Clutter and Hoarding – A Simple Way to Declutter Your Home Office
Does your home office look like a tornado has come through it? Many times we don’t take the time that our home office needs to be maintained. We have so many other things that scream for our attention and the clutter builds quickly. I am going to offer you a simple way to declutter your home office. This simple yet seemingly effective technique is ‘daily diligence’.
The use of this technique of daily diligence has helped several of my clients in many areas of their cluttered lives. This technique has been utilized by several clients to successfully declutter and maintain their home offices.
Taking just a few minutes a day to put everything in its proper place will drastically simplify maintaining your decluttered home office. Not to mention when you first begin you don’t have to take the whole office and get it in complete order. For most that would be too overwhelming and that is why it would more than like stay cluttered and probably get worse.
Just set aside a few minutes, 5-10 maybe, every day and make sure that time is spent utilizing organizational techniques that you have found work for you. If you are feeling like most of my clients and wondering where to begin, I have suggested that they start with removing the garbage first. That seems to have helped in many cases.
Several clients found that just by taking a few moments every day, daily diligence, they were able to effectively remove the garbage, reduce the clutter, and then maintain their home office.
One of my clients mentioned that she had been able to completely declutter her once overwhelming home office and that through utilizing daily diligence she is now able to quickly maintain and better utilize her home office. She said that she gave herself 5 minutes every day. She took my advice and began removing the trash first. She then began to organize the rest of her office right down to her filing cabinet.
Another client said that she began by setting a timer, giving herself 2 minutes every day. She said that she felt that 2 minutes was something she would be able to stick to and not feel it was too overwhelming or taking too much of her time from other household things that needed to be taken care of.
She admitted that it was slow going in the beginning but she did begin to notice a difference and that helped keep her motivated to keep coming back every day. She said she now can maintain her office in less than the 2 minutes she originally started with and she has used this technique successfully throughout many of the other cluttered spaces in her life.
