“A place for everything…”
Are you having trouble finding basic things in your home or office? Are you wasting countless minutes looking, looking, looking?
There are a few things that come up over and over with my new clients. One of those basic things is that there is no “home” for things.
“A place for everything and everything in its place”
We have all heard this quote before, but do you practice it in your life?
Here’s an example. I was recently in a house where basic things did not have a home. Supplies for hobbies were in multiple rooms. Sports equipment was in the car, hall closet, and several places in the garage. Mail piles were all over the house.
The first thing this family had to do was to collect things together: all the scrapbooking supplies, sports equipment, mail, photos, etc. The technical term for this is Sort. (OK, you can chuckle at the phrase “technical term”).
The second key was to cull down the amount of stuff in each category.
Third, and very important, is to Assign a Home to each category of things. So the Scrapbooking supplies all went into the home office, the sports equipment in the garage and the mail has a station at the kitchen desk.
Have you assigned a home to things in your house? Take time this week to start working on this. Choose something that you are constantly searching for and losing time. Start by pulling everything together and assigning a specific home to it. If you are constantly losing the keys, have one specific place where you drop the keys. Always leave them there, and always find them there.
What’s the thing that you need to assign to a home?
