Organise Your Life: Simple Tips for a More Productive and Stress-Free Lifestyle
I have been thinking about the speed of change recently, one of the reasons is that I am a very impatient person and would like things to be; done, fixed, organised, or decluttered yesterday. There is however some value in taking your time to stop and slow down first. To take the time to see what you are currently doing, and what is contributing to the clutter and chaos you have? What is the real problem? You can from this stage move forward and make an overall and a more rounded plan to change.
Reflecting on life is in songs
Do you know the song Father and Son by Cat Stevens with the following lyrics? “But take your time, think a lot think. Why, think of everything you’ve got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not”. I think it is beautiful and it is a good idea to take your time to think and decide on the implications of your dreams now and in the future.
Relating this to organising and decluttering, what are the dreams for your home? How would you like it to feel and look? This is very individual and each person will have a different answer to these questions. This goes to show how challenging and unique both decluttering and organising are. It also shows that you cannot organise everything at once, you need to take your time and think a lot before you will see results.
As you grow a bit older and see the benefit of doing small incremental steps that add up to one larger project, you start to appreciate that going slow and steady without too many wins on the way (or so you think). Can really give a very solid foundation, as slow and steady is the perfect recipe for long-term change and the formation of habits, a deep understanding and a sense of truly being organised.
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