Starting a Daily Organization Strategy

If your home or office has become disorganized, you might be too overwhelmed by the situation and not even know where to begin. Often the main obstacle to getting organized is just mustering up the enthusiasm for getting started. If things have really fallen into disarray, it can be difficult to know how to go about cleaning up the mess, and it might seem hopeless. If this is the case, planning a daily organization strategy can often be the best place to start.

Planning Your Initial Strategy

In order to succeed at anything, you have to create a realistic plan. If your plan doesn't reflect your real time and physical restrictions, there is no way that you will be able to succeed. Therefore, the first step is deciding upon your initial strategy. Sit down and reflect on what part of your disorganized life is causing you the most unhappiness. Once you know what that is, jot down some factors about the disorganization that are causing the most problems so that you can set some primary goals. For example, if a cluttered spare bedroom is preventing you from inviting family members to your home, the main goal will be to make the room usable for guests. On the other hand, if the cluttered spare bedroom is preventing you from being able to store your off-season clothes in the closet, your primary goal might be to organize the closet. Starting with what is most important to you can be just the push you need to stick with your plan and succeed.

Set Some Reasonable Stepsr
Once you have identified your primary goals, jot done a few ideas on how you might set about achieving your goals. These ideas will become your primary action plans. Most time management experts advise cutting large jobs up into smaller manageable tasks, so make your action plans very specific. It is better to have a larger number of smaller tasks as opposed to a small number of extremely large tasks. When writing down these action plan tasks, take the amount of free time you have into account. For example, if you have thirty minutes every morning before leaving for work, try to create action plan tasks that you could reasonably complete in thirty minutes. It's also a good idea to have a few larger tasks on the list for those days when you have more time to spare, or at least several small tasks that could work well when completed together.

Set a Daily Scheduler
After compiling a list of action plan tasks that you can use to achieve your goal, set a schedule for yourself. Writing it down can help you stick to your schedule. If you have thirty minutes in the morning, and thirty minutes in the evening, schedule a task each day for those timeframes. Then, as you complete the tasks, mark them off of the schedule. Scheduling a period of time first thing in the morning to work on your organization tasks can be a great way of getting yourself energized for the day, and can create the type of momentum you need to remain productive all day long.