Organize IT

I’m going to be a little cheeky and promote my new post on Part-Time Wage Slave (for those wondering what PTWS is, check out my previous update). In it I take a detailed look at work/life balance, rethinking quite what it means, what it stands for and whether it has any validity in the 21st century. We all want work/life balance but why? Though statically the workplace is improving, employees feel more and more alienated by it. Please do check it out and leave your thoughts. Hopefully, it will also give you a taster of the sort of direction (both in content and quality) that I want to go in at PTWS.

As you may have guessed by my extended absence over the lady couple of months, I have been taking a break from Organize IT. It turned out to be a refreshing change not having to deal with doing a regular post or contend with the daily maintenance cycle that a three year old blog has….

This is a guest post by Emma Newman of Post Apocalyptic Publishing.

I once heard that former British Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher said “Happiness is a ticked off list”. I have no idea if that’s true, but regardless of how one might have felt about her politics, I can certainly relate to that statement. I always write a to-do list for every project, and having recently completed a major one, I realised something about the process that causes it all to break down.

I’ve written a lot about being organized and de-cluttering your life, in fact I did an entire book about it (you can download it for free here). It was one of the first big ‘lifehacks’ that I really mastered and it made such a difference to me. In fact I converted several other people, including my own parents, to the idea of decluttering (it backfired slightly because they started focusing on the stuff I’d left at their home when I’d got my own place).

I’ve been a bit busy these past few weeks getting the blog updated for 2010, so I thought I’d do one big post to share with you all what’s been happening. Firstly, you may have noticed it now has a new design. Gone is the sunflower theme which had absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the blog, and in its place is something a little more fitting (well I think so anyway). I wanted to avoid spending countless hours doing my own re-design so I bought a custom theme, and then ended up spending countless hours tweaking that instead (don’t ask). Anyways, I like it and I hope you do too. Share your feedback!