One of the most effective ways of improving your physical environments is to declutter. You know how you feel after you clean off the top of your desk, or clean out a closet? It’s an energy rush, aside from that feeling of accomplishment. It can actually make you feel more creative and motivated.
Organizer Elvie Look offers 10 Steps to Getting Organized. Here’s a preview: “3. The floor: is not storage space. Do you have clothes lying around? Go through now picking them up and putting them away in their respective rooms, closets or into the laundry hamper. While you’re at it, throw a load of laundry in. If you have clothes that need folding, do that and get them put away.”
Now go and post that sign in the kids’ rooms, the bathroom, and on your husband’s review mirror. “The floor is not storage space.”
10 Baby Steps To Getting And Staying Organized from Elvie’s Essentials