Can you be over organized

If you are hopelessly worried about appearances and having nothing out-of-place, especially to the detriment of other things in your life, the answer may be yes. Essentially this—if your home is immaculate on the surface, but open the wrong closet door and Bam! You need to work on being organized so that you can live comfortably.

Definition of overorganize. Morgan When you feel like you are doing three steps when you could be doing just one, you are overorganizing … — Lanna Nakone. First Known Use of overorganize , in the meaning defined above. Learn More About overorganize. Time Traveler for overorganize The first known use of overorganize was in See more words from the same year.

Statistics for overorganize Look-up Popularity. Effective organizing is just as you describe; observing your own habits and inclinations and devising solutions that work for you. Hi Claire, good to hear from you. Wow — love this article. It describes my organizational process which I never considered organized until reading this.

I always find it funny that people think I am so organized. If only they saw my desk and piles! That optimum balance of creativity and organization is also my goal.

Thanks for the great article. I use several of these low tech solutions too! Why do these work for me? I get anxious and find it difficult to work with too much clutter.

I found myself either spending three times the time I should have on doing all this…or I would miss appointments because I happened to look at a calendar that had not been updated.

The Mish-mash system has been working well for me all these years, but I was feeling like I needed to make a change. I was starting to feel uncomfortable about not getting things done like I used to. I esp. After a week or two of using it, I feel much more peaceful and on top of things.

Great article! I enjoy a certain amount of creative chaos and feel I have a fairly good balance of organization and chaos. I keep my weekly to-do lists in there and have tabs for them so I can flip through them quickly. Like Ken, I flip through often and use this to get an overview of my work world. I do waste time flipping through but only feel bad about it when someone is watching.

Great insights. You get a huge boost in productivity just by knowing where everything is. Time management if it gets too complex can actually lower productivity because of the overhead of complex and time consuming systems.

I kept a mishmash notebook for years, calling it The Book of All Knowledge. It is the single most useful organizing tool I know and works for anyone in any situation.

Mark fantastic article! Once we got back on track, he took one look at the way I had my email folders organized. I had a parent folder for each one of our clients, with sub-folders for completed projects, unfinished projects, and organized those by other categories.

It was the most organized mess, and I was completely blind to it. Thankfully, Yaniv explained that he used to do the same thing, but found it to be too cumbersome to maintain. He also noted that, while it saved some time, in the end it probably took more to actually organize it that way than it would to have done nothing. Afterward, I had to spend time just to disorganize and reorganize the folders into a much simpler system.