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The first thing you want to do is establish some routines. If you have no children and are bringing home a child, or adding a business, then you need to think about the routines you will start when your life changes. Then keep those routines going for at least a month - the first month is usually a struggle, and then maintain them after that.

Routines need to be flexible enough to accommodate needs, but strict enough to maintain impact.

If you are adding a child to your home, then you'll want to have some business routines established first. Create them with the needs of the child in mind, so you can still attend to the unpredictable needs of the kid! Having some routines ahead of time though can help you to maintain some order in a process of change.

Routines can be different for each person. For me, a routine rarely depends on the hour on the clock. I tend to go from one event to another through the day. After lunch, I work. After school in the morning, I work. After dinner, I work. I have other things that I do at other times, but those are my work routines. They are event driven, not scheduled by the clock. Other people do better with time limits. Whatever works for you is good.

Make sure your office space works for you. Some peole like no distractions. I like to work where I can see the family. Figure out what works for you and try to work toward that goal.

Simplify the chores in the house. Organization that creates extra work is NOT the point! You want to organize to eliminate tasks. We use a separate laundry basket for each kid. No sorting. The laundry baskets are in their rooms. They undress at night and the clothes go right in. Saves them time, leaves them with no excuses. My husband and I have three laundry baskets in our bathroom (in other houses we have had them in the closet, or in the corner of the bedroom, or even on shelves in the bedroom). One is for darks, the other is for lights, and the third is for stuff that needs washed in between our wash days, such as wet washcloths, clothes with spills, etc. No sorting, and they are right where we change. We do laundry once a week for each person in the family. They have different days assigned for it. This works for us because it eliminates a great deal of work. If your organization does not eliminate some work, then figure out a different way to do it that does!

Organization is established through habits. Habits take a month or more to establish, so keep at it. Habits develop best if we work on one at a time. And habits are easiest to keep if we don't try to establish them in the face of other major changes. So get some routines and habits in place before the major changes take place when you can, it will really help you make the transitions more easily.

Be warned though, major changes in your life can disrupt your routines, and once you get them, you do NOT want to lose them! They take TOO long to build back because you can only build them back one at a time. KEEP your routines, and make whatever effort is necessary to do so during changes. You'll not understand how important this is unless you lose them, and then you'll fight for years to get them back!

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