[Don’t be a hot mess in 2018! Get your shit together with this week’s special feature, the “Get Your Shit Together Issue!” We think this story will help….—eds.]
I’m no Martha Stewart. I’m not an all-American homemaker, I don’t make my bed every day, and, most unfortunately, I haven’t been blessed (yet!) with a cooking show costarring Snoop Dogg. But in 2018, I decided it was time to get my life organized à la Martha Stewart—because I was tired of constantly losing all of my shit, and I was determined to clean up all aspects of my life.
At the start of this year, I had about four free days before my regular work schedule kicked back in. I spent the first day responding to dozens of unanswered emails and messages, doing laundry, and unpacking from a trip home. To help stay on track with my dreaded inbox, I wrote out a quick list on lined paper using tiny squares for bullet points, naming every person I needed to respond to. Instead of tackling the more time-consuming ones, I went with the easiest first and crossed each box out as I finished. And it worked! But where to go from there? I headed to Powell’s the next day for more advice.
