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You’ve been wanting to get organized for a long time. It seems a little daunting though, doesn’t it? It doesn’t have to be. In fact, you can get started right this minute. Try any one of these quick tips to help yourself get started on the road to organization right now. The best part? None of these are hard to do.

1-Decide for Control

No matter what, the first step to organization is to decide you are in control. We tend to get disorganized when we feel we are at the mercy of our stuff, our situation, and our lives. This is why it’s so important to consciously take control of our lives.

2-Create a To Do List

No matter what, you’re not going to get anywhere without some level of organization to start with. This means sitting down and making a list of the areas of your life in which you’re trying to get organized. This first list will be very valuable in helping you to stay on task. It will also help you to make sure you’re not missing something important.

3-Write Things Down

As you go about getting organized, thoughts will occur to you about what you’re doing. Keep something handy so you can write down these thoughts as they occur. This way you won’t forget some brilliant system to organize your closet and will remember to pick up more garbage bags when you go to the store.

4-Sort Your Stuff

Clutter needs to fall into categories. When doing the physical act of organizing it’s best to sort things into three piles: stuff to keep, stuff to toss, and stuff to give away. Here’s where you want to get brutal. Your best rule of thumb? Get rid of things which do not give you joy or which you have not used in a very long time. Pro tip? Don’t tear apart an entire room at once. Start small with a drawer or closet only.

5-Find Places for Things

Once you know what you want to keep, you need to determine a place for it. Clutter happens when we don’t have proper storage for what we do have. If you do not have a space for an item, it is time to look for alternate storage solutions, or even reconsider whether you truly want to keep it. 

6-Use a Calendar

Nothing gets you organized like a calendar. Schedule absolutely everything. Also, use the function on your phone to give yourself reminders of upcoming appointments and deadlines. This will help you to organize your time your time.

7-Overprepare

Sometimes it’s good to stock up on a few extra items, especially things you run out of frequently. This keeps you from needing to make frequent emergency runs to the store.

8- Get Professional Help

Finally, if you try all of these things and still cannot seem to get it together, you might fall into the “chronic disorganized” category. Or, you might just have too much on your plate to possibly do it all yourself. If either of these is the case, then you’ll need to get some help. You can get help in a number of ways.

• Hire a Professional Organizer: This is a person who can organize various aspects of your life. Some professionals organize kitchens; some organize an entire life. It’s up to you to figure out what you need help with. Even starting with just one thing can domino into other areas of your life.  

• Outsource : Another way to get professional help is to outsource certain things in your life. You can outsource housework, even cooking dinner to a professional chef, and potentially even certain aspects of your job if you want to. Anything that you hate doing, that takes too much time, or that you just can’t do, can be outsourced.

You can hire a virtual assistant to take care of administrative tasks, or a housekeeper to keep your home clean, or a professional organizer to help you identify what habits you need to break and what habits you need to introduce in order to help you stay organized. All of these can help in this age of extreme distraction.

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