It may seem like a silly question to ask, when you can’t find your phone, and the teapot has disappeared under the recycling, but asking yourself why you want to be organised before you start, is key to making sure you have an approach which will make the decluttering you do in your home, last.
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time….
I’ve just discovered the joy of doing long or boring jobs I don’t want to do, a little bit at a time. When I was younger, I used to be a perfectionist and this was reinforced by the fact that I had boundless energy. I [...]
It might seem like a Zen conundrum, but there is actually a difference between the way storage in a bedroom and storage in an attic works, which naturally tidy people seem to understand instinctively and which naturally messy people don’t. The problem arises because we use the same word for both types of storage, and [...]
In the last three blogs I posted, I looked at immediate, grass roots ways to stop lateness adding to your clutter problems, and how to create more time in the long term. This final blog on the subject contains the third, medium term strategy to solving the vicious circle of messiness and lateness. Using all [...]
