Tell your satellite sisters and public radio station Send Satellite Sisters to a Friend Press Room Buy Tapes from the Show Creating Order out of Chaos Andrew Mellen, a.k.a. Virgoman, just may be the world's most organized person. This week he came on our show to discuss cures for the organizationally challenged. Here is some of what we learned. You're not so special.
Many disorganized people think that they're more disorganized than anyone else.
Everyone, and we mean everyone, is capable of getting more organized. If you can't quite deal with the clutter that surrounds you, it's better not to make global plans about cleaning up your life and putting everything away in a day. Deal with a room, a desk, a drawer, but be realistic. If you start with a massive project, then four or five hours into it you're going to get tired or hungry, abandon the whole thing, and end up with a bigger mess than what you started with. Sort like objects together.