Who Are You Listening To?
The best person to listen to about organizing your home may not be who you think.
This is Real Life
I was a career focused woman. I had hit the career goals I’d set for myself seemingly with ease by age 30.
Why would it be that managing my home and hitting home cleaning and organizing goals after having kids was seemingly impossible?
It didn’t make sense to me then and honestly, I really beat myself up about it for so many years.
But I figured out the issue!
It wasn’t the work I was doing or the effort I was putting in.
In fact, it wasn’t me at all!
It was the expectations placed on me through our culture. Through what I saw splattered on every single platform I used.
Perfection.
That’s what I saw then and that’s what you see now!
We see experts saying “If I can do it, so can you. All you have to do is x, y and z and your home will be organized forever!”
Yeah, right!
Well, none of that worked for me. Instead I had to figure out what did actually work for me.
Perhaps that’s where you’re at too. You’ve tried all the things and it just hasn’t worked.
That’s where I come in. I help you figure it out, what works for you, your family and your current season of life.
Midweek Organizing Quick Tips
Actionable tips that you can do quickly on a busy day that help your home be more organized and functional.
Quick Tip 1 - Start Small
Always, always, always start with a small home organizing project.
We’re inclined to dive deep into getting organized. We tend to pick our entire home or our entire office.
Instead, you want to start small.
This allows you to see and feel progress versus grinding on forever without getting done or seeing actual progress.
I recommend starting really small, like a drawer or a shelf. Go through the process from start to finish.
The 3 foundational elements to home organizing are:
SORT - sort through the things in the small space that you selected. Decide what you’re going to do with each individual item. The end result is a clear and clean space.
ORGANIZE - place the things that you’re going to keep back into the space in the manner in which you want them to be. Keep in mind how you and others function in the space.
SUSTAIN - document the daily, weekly, monthly things that need to happen in order to keep the space organized. This is the step that’s typically missed, but makes all the difference in keeping the space organized.
When you start small and complete these steps while keeping you and your family in mind through the process, you’ll see progress. That progress builds momentum. That momentum is what carries you through the process of organizing your entire home.
What Makes Organized People Organized
Implementing the foundational elements of home organizing. Implemented in a way that makes sense to them. In a way that works for them, their family and their current season of life.
Organized people are organized because they’ve figured out what works for them.
Let’s work together to figure out what works for you.