Family Organization: Analyze

Disorganization undermines family unity. Disorganization leads to misunderstandings about how our surroundings should be kept (organizing space) and how we should spend our time (organizing time.) This leads to bickering, hard feelings, frustration, and time wasted. Finding simple ways to help all family members work toward a mutual understanding of organization is helpful.

There are three main steps to any organizing project. Here is a handy dandy acronym for the three steps that I picked up from Organizing from the Inside Out, A.S.A., which stands for:

1. Analyze
2. Strategize
3. Attack

To Analyze means to stop before you act. Figure out what your family needs. Hold a family meeting. Brainstorm. Take time, a few days at least, to collect all things that the family wants to do. The final product of this step is to have a comprehensive To-Do list.

That's it for now. Next, we'll strategize.