If you look at the "About Me" tab you will see that I am a relatively active and work hard at many things. What it does not say that I have struggled for years with organization, time management and prioritizing and boundary creation and consistently maintaining those priorities and boundaries. Late in 2008 I was having major issues with cognitive skills and feared something was really wrong and went to a Psychologist for a workup and received good and bad news....
Good News was I was not crazy, mentally ill or loosing what little mental abilities I had... "okay" and the bad news is... well it was actually good news too, I have some "challenged" or Learning disabilities and that I am struggling so much now because I have exhausted by coping abilities and have surpassed my top range of abilities and need to make some adjustments. I do have a significant amount of total dyslexia, (Auditory, body position and physical awareness (right and left; up and down, sequence, ect..).
All of this made so much sense and helped me reassess and recreate myself and my living area, much to my husbands dislike and demise because he is very much the opposite of me in all things it seems. He is OCD and needs complete minimiziation and organization CONSISTENTLY. This was the hardest thing for me to figure out, AND the most painful for me and that is when I decided there had to be a way for two difference of style, needs and tastes to coexist comfortably and happily and I was determined to find it...
I tried several books and services and made some headway but not fast enough and with a good enough time frame to make things efficient and effective in our home and it was cause the little harmony we did have to reduce to a point of crisis. So, I enlisted a friend to help me and she listened to me for a few minutes and then talked with my husband and they shared many philosophies, tastes and styles and send began organizing things and then we ran into my main problem.... Lack of space and we cleaned out a closet and she had my husband make shelves in the closet to give more storage. (I almost jumped for joy and was so excited with the possibilities this opened up...AND then she cleaned off a bookshelf and started stacking up books and sorting them in two piles.. and before long she had arrange over half of my stuff to go elsewhere or to be given away... I was crushed... and so confused..how is this organizing and being efficient with what you have when you have to get rid of things you love... I listened and tried to see the benefits and soon I found that it only benefited someone who didn't mind not having the things they loved and projects they worked so hard on. I decided I had room to put this stuff in a shed on the outside of the house until I could reduce and organize things so I could put them in the closet too.
How and Why Uniquely Organized and Utilized was created........
I thought there has to be a better way, and I began constructing a simple process of setting the goals, need and wants of those that were involved. Looking at the items that were not being used and trying to sell them or barter them to raise money for supplies that were needed to help organize the items that were being kept. Create a space for the items desired to be utilized, organized and maintained. Evaluate the use and effectiveness of the system and functions until it improves the look and function of that area. Using as much of what is on hand, even if items are repurposed or altered it will save money and help avoid items of sitting around not being used and having to "try to sell them or give them away".
I became seeing some benefits and happy response and a friend saw what I was doing and wanted me to help her and we worked together to help her find "HER" system and she found ways to do the same and another and then I began "charging a little" and even family members paid me to help them organize spaces, hobbies, file cabinets, ect.. and I decided this could be something profitable and helpful for me in my unemployment status and for others and started telling people what I could do and posted emails looking for people looking for help and that was 2 years ago and here we are now and I am needing to make this become a formal business and have organized and streamlined the process and have expanded services that I am know confident to share and utilize my skills to help my personal and my family finances.
