Everyone’s ready, ribbons are tied into the hair of your youngest and even the boys have their dress shirts on. Now it’s time for the family picture.
What’s that? Oh, the blinking light indicating your battery is dead or your memory card is full. Yes, it always happens at the
worst time.
Those pictures clogging up the memory card? They’re from last year’s Christmas gathering.
While digital cameras and video recorders have become smaller, sleeker and easier to use, they don’t solve the age-old problem of forcing us to actually organize our photos. Whether your piles are real prints or electronic, it can be overwhelming when there are so many.
Three hints for managing the memories:
1. Ditch the perfection. The album doesn’t need to be perfect and doesn’t need to cover every single lifetime event. Start with a few frames or a small album for just one event, rather than a whole year.
2. Pick one project. Don’t take on too much. Whether it is a particular time period, event or even a collage for a specific person or room, just do that one thing to help you get rolling.
3. Give yourself a deadline. Hold yourself accountable by making a promise to someone else and have that person check in with you.
4. Schedule time to get it done. It might not seem important to you now, but when you’re looking at the photos hanging on the wall or enjoying flipping through the album, you’ll be glad that you scheduled time on your calendar to finish the project.
The writers are co-founders of Buttoned Up, a company dedicated to helping stressed women get organized. Send ideas and questions to yourlife@[URL]getbuttonedup.com;http://getbuttonedup.com[URL]. [/URL]
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