Organizational Challenge: Week Five
Table of contents for New Year, New Comp-U-ter
- Organizational Challenge: Week Nine
- Organizational Challenge: Week Eight
- Organization Challenge: Week Seven
- Organizational Challenge: Week Six
- Organizational Challenge: Week Five
- Organizational Challenge: Week Four
- Organizational Challenge: Week Three
- Organizational Challenge: Week Two
- New Year, New Comp-U-Ter Organization Challenges
- Organizational Challenge: Week One
- Organizational Challenge Week Ten
I have a confession to make. This past week, I was a bad scrapper/organizer. At first, I was going to write about how much I had gotten done, because how can I help all of you get organized, if I can’t help myself? But you know what? Not only would that be dishonest, which I don’t like, it doesn’t help anyone with the reality that life sometimes gets in the way of our own best intentions. It does, and we have to be ok with that. In parenting, we would call this a “teachable moment.” 
Let’s take a look at my tasks I had wanted to work on from last week:
Tasks for Week 4:
1. Back up and Optimize
2. If you use Photo Manager to view fonts, set up a system to keep you better organized.
3. If you find fonts that you know you will never use, have duplicate fonts or corrupted fonts, delete them and don’t look back!
4. If you have any credit information on these fonts, go ahead and put that information in the Caption or Notes section.
5. Check to see how many back- up files you have and delete as many as you feel comfortable.
I did back up and optimize. And I did work on tagging some things that I had running loose in my _To Be Tagged Folder. So all is not lost. But other than that- a big ol’ nothing.
Since I didn’t get to do any of the other tasks, I have them on my list for this week. If you did these, then you can continue “fine tuning” the rest of your stash. Perhaps you still have some categories that need to be cleaned up- go ahead and work on that. Or if you are still tagging your stash, shoot for 20-30 minutes a day, instead of the 15 minutes we had been doing.
Scrapping is supposed to be a fun, relaxing hobby. It is not supposed to be one more thing for us to beat ourselves up over, right? Right! So go to it, use this week to catch yourselves up- and definitely use some time to scrap!
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Feb 4, 2008 - 06:02:33Chris — sorry you didn’t accomplish what you wanted to this week, but I am just getting started myself and can use the time to try to “catch up!” Thanks for providing these challenges; they have inspired me to try to get a better handle on my stash. I started out with a very complicated and detailed list of categories, then scaled back to less complex organization style, and now after trying to scrap with that, have realized I need to go back in and add more detail to some of my categories. Fine tuning, I guess … I spent some time yesterday adding the author and kit name details to some of my folders and like that technique a lot so will incorporate that, too. Thanks again.
Thanks Janie- I am so happy to the hear that the challenges are helpful.