Power De-Cluttering

June 12, 2010 at 4:56 pm · Filed under Mail, closet, decluttering, kids and toys

POWER DE-CLUTTERING

Piles of stuff here, there and everywhere.  It seems exhausting and over-whelming just looking at it all.  How are you ever going to get started let alone get it done?

I love to suggest the “break it down to its parts” theory.  You know this from project management skills at work.  Well bring it home.  After all, cleaning, organizing, storing, purging…it is a project.

POWER DE-CLUTTERING is the idea of taking small parts and attacking them one little part at a time.

Let’s say your dining room table or desk is buried under piles of paper, up-opened mail, kids schoolwork, your work, phone messages, old newspapers…well you get the picture.  It sounds overwhelming.  Don’t look at the total pile.  Instead commit 15 minutes and start grabbing papers that are ready to be recycled.  With a bin or bag at your side, just grab and toss.

Here is why this is easier.  You committed to a short period of time (15 minutes) and you are only making one decision (keep or recycle).  In just 15 minutes you will have made the first dent in that big pile and it wasn’t so over the top….

Tomorrow, try another 15 minute stint.

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