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Keeping Your House Free of Clutter
Are you reading books about organizing your home and time management? Have you recently been setting short-term and long-terms goals for organizing your whole house? Maybe you are working on improving your environment at home or at your office.
I routinely feel more relaxed and in control of my life when my house is nicely organized. I find it easier to function on a daily basis with my household responsibilities when I can easily find everything I am looking for at my house. I like to routinely keep everything clutter-free.
It takes time to declutter and organize a house. I try to plan my organizing projects by breaking them down into manageable tasks that I can realistically accomplish.
I don't think of the "all or none" idea when I am planning my projects. I try to set aside at least 30 minutes a day to complete one small organizing project in the house.
It gives me positive reinforcement to see the results of my efforts around the house. Household chores and daily maintenance gets a little easier each time I organize a new area in my house.
It gives me positive reinforcement to see the results of my efforts around the house. Household chores and daily maintenance gets a little easier each time I organize a new area in my house.
Benefits of Organizing Your House
Have you recently been wondering about the positive benefits from being organized?
Listed below are some advantages of being organized:
Hopefully, you may be able to relax more. You life may possibly begin to feel less stressful or chaotic when you become more organized and balanced in life.
Once you are organized, you may find that you have more time for yourself. You may feel more productive and efficient with your work. When you have an appropriate place for your items, you will be less likely to waste time trying to find things and you should find yourself having more time for yourself and the things you truly like to do.
You may also find that you have more time for your friends and family members. An organized person may be more likely to schedule in leisure time for friends and family. You may feel much better about your surroundings, once you begin organizing your house.
Being disorganized may result in embarrassment. You may feel anxious when friends visit your house and happen to see clutter out of place.
By getting organized, you may feel wonderful about your home environment. Hopefully, you will feel confident and secure to be able to invite friends to your house without feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
By continuing to stay organized, you may also have more available time to exercise and cook healthy meals for yourself and your family.
Also, you may even begin to see an improvement in your professional setting. An organized person gives a better professional impression than someone who has an office piled with lots of disorganized papers and boxes, or is always late for appointments.
Possibly, you may find yourself saving some money at times. If you're organized, you will know very well what you have, before you purchase more.
Another advantage of being organized is that you may actually accomplish more. When you're disorganized, there are always obstacles that hold you back from achieving your goals.
Organized individuals may find constructive ways to reduce tasks that are not required, and they may streamline tasks that routinely take excessive time. This leaves sufficient time to work on achieving all of those important goals on your list.
What is Clutter?
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So, now you are a little more familiar with my training. We will get onto our topic of decluttering the house.
I think it is extremely important for you to educate yourself about home organization and decluttering the house and decide on specific organizing systems that will work well for your individual lifestyle and family. Always remember that good organizational habits can be learned.
I have a question for everyone reading my blog today. What is clutter?
- Clutter is anything in your home or office that does not serve a purpose or function in your life anymore.
- Clutter may include items in your home that are broken or nonfunctional.
- Clutter may be material items in your home that you do not need or love.
- Clutter could also include unnecessary duplicate items in your home.
- You may be surprised to realize that having too many storage containers that aren't actually be used in your home may add to your existing clutter problem. That is the main reason it may be suggested that you declutter your home "first." Then, it should be easy to figure out exactly how many storage boxes to buy and specific sizes you may need.
- Clutter could also consist of accumulated items of trash to be thrown away or removed in an appropriate manner.
- Clutter may be caused be delayed decisions.
- You haven't taken the time to decide on appropriate areas to keep your specific items in your home.
- Procrastination: maybe you feel overwhelmed about organizing or decluttering your house.
- You may be experiencing that frustrating "all or nothing" feeling about home organization. For example: you may think to yourself, "I will never have enough time to get my organizing projects done. There is just too much to do. So, why should I even start?"
- Maybe, you have a very busy family schedule and you haven't been using a good weekly/monthly planner for routine chores/tasks in the home.
- Possibly, the family doesn't realize your home organization goals and you may get easily distracted with many interruptions throughout the day. It may be very helpful for you to communicate your short-term and long-term organizing goals with your family. You may decide to have family members participate in your plan. This may be especially important in helping to keep your home maintained after you have everything set up the way you like it.
- You may have felt the lack of energy or motivation to complete organizing projects in the past.
- Often times, a major lifestyle change may cause a change in the normal flow of organization in your home. Here are a few examples: a birth or a death in the family, new marriage or a divorce, job relocation, or health problems.
How can clutter affect your life in a negative way?
- Clutter can take up lots of extra space in a home. Think of how much more additional space you may have available after you get rid of any unnecessary clutter.
- You may be using a lot of your valuable time to take care of all the material things in your house.
- You could be spending extra money for duplicate items that you have been purchasing because you haven't been able to find the things that you were looking for in your house.
- Many people say they lack energy because they are tired of maintaining all the material things they have accumulated over the years.
- They don't have enough time to take good care of themselves or to enjoy their favorite hobbies and outlets.
- You will be able to focus on things that you enjoy, such as: exercise, hobbies, good nutrition, etc.
- You may find that you have more time to spend with family and friends.
- Hopefully, you won't have the need to purchase unnecessary items because you will have easy access to your items and be able to find everything when you need it. You will learn how to find "the right place for everything in your home."
- You may really enjoy the big bonus of having more space in your home once you get rid of your clutter.
- An organized house, free of clutter, may help you save time when you need to do your routine daily/weekly household chores.
- I find that I focus and concentrate better and feel more productive and less stress with work when my house and office are organized.
- You may increase your confidence to invite your friends over to your home again.
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