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Getting organized saves time. Disorganization is a momentum killer. You go in circles because you can’t find things, appointments are missed, bills don’t get paid on time and life feels out of control. Good organizational systems instill confidence in yourself and your abilities.

Organizing is challenging because it requires behavior changes. Action is the key. Anything is better than nothing. Planning and action is better than doing just anything because preparation before action produces motivation.

Taking control of your life begins with sorting through everything that uses your time and occupies your space. Determine what’s important and let the useless go.

Start small. Organize one small space at a time. Clear the space. Pick up each item, ask what it is. Put it with similar items. Remove the unnecessary. Group similar items and put back into the space in a way that makes it easy to maintain the space.

Become a minimalist and your organizing problems will be much easier to solve. The problem with organizing is that you have too much stuff. The bad news is you may never get really organized until you learn to focus. Let go, get rid of items that you don’t use.

You won’t believe how good it feels to release yourself from the stagnation of too much stuff until you actually do it. If you’re overwhelmed and going in circles, can’t get anything done, you probably have too many choices. And do you even know what they are?

Define yourself with less. Take away until you find your essence. Use books as an example. Pull them off the shelves, sort them into similar piles, put aside those to drop at goodwill or recycle. If you’ll never read them, why own them? Put the books back onto the shelves grouped by category and notice the difference. Can’t wait to read them can you?

Let’s use tools as an example. Tools and hardware mixed together on shelves are frustrating to work with. Pull the bins and containers off the shelves, sort the tools and hardware into piles. Hand tools, power tools, paint and supplies, fasteners and adhesives, cleaning supplies, etc. Sort, containerize, put the items back on the shelf and notice how much easier the job is next time you need to fix or do something with tools.

The less there is to organize, the easier it is to do.