hobbyist, but in reality I am Mostly Organized.

Put Things Off has issued a challenge to Read One Book A Week. 

I’d like to delicately convince you in a suitably charming manner that reading one book a week is not just perfectly comfortable, but also mind-altering, life-changing, and jolly good fun too.

So here’s the challenge: starting next Monday, I’d like you to read one book a week for one month. Choose your first book and follow-up text right now. Go on. I’ll pop the kettle on while you do it. Don’t do it for me, though. Do it for you.

I have always been an avid reader, but since I spend so much time online I have neglected my reading habits.  I think I will pick up this challenge.  I am not sure I can go with one a week, but if I could get one a month in I would be happy at this point.

Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders talks about purging and purging big. 

My past attempts at removing clutter have consistently bottlenecked at a few common points. Often I wasn’t really committed to the idea of a full purge, so I’d ignore whole boxes of memorabilia. Other times, my goal was primarily aesthetic, so I’d end up shoveling things into pretty boxes and “organizers”. But I finally realized what’s reallybeen stopping me from accomplishing anything substantial. It’s so simple and so dumb that I’m embarrassed to admit it: my garbage can was too small.

I need to do some much needed purging also, but I think I need to buy a dumpster!

I hope to make this blog fun, informational and inspirational to all who seek to be Mostly Organized. I am not a fanatic, I am always seeking to improve my own organizational skills.  This blog will be to help me as much as anyone else and will serve as my own inspiration for improvement.  I hope you will join me in my quest.