Project Org-Fü/GTD: TooShéy Edition - Aftermath
Yesterday, I walked over to the home of a good friend of mine in order to help him overcome the clutter and disorganisation that was his room, in order to help him prepare for a new school year (one which is much more important than the last). Before I arrived, his room was horribly messy and insanely disorganised.
This was all to change. When I got there, he had already done a fair bit of cleaning and tidying, but when I arrived is when we pulled out the big guns, folding clothes, rearranging cupboards and optimising the space he had for all his stuff.
We finished our “rage cleaning”, and moved on to phase two; going to Officeworks and buying him the stuff he’d need to work this year. On the list was new stationary, his very own in/out trays, his 2011 school books, an A4 ring binder, 3”x3” post-its, post-it “flags” and a whole stack of fresh index cards. We paid for our purchases and went back to his place to implement a new system.
When we got there, we quickly talked about how he should use the in/out trays (as per David Allen’s GTD methodology), how we were going to add the 3”x3” post-its and index cards to an existing corkboard to make for a truly functional notification system (where post-its are for events and index cards are for project and task lists), how he was to use his post-it flags in his bookwork (one flag to denote the beginning of a new topic in a certain subject), and we went over his new afternoon routine, from walking in the door to cleaning up after a hard afternoon’s work.
When we’d finally finished, his room looked a lot less like a bomb had hit it, and more like this:
(I apologise for the bad, last-minute photography)
As you can see, we now have a much cleaner, much more organised, and now fully prepared for a highly productive year at school for Sheyon.
