QotD: Staying Organized

How do you stay organized? 
Submitted by devillibrarian. 

It's always cool know the person with today's QotD. :o)

For me, it's gone from being a battle to a lot of minor skirmishes.  Have a home for everything is my starting point.  It helps with the daily straightening, which is finally becoming an habit.  It helps that I've realized that I feel physically & mentally better when everything is neat and in its place, so I'm more likely do it.

Getting rid of things that don't have a home is the next step for me.  My default home these days is my office which is why it's normally a disaster.  So once I get that cleaned and purged, I think I'll be doing really really well.

The book I like (and need to work through with my office) is Julie Morgenstern's Organizing From the Inside Out.  I like her writing (and the one time I saw her on PBS, speaking) style and it makes sense to me.  I just need to follow it . . .