Discard what you don’t need.
Put the rest together in a sensible place.
Designate a home for every item.
Get in routines of putting things away and cleaning, taking care of business.
If you get overwhelmed trying to deal with it all, then you have to break it down into chunks of a project, chunks of time that you can handle.
A really basic way of looking at organizing is that it is a tool for anticipating needs, planning a way to handle them before a crisis…no matter what it is. These are basic predictable steps to take to maintain your needs…and it isn’t stuffy or boring…because the less time you spend doing that stuff, the MORE time you have left to ENJOY the things you WANT to do.
If you are organizing a room, you assess what you have that you need in that room, bring those items to the area, and put them in places where they are available when you need them.
If you are organizing finances, you assess the paperwork you need, bring those items to sensible places, and plan tasks to occur at a sensible time (such as paying the elec bill before your lights get shut off)
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This in addition to just asking around. Pick people’s brains. Ask someone who is organized, to explain their systems to you. What did it look like before? Why did you sort them this way? How do you find these tools? How do you know where to put it? This is kind of like asking a thin person how they eat, in order to lose weight…and the same warning. Just as a fat person doesn’t want to learn from an anorexic, nor does a sloppy want to learn organizing from an obsessive perfectionist.
Re: hypnosis, I have a lot of things to say…mainly comes down to you don’t need to hire someone to give you subliminal suggestion to get organized.
Your hypnosis is your attitude. Nothing more. It is faith in yourself. You have defeated yourself in your question by saying you are over your head. If you think this then you ARE over your head. If you think instead…"I will use my skills of gathering information to gain skills in organizing."…well, then you will get somewhere.
Hypnosis is nothing more than a relaxed state of mind where you convince yourself of things. You can pay someone to give you suggestions of being organized (and script it out for them if that isn’t their specialty), or you can do it yourself. Awake or asleep, you must believe it is possible for you, visualize it, encourage yourself to go there, and lead yourself to the goals you want to achieve.
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