什麼是"organizational skills"?

Organizational skills can and do help you to cope with the world around you. They provide structure, they create a semblance of order and they reduce daily stress levels. How? Well, there is SO MUCH in the world today, so much to do, so much to read, so much to know, so much to learn, so much to choose from, so many places to go, so many routes to get there-SO MUCH! Without organizational skills to help us cope with the sensory overload, with the "so much" we're exposed to constantly, we'd be overwhelmed and paralyzed by an endless stream of information to process and decisions to make. Don't believe me? Probably because you take this area of organizational skills for granted. Think about it. What if you didn't organize each day? You wouldn't wake up at a consistent time each morning. You may not get dressed. You might not make it to work. You'd never have groceries in the house. You wouldn't get the laundry done. You may not pay your bills. You probably wouldn't accomplish anything. You'd spend your days thinking about all the things you COULD do but you'd probably never get around to doing them. This area of organization involves making a decision about what to do and figuring out when to do it.

The organizational skills you apply toward planning each day insure that you are at least somewhat productive and that you accomplish what you must. They direct the demands on your attention and give you some sense of control.

Organizational Skills are also at work when you have large or time-consuming projects you must accomplish. Thinking about them in their entirety can be overwhelming and discouraging. But by breaking these projects down into smaller more manageable pieces (i.e. organizing them) they don't seem to be as difficult to achieve. For example, I am in the process of building a web site. The thought of building a whole site is very intimidating and, I must admit, it stopped me dead in my tracks for a while. But I finally took the task apart piece by piece and organized it. As a result I have registered a domain name, found a web host, built the shell of the site, and opened a merchant account. As a whole, the project was overwhelming. Individually, the tasks involved were small and accomplishable. Suddenly, I wasn't tackling the whole all at once. I was tackling pieces. It felt better. And so it was.

Finally, yes, organizational skills are about having "a place for everything and everything is in its place". When this has been mastered you don't waste countless hours trying to find your most recent bank statement or last year's tax return. You know exactly where they are because they are in their proper place. Conversely, when a bank statement arrives in the mail or when the tax return has been completed you know where to put them away immediately. This action prevents them from lying around, only to be moved over and over again, whenever they get in the way. Remember, the less you touch something, the more time you save. It is true that perhaps the time saved may mean only seconds here and seconds there. But throughout the course of a day or a week those seconds add up to minutes and hours.

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