How to Get the Results and Information You Want (Being Resourceful!) | Clutter Video Tip

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http://www.ClutterDiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Sherlock Holmes knows a thing or two about resourcefulness. Figuring out how to put the clues together to overcome your organization obstacles can seem daunting. But, “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” In today’s video Lorie Marrero illustrates the strategies she uses in these situations. Following these tips will make your organizing projects less stressful and more productive. Soon it will all feel elementary. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement. http://www.clutterdiet.com http://goodwill.org http://www.clutterdiet.com/learnmore http://www.facebook.com/clutterdiet Hi I’m Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet Book and online program. Today we’re talking about getting the information and results you want. One of our members of our program asked “How do I shred piles of paper when I live in a rural area? How do I even begin to start shredding everything with a household-grade shredder?” She knows she needs a bigger type of service and doesn’t know how to figure that out. Let’s think through it. #1, is there another way to get what I want? She’s already thinking this way: “I can’t use my shredder for this; is there another way to do it? Like a shred truck?” This is kind of what this person needs. Let’s go to question #2, “Is the desired result really the best result?” She’s thinking she needs a shred truck to come to her house, but maybe there’s another way to do it. “Is that what I want? Is it really the best way to do it?” Maybe instead of the truck coming to her, she can flip it and take the stuff to the truck. Maybe she can take all of this stuff somewhere else, where there is a truck. Looking at it, flipping it around, trying to reverse it and think about it a different way is another way to be more resourceful. The 3rd question is, “Who has information that might help me?” There’s somebody in this town who has the same problem; someone who has to do this regularly. Probably a business like a doctor’s office. They have to shred things regularly. There may be other businesses like that who require large volumes of shredding. She can call up her local doctor’s office and ask them what they do. That is similar to the #4 question, “What is something very similar to what I need that might also work?” This truck coming to her house or her bringing it to the truck. Or, maybe there is a dump bin that one of these doctor’s offices has where she can bring several loads over a period of time to fit into the bin and pay them or something. The 5th question is, “Who is the expert in this area?” Well, this member of our program did a great job. She needed a problem solved, so she asked me because I’m the expert that she knows. When I am the expert and I don’t know, I go to these questions to try to figure it out. #6, “What is one more thing I can try?” If she calls this doctor’s office and hits a dead end with that, what else can she do? Call another doctor’s office or a different kind of company that has a lot of shredding? Call the shredding company directly in a large city nearby? What else can she do? Not giving up is part of the secret of resourcefulness. Question #7, what would someone I admire do in this situation? I grew up in an era of television where MacGyver was a really popular show and the character of MacGyver was the poster boy for resourcefulness. He could disarm a bomb with a rubber band and a bobby pin. I have often asked myself, “What would MacGyver do in this situation? What’s the MacGyver way?” I have a formula for resourcefulness that might make sense: Necessity + Creativity + Persistence. Necessity is the motivational engine for solving a problem. If you’re not getting something solved, you might figure out how to make it less of an option, how to create more urgency and necessity around the problem to make this formula work. Creativity is asking these seven questions to get started and look for alternatives and other ways of finding your answer. Then Persistence. You’ve got to keep going if you’re going to solve it. If you need help and you need experts to ask, that’s why we are here at http://www.clutterdiet.com/learnmore you can find out more about how we help people every single day. We’ll see you next time, and may you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.