Marilyn Bohn | Creative Organizer

Happy May Day
I used to pick flowers and take to old ladies on May Day, then knock and run. I always imagined how happy they were to open their door and find flowers. How about you? Was this a tradition where you grew up?

The April Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is fabulous. This is where I was yesterday. The riots of gorgeous tulips are a feast for the eyes. The tulips were about two weeks later in blooming this year because it has been so cold. They were absolutely beautiful. Rows and rows of perfectively lined tulips in colors of red, yellow, pink, and fuchsia were a feast for our eyes.

It is obvious these tulips were grown with tools and a system to make them beautiful to the spectators and also enable the growers to harvest the bulbs to sell so others can enjoy the beauty of these tulips.

Understanding our own organizing style and selecting tools to help us get things done efficiently to work for us is key to helping us become organized.

Different organizing styles:

•Right-Brain Style—They tend to be more verbal, emotional, visual, flexible, and intuitive. Tend to get bored with routine, like to be spontaneous and easily lose track of time.
•Harmonizing Style—Tend to be more sentimental, attached to possessions.
•Innovating Style—Tends to be creative.
•Left –Brain Style—Tend to be more logical, disciplined and detail orientated.
•Prioritizing Style—Tends to be naturally organized and uncluttered.
Just like the different varieties and colors of tulips we are all different in the way we organize and one way isn’t better than the other. We probably all have a little bit of each style in the way we organize. By learning about which organizing style we tend to have helps us set up our own systems and enhances our own personal organizing style.

Have you ever been to the Skagit Valley Festival? What did you like most? (I love the art work of the artists that photograph and paint the tulip fields).

What is your organizing style? What systems have you developed that work for you?