Getting organized in your life can make many things go better for you. Staying organized can help you feel better about the place where you live and can even help you do better at work and to move up in the world. Getting organized isn't always something that is easy to do, but many people who struggle with it agree that the time and effort spent getting organized are easily worth all the trouble.
You know your life could use some organization. This could mean in your home, office, finances, agenda, or anything. But the whole idea of trying to organize it is overwhelming and exhausting.
You can get organized with a little motivation. But it all starts with you admitting that you need to get organized and that you want to do it. Once you know that, there are many things that can push you the rest of the way.
How to get motivated to keep a clean and orderly household:
Map out a plan
Find a place in your house that you pass by a lot. Like the fridge, right by the doorway of your kitchen or family room, or on your bulletin board. Make a list or a chart for yourself of daily, weekly, and/or monthly chores. Put it up somewhere that you will see often, reminding you to do them! It may be just the nagging reminder you need to motivate yourself to do it!
"How to get motivated to keep a clean and orderly household" »
Keeping a clean house is important to your sanity, health, etc. but it can be hard to get motivated to clean house. The following are tips for getting motivated to clean house:
1. Have your house be temporary dirty. This means that your house should never be so messy that it takes you forever to clean it. Keep the one hour rule in mind. If your house takes more than an hour to get in decent cleaning condition, then it is not temporarily dirty. Temporarily dirty means one meal's dishes in the sink, regular wear and tear and mess, not built up mess. If your house is only temporarily dirty then you will be more motivated to clean it. It will not be such an insurmountable task.
If you have done the work, and committed the time to getting organized, you will certainly not want that to go to waste, so stay organized. The following are some tips for staying organized, whether it is your home, your life, or your job:
As you get things out, be sure to put them away. The problem with staying organized is that if you let things go too long it is easier to just throw things together in a box or basket, and just let things go, and forget about organization. So, once you determine where things should go, you should keep things in these places.
When you start to feel like your life is being overrun with chaos, it is time to get organized. But where do you start? Where do you even begin to get yourself organized? You have so much stuff, and where do you put it all? The following are some great tips for getting organized:
Tip one: Reduce and simplify. If you keep things you do not need, then you will never be able to get organized because you will never have enough room for all of the things you need. So, the first tip for getting organized is to get rid of all of the crap you do not need. Start your organization off with getting rid of anything you haven't used in the last year. Literally, even if it is measuring cups. Just toss them. You will have more peace having them gone and having to buy them again then storing them forever. Plus, you will probably not be able to find things once you do need them, and this means that you will end up buying it anyway.
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