Organization is "the act of putting things into a logical order or the act of taking an efficient and orderly approach to tasks". Each of us have varying levels of cognitive and physical abilities. We need to understand our limitations as much as our potential. When we try to come up with routines and plans to become better organized we need to factor in the many variables that will impact how successful these ideas and systems will be. There also needs to be some flexibility and wiggle room to make adjustments as illness and events (planned and unplanned) come into play. Some of the variables to consider would be where we live (own or rent), the space we have to work with (big or small), the people and/or animals we share our home with (growing or grown), the time we have to maintain what we have, the health we may or may not depend on to follow through, the resources we have at our disposal to make or buy items to help in our organization efforts, and so forth....