Did you ever walk into your house and feel overwhelmed by the clutter and disorganization? Does your mind start to feel like it is also cluttered and disorganized? Our environment often effects how we think and feel. But here are a few general tips to help you begin to organize your life:
1) Have a place to hang your keys and your coat when you walk in the door
2) When you use an item, put it back where you got it
3) If you see things piled up, at least straighten them into a neat stack until you can sort through them and discard unwanted items.
4) Don’t accumulate things you know you will eventually throw away
5) Don’t try to deal with the entire house or your entire life at one time. Take some small bites, address one room or one closet in a room.
Address an area where there is the most clutter but that you need to look at or work through on a regular basis. This may not be a closet, because things in it are out of sight. On the other hand if you spend 30 minutes each day looking for an article of clothing in your closet it is time to get organized.
Perhaps you will want to pick a room like the living room where everything seems to be cluttered and in disarray, from magazines and newspapers to toys and computers. It is time to throw away old magazines and sort through the toys. Perhaps it would be a good time to give some of those toys away to the local church.
Or perhaps you have only 1 hour to spend on the de-cluttering or organization process. You ask, where do I begin and what do I really do? Ask yourself what bothers you the most about the clutter? Is it the volume of material or just the lack of organization or both? Is it your computer files that need the most attention because of a lack of organization? Is it your finances? What is stealing most of your time because of a lack of organization? If you can answer this one question you will know where to begin.
These are just some general tips, actually an overview on getting organized. More detailed tips for specific ways to get organized coming soon.
Submitted by: ABrown www.organizeandorder.com
