Organizing For Your Brain Type I

Do you ever feel a bit overwhelmed by clutter? You want to get organized...you make all sorts of special efforts, but still that sense of having it "all together" eludes you. There are always those stray papers, a number you lost, the bill you had to pay but forgot about in that never ending stack!

You might enjoy Lanna Nakone’s book "Organizing For Your Brain Type". She introduces a break-through approach to personal organization.

Basically there are four different brain types:

1. Maintaining
2. Harmonizing
3. Innovating
4. Prioritizing

Representing which hemispheres they work out of:

1. The three left posterior lobes: Helps us develope and follow routines
2. The three right posterior lobes: Helps us develope harmony and connectedness
3. The right frontal lobe : Helps us to envision the future and make changes
4. The left frontal lobe: Helps us set up and acheive goals

Because everbody has a different brain, we're all going to have a different approach to organizing. What works for you may not work for someone else. To them it may actually seem disorganized and even messy. In turn, what works for them, may not work for you.

She claims that everyone has the capability of being organized... in their own way. So if clutter is something you struggle with, perhaps you've adapted someone elses style of organization that doesn't fit your brain type. She says if our brain has to work to hard to keep up with a system that it doesn't process well, it will tire quickly, burn out...and you know what the end story is. Back to the old way of doing things. It may be messy but at least our brain is comfortable.

All that organizing for nothing!

To avoid all the stress of rearranging your life in a way that you won't be able to keep up with or stick to, I suggest you identify your brain type and find out exactly how you work. What your strengths are. Your weaknesses. That way you'll be able to come up with strategies for organization that work for you personally! The book is filled with tips at how to overcome particular weaknesses and play up personal strengths associated with your brain type.

Lanna Nakone says that once you find the method that fits your brain type, you will have no problem staying organized for years, maybe your whole life.

What's Lanna's definition of being organized?

"Being able to find what you need in five minutes or less."

So what is your type? And how do you identify it?

More on this in my next post...