Whoever thought you'd be able to get organized in just 10 minutes?! Here are a few simple ideas.

1. 10 MINUTE CHORE BOX: Rather than spending hours organizing, and doing it all yourself, create a 10 minute Chore Box for yourself--and one for each family member, if applicable.

Each person's box would contain specific chores or tasks that need to be completed. The chores are written on slips of paper, and take a maximum of 10 minutes each to accomplish.

You can gear tasks towards person's abilities (e.g. while older kids can help out with vacuuming, a 3 year old may instead be responsible for putting away his/her toys.)

Each day, as a chore is completed, that slip of paper is placed in a holding envelope until Chore Box is empty. Then, when empty, boxes are refilled, and system starts over again. This also works well at office!

2. 10 MINUTE PICK-UP: Control chaos. Schedule a consistent, '10 minute Pick-up' each night. Set a timer to sound an alarm in 10 minutes.

While clock is ticking, all family members are responsible for clearing out and putting away their belongings from main family area.

When timer sounds, you're all done. Give yourselves a warm round of applause for all you've accomplished.

Emotional intelligence is what used to be called "maturity," or "common sense," or "knowing how to get along." It's how you handle yourself and others, and how you handle emotions. It means knowing how to manage conflict constructively, being flexible about people and problems, remaining resilient in face of adversity, having good interpersonal skills, and being ... well, just being kind of people other people want to work with and relate to. It can be as important to your successw as IQ.