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One Step at a Time Leads to an Organized Life
By Lara | June 30, 2009
Getting organized for those who are organizationally challenged is like trying to eat a soft serve ice cream cone in a furnace…messy and impossible! ROFLMBO! No worries though, there is a solution…
One Step at a Time Cleaning
Do not let the messies overwhelm you. Set small organizing goals. Make a list of everything you would like to accomplish as far as cleaning. Then set out to accomplish them. Do ONE task each day. Just one.
Before you know it, your list will become4 smaller and smaller until you are an organizing guru…(well at least fairly neat, lol)… Then it’s all maintenance baby!
Example of One Step at a Time Organizing
Let’s look at one example from “to do” list.
Clean Kitchen
Break it down in to one cleaning task at a time like this:
- Day One: counters
- Day Two: fridge
- Day Three: stove
- Day Four: pantry
- Day Five: appliances
- Day Six: floors
Success Tip: Remember, once you complete one task, you must maintain it if you want to keep the messies at bay. So, if you clean the counters on day one, make sure you wipe them down on days 2-6. Then when the whole kitchen is done, at the end of each day, your load will be much lighter. You will only be dealing with normal everyday messes…not major overhaul type cleaning.
As you may have already guessed, I am by no means an expert in the ways of organizing. I am an average Mother who is organizationally challenged trying to make life cleaner and less stressful. I am simply sharing what I am learning as I go and hope that there are people out there like me who need simple solutions for the average messy life!
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Topics: Cleaning Tips, Get Organized!, STAY Organized!, Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment »
June 30th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Good tips. Thx.