5 Tips: Organize Your Life the Green Way

1. Organize Your Bedroom. Donate extraneous stuff--like clothes or unused presents--to charities or thrift stores. When you have less stuff, you have less things to clean, maintain or worry about. 2. Organize Your Daily Schedule. Many digital organization accessories now exist at our fingertips. Desktop Post-Its. Google Calendar. Your iPhone. Reduce paper consumption as much as possible in your organization tools. 3. Organize Your Home and Work. Check out Freecycle, Craigslist or your local thrift shop for organization-related furniture that you may need for your home and work, like filing cabinets, file holders or bookcases. 4. Organize Your Trash. Resist the urge to dump everything into one big trashcan. Recycle the things that can to be recycled. Compost the things that can be composted. 5. Organize Your Life. Here's a simple, meditative question you can ask yourself anytime you are having going through a difficult period in your life. Anytime you are stuck on a life problem or obstacle, ask yourself: how would nature handle this?