I find that waiting around can be a frustrating experience, especially because I can be quite an impatient person. I have enough to do without wasting time waiting at the checkout, or sitting around while the train runs late! However, recently I’ve tried to make the most of the experience. It might be annoying waiting around but it can also be a great opportunity to do something. Because there are none of the distractions you would get at home or in the office, it’s usually a great opportunity to do those niggly little tasks you’d otherwise ignore.

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We all have one of those days from time to time. But what do we mean when we say that? Typically one or more bad things happen that put you in an unhappy mood. Maybe you feel everybody is on your back or your computer is constantly breaking down when you need to finish a report. Perhaps all your current work isn’t satisfactory, the deadline is getting closer and you just can’t seem to get focused. Without really thinking about it we put it all down to fate or being unlucky and then we typically end up feeling sorry for ourselves. That can then spiral and affect the rest of our day. However, it need not be this way. Here is a handy guide to getting your day back on track.

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This month it emerged that in the UK, a staggering eight billion pounds worth of food goes to waste, which equates to 6.7 million tonnes or a third of our total purchases. Those are scary stats that are echoed in many other countries around the world. This effects us two ways. Firstly, with food prices rising dramatically at the moment, it’s a very good idea to start looking at whether we can be more efficient with what we eat, thus wasting less and saving money. Secondly, all that wasted food typically ends up on landfills thus producing the greenhouse gas methane, on top of all the damage the excess packaging and transporting causes. It’s with all this in mind that I’ve compiled an introductory list of habits you can develop in your life that will help you to stop wasting food so as to save money and be environmentally friendly.

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Today is Blog Action day which I previously discussed in my weekly recap. The topic for this year is the environment and my little contribution to this huge issue will be discussing those first small steps you can take to develop your environmentally friendly habit. After all, a lot of people are so used to being wasteful, leaving appliances and lights on, etc that it’s become a bad habit they really need to break. In a previous post I discussed the key concepts that you can use to take those first tentative steps to building a new habit. By combining that article with the following points you will have all the groundwork you need.

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Today I am starting a new series of posts on Organize IT - called Audit Your Life - discussing how you can audit various aspects of your life so as to determine where you stand, what is missing, what is needed and how you can structure and optimize each area. In this first post I will look at your clothes collection and describe the process of auditing your wardrobe so that it functions efficiently and fully serves its purpose in your life.

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