Orderliness

Orderliness:  organizing and caring for possessions and responsibilities to achieve greater efficiency.

Maintaining organized areas and schedules + keeping track of responsibilities and deadlines = orderliness

Orderly people design methods and systems to make life easier, less complicated, and more organized. They seek patterns and templates that will increase the peacefulness and effectiveness of their areas and routines.

Orderliness requires:

• Optimistic Goals – Successful people organize their lives to create a comfortable and manageable environment for reaching goals.
• Conscientious Self-Discipline – Organized people are disciplined, and they complete tasks on time so they do not become bigger problems.
• Capturing, Calendaring, Containing – Organized people use lists to capture events, ideas, and requests from others.

Being orderly helps you stay in control of your life and allows you more time and energy for big life goals.

“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.  Like beams in a house or bones in a body, so is order to all things.”  – Robert Southey