Let's get organized before the holidays!

It’s been snowing here in CNY, and it’s actually symbolic, because it reminds me of how the duties and responsibilities of my life “snow” on top of me: working a full-time job (that I love, BTW), going grocery shopping, filling up the car with gas, getting my hair done, doing the laundry and picking up the dry cleaners, keeping the house organized, running a small business, sorting through holiday junk mail that I didn’t request, getting financial literacy “out there”...

This weekend—the weekend before Thanksgiving houseguests arrive—I am going to make a conscientious effort to get organized. I thrive on organization and on being organized. Always have (just ask my Mom); always will. It just makes things flow so much easier, but after navigating a hectic week, the house alone looks like the tazmanian devil has been chasing the Road Runner in our house. (You know—you take off your clothes and bundle them into a corner instead of hanging them up because you have to hurry and get dinner on the stove).

I once saw on Oprah where we can’t expect new things to come our way if our lives are cluttered with both tangible (household junk) and non-tangible things (a million activities). I’m clearin’ it out, so here I come…