Home Organizing for Beginners: Organizing, cleaning and time management strategies

I’m going to guess this has happened to you before, and I only know because it has happened to me too! You finally feel motivated to get organized. You have the whole weekend planned, you’re going to start with your office, then do the junk drawer in the kitchen. You know it’s a stretch goal, but you totally feel up for it. Saturday morning hits, you get up, get your cup of coffee and dive in starting with your desk. It’s cluttered, stuff piled up all over it so you start there. You start with a pile of paperwork, you see some old bills and think oh no! Did I pay those? You take a look online and find that they are paid. OK, still feeling motivated you dive back into the rest of the piles. There are some of the books your kids used to read, you page through them and feel a pang of sadness. You brush that to the side along with the books. Now you open a drawer, you know the top of the desk isn’t done, but that all needs a lot of hard decisions, the drawers should be easier. But they’re not. You forgot that the last time you got organized you shoved a bunch of old paperwork inside. UGH! Maybe the junk drawer will be easier and you need more coffee. It’s noon and nothing is done yet! You make lunch, sit down to watch a show and pretty much never return to the project.

This happens because making decisions is HARD. And it’s ok. If making the decision of what to do with your kids books was easy, they wouldn’t be piled on your desk, right?

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right?  In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us.

Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can put together a Decision Strategy. In this episode I’ll share with you what a Decision Strategy is, why you need one and what to consider to create your own.

You can dive deeper into devising your decision strategy with me by your side. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization.

Your Home Organizing Educator,

How do I get organized and stay organized? This is a question I hear a lot and it’s a question I used to ask myself too. I was so tired of organizing the same spaces over and over again. It happened often enough for me to name the cycle the hamster wheel of home organizing.

We have a set of lockers in our entryway coming in from the garage. I lost count on how many times I got this space organized only to have it be a complete disaster again within the week. Oh my gosh I would get so stinking mad! I’d just feel defeated. It’s the worst because that’s the space I’d walk into as soon as I got home from work. And if you listened to last week's episode you’d know that in creating your home organizing vision you consider how you want to feel when you walk into your home or a space. I want to feel peace, calm and joy. Not frustration, anger and defeat!

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right?  In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us.

Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can put together a Home Organizing Plan. In this episode I’ll share with you what a home organizing plan is, why you need one and how to create it.

I would recommend printing out the free download that goes along with this podcast so that you can easily put together your Home Organizing Plan. Go to home organizing for beginners . com and sign up. I’ll put the link in the show notes. You actually get a lot more than just this single download, you get access to all the downloads for all 8 strategies. They’re all in the free program called The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization.

Your Home Organizing Educator,

I felt fear and frustration everyday when I’d walk into my home. It was always a mess. I’d get motivated to do something, set aside an entire weekend to finally get organized only to wind up irritated with being interrupted by my kids. I’d yell, they’d cry. Ugh. It was an ugly situation! One I’m not proud to share, but I know now that I’m not alone in this cycle.

I just wanted to walk into my home after a long day at work and feel peace, calm and joy. I seriously wish I’d had that back then.

I don’t want you to miss out on the precious time with your kids. I want you to find that peace, calm and joy before it’s too late!

To do that, you’ll have to do something different than what you’ve done before or what we are constantly told by society. Everything I teach starts with sustainability in mind. You don’t want to spend your time organizing the same spaces over and over again, right?

Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can learn where to really start - with a Home Organizing Vision. In this episode I’ll share with you what a home organizing vision is, why you need one and how to craft a useful one.

Free Resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization

Your Home Organizing Educator,

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right?

In today’s episode I’ll share with you the 8 strategies you need to employ in order to stay off that hamster wheel of home organizing forever. Then over the next 8 weeks we’ll dive deeper into each strategy. We’ll identify what the problems are when you don’t utilize the strategy and we’ll lay out the steps you can follow to implement each one.

If you want access to all of these strategies today, you can get them for free in the online course The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization. You get video training on each of the 8 strategies and documents to use that will help you implement each one. Again, if you’re ready to get going you can access all of what I’ll be sharing over the next 8 weeks today for free. 

Free Resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization

Thanks so much! 

So today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this:

Welcome to Home Organizing for Beginners.

In each episode I share a microscopic home organizing topic. That just means it’s something you can implement today, from start to finish, if you so choose. 

Do you find that as you’re living daily life you sometimes come across something and you think, I should get rid of this? Like, we don’t use this anymore. Something like clothes or toys that your kids have outgrown? Maybe even some of your own clothing that you don’t like or wear anymore. Basically you’re ready to declutter some items from your home.

The simplest way I’ve found to get stuff out of my home that I no longer want or use is to donate it. 

Today I’ll share the problems you’re running into that’s preventing you from donating your stuff. I’ll share what the solution is, why it works and how you can implement it today.

To learn your options to continue your home organizing journey with me by your side go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com

Thanks so much and have a great day! I hope we have the opportunity to get to know each other better.

You need a way to organize your closet so that you can find the clothes you want to wear when you want to wear them. 

Do you find yourself running out of time as you search for something to wear every morning? Maybe you have a favorite shirt or pants, but you know you shouldn’t wear them everyday even if you’re a stay at home mom.

I knew I needed to get my closet under control when I found that I didn’t even use it anymore. It was full of clothes but it was way easier to throw the clothes that I would wear on the bench in my bathroom and get dressed from there.

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this:

In this episode I’ll share the problems you’re seeing with a chaotic and unorganized closet. I’ll share what the solution is, why it works and how you can implement it today if you so choose.

Thanks so much!

Free resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization

As someone who’s just starting their home organizing journey or feels like they need a fresh start you may think getting organized just isn’t possible for you. Maybe you’ve tried but it just never seems to work.

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: 

Home organization must BEGIN WITH THE BASICS by following these 3 steps.

1. Sort - in this step you’re sorting through all the things.

Are you ready to begin with the basics so that you can reach your vision of an organized home?

In the online course Home Organizing for Beginners, you’ll begin with the basics and implement each of these steps so you can get there, so you can have the organized home you envision. I'll be with you every step of the way.

The first 5 people to purchase pay $47 by using the coupon code SOS. That’s a savings of more than 50% off the normal price of only $97.

To learn more go to https://homeorganizingforbeginners.com/

Thanks so much and have a great day!

This is the time of year when we have some natural motivation to get organized, but what happens when you lose motivation?

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey, losing your motivation and not knowing how to get it back can be devastating.

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is STAYING MOTIVATED DURING YOUR HOME ORGANIZING JOURNEY.

Do you find yourself making progress, feeling good about organizing your closet, desk or junk drawer only to have it all brought to a screeching halt by interruptions? Do you feel like getting organized is just really hard (IT IS!) and you get distracted easily?

Today you'll learn the best way to get yourself motivated again. It involves pictures, but not what you've heard before!

To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com.

Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.

Tammy

There’s this thing that often has to be done BEFORE you can even start thinking about organizing your home. 

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is GETTING YOUR FAMILY TO HELP CLEAN… so you can get started organizing.

Cleaning is a thorn in your side, right? It’s time consuming and everyone in the house just messes it up almost instantly. It is so incredibly frustrating!

Does it seem like nobody sees what needs to be done? Or worse yet it feels like nobody cares!  Are you feeling like you have to do it all on your own? These feelings can make you angry and bitter with those you love most. (it did for me!)

Today you’ll learn there’s one primary thing that needs to happen so that you can get your family to help clean. This will put you in the position of managing your home instead of doing all the things yourself so that you can get started, get organized and ultimately stay organized.

To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com.

Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.

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Getting started can be the hardest part of getting organized.

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is GETTING STARTED.

You want to get organized and stay organized but if you aren’t able to effectively get started it’ll never happen.

There’s a reason you struggle to get started in your home organizing journey. Overwhelm. Do you get mixed messages from friends, family and even Google on where you should start organizing? Do you want everything to be perfect? So much so that you’re paralyzed and can’t even start? Maybe making difficult decisions makes you cringe.

Today you’ll learn a better way to think about getting started on your home organizing journey. One that will help you move past the overwhelm anytime it sets in so that you can move forward, make progress, build momentum and implement solutions that will last.

To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com.

Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.