533 - Is There an Organization Finish Line?

<p><strong>This episode answers a question I get a lot.</strong> <strong>How do you know when you are organized? What does it mean to be fully organized? Does anyone ever feel finished? Is there an organization finish line?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s get into it! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, you’re going to want to follow along with the Organize 365® Research - get a FREE copy of our newly released research magazine</span> <a href= "https://www.organize365.com/the-state-of-home-organization-in-21st-century-america-research-download-request1"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our most recent research study aimed to answer these questions about what it means to be organized and where the finish line might be. In order to do this, we broke organization up into the four categories we defined - personal, storage, family & communal spaces and paper. This allowed us to zero in on different areas and give people an opportunity to rank if they felt organized in any of these areas of their lives. </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">15% of respondents felt they were personally organized</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">14% of respondents felt that their storage rooms were organized</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">18% of respondents felt that their paper was organized</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">13% of respondents felt that their family & communal spaces were organized</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a huge problem because our research has already revealed that 87% of Americans believe organization is a learnable skill. So the majority of people believe this to be learnable, but yet they have not achieved it. My concern