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Maybe you’ve tried to get your home organized before but
given up in frustration because you couldn’t seem to make
yourself make any real progress. Or maybe you had the best
intentions of organizing your home, even had it all planned
out, but couldn’t quite seem to make yourself do what you
know you needed to do. This happens a lot and not just in
home organization but in every area of life. We all know
what we need to do, maybe even make some progress, but
something else comes up that distracts us from our goal. If
you really want to get your
home organized and are
committed to that goal, I’m here to help you take charge.
And that involves getting your habits organized.
We all have habits that keep us from achieving our goals. If
you really want to get your home organized, the first thing
you’re going to have to do is take control of your
organizing habits. You have habits right now that determine
how your home is organized or not organized. Let me give you
an example to help explain what I mean. What do you do with
all of the paperwork (mail, kids’ papers, newspapers,
magazines, etc) that comes into your home? Does it get
shoved in a certain corner of the living room? Does it end
up on the kitchen table, stacked as high as it can possibly
go without falling over? You already have a habit that
determines what you do with papers that come into your home.
The challenging part is taking charge of that habit. If you
really want to get those papers that come into your home
organized, you’re going to need to change your “paper
habit.”
So instead of shoving those papers in a corner of the living
room, decide that you are going to create a filing system
for them instead. Some suggestions: bills, action needed,
coupons, possibly trash, file for each child, file for
anyone else living in your household. Get a simple desktop
file sorter, label each slot and all you have to do is put
the appropriate mail/paper in the appropriate slot when you
get in the door.
It takes 21 days to establish a new habit so commit to
yourself right now that you are going to do this for 21
days. Tackle only one home organization habit at a time.
Trying to change your entire home organization routine can
overwhelm you and chances are good that it is not going to
stick. You have to really want to get your home organized
for this to work and you have to be committed to changing
your habits.
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