3 Simple Tricks to Organizing Yourself.

I am an extremely organized person.  In my head.  To you, my desk might look like a bomb hit it.  But I know where everything is, where everything needs to be, and what each item is doing in its place.  Even so, I’m constantly reading up on tips to stay being an organized person…reading books about getting organized…watching Oprah’s Peter Walsh about getting organized…and organizing notes on organized organization in my organizationally organized organization of an office.

To help you stay much better organized than even me (whose personal slogan could be “Organized Beyond Organization”), here are 3 useful tools to be an organized person:

1. Goolendars.

Why don’t more people know about Google Calendar (or Goolendar)?  It saves lives.  Not only does it sync to every device out there, you can create multiple calendars within one view and have others edit it along with you.  Create one Goolendar for each client, one for each family member…and no matter where you are, you will always be able to access what you’re doing next.

Recommended use:  When your husband forgets yet again about the meeting you scheduled for Wednesday evening and he went ahead and scheduled his own “meeting” (making beer with neighbor friends), create a Goolendar so that he has no excuse to forget again.  Goolendars afford you the opportunity, once you’re both agile users, to stop speaking to each other ever again and just communicate via Google.

2. Tweetfunnel.

You signed up to use Twitter, you regularly post to it either from your computer or on-the-go by texting to “40404,” and you’ve even interacted a few times by directing a comment to @foundingmom and other followers.  But you still question why Twitter is essential to your business and feel very disorganized on there.  Enter Tweetfunnel.  Once you sign up and enter search terms like “working moms,” Tweetfunnel will send you an update (frequency of update is up to your choosing) including all tweets that use your search term.

Recommended use:  Upon receipt of a Tweetfunnel alert, you see a tweet by @somemoron that says “working moms should stop ignoring their kids and get back into the kitchen, barefoot.”  You can then retweet that post with your thoughts on the matter, direct a message to that user, or shout from the Twittertops to UNFOLLOW said moron.  Not that I’ve had any experience with such an example.

3. Pens.

Need I remind you about pens?  With all this technology being foisted onto our already full-to-the-brim brains, it’s easy enough to forget about the pen.  Those poor manufacturers came up with such a huge selection (ballpoint, felt-tip, rollerball, fountain) that you might as well just use them.  Grab that good ol’ paper, whip out a nice Pilot or a sweet Paper Mate, and make an old-fashioned list that you can tape to your door, thanks to the good folks at Scotch.

Recommended use:  Jot down all your to-do’s that Doomi, Teux Deux and Sticky Notes just can’t help with…because you’ll only remember to do those things when not at your computer or near your blackberry/iPhone.  Avoid another week of starvation because you forgot to buy groceries again.  I mean, the Bible wasn’t written with a personal computer, was it?