Simple reminders to organize your life
by sunil sharma

Did you know that humans waste millions of hours every day looking for misplaced or lost items such as keys, mail, receipts, and other mundane stuff? And the average business executive wastes weeks every year searching for lost documents in messy files and desks.

When we are not searching for our stuff, we are buying it. According to the National Association of Professional Organizers, we never even use 80 percent of the things we purchase after few days of purchase, more than one-fifth of us pay our bills late because we can’t find the necessary paperwork, and 20 percent of our annual income is spent on unnecessary purchases - duplicates of papers, misplaced items, rush shipping costs, credit card finance charges, and impulsive shopping for things we don’t actually need.

Our home should be treated as a safe clean living space and not a messy storage place that we come back to. We all know that cleaning and organising is not an easy task and throwing away some of the old stuff we have cherished for a long time is way harder than it sounds. However, we should always keep in mind that decluttering is the first step to get away from stress, as well as one of the key steps to being successful.

Decluttering our space is similar to decluttering the mind from negativity and stress. You can look at your living space as a physical manifestation of the mind. Treat your home just like how you take care of yourself.

The negative impact of being disorganized is not limited to missed appointments or misplaced keys. Not knowing where to put things, not understanding how to plan our time, and not being able to meet our goals can contribute to depression, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, failed careers, unhappy families, even death.

We need to understand why being organized is truly important to us and to the people around us, and how it can impact our everyday life. Remembering that it’s the quality, not the quantity that matters. If we all, be mindful of our buying habits, not only can we create a beautiful space around us. but also be mindful towards the environment.

There are lot of ways to declutter your space and your mind.

Cleaning
Cleaning is one of the toughest things to do especially when we are preoccupied with a lot of things. But do you know that it can actually be very relaxing to clean the house?

Organizing
Organising involves putting things in order and categorising things based on their purpose. This also helps in locating what you need with minimal effort.

Letting Go
This is one of the hardest parts. Some of us are very sentimental when it comes to our things. Unfortunately, not all the things we keep have importance in our life.

Overcoming Procrastination
Procrastination is efficiency’s worst nightmare. Leaving things to be done at a later time not only lessens the chance of it actually being completed, but enables one to lose momentum and piles up the to-do-list.

Recycling
We wear 20 percent of the clothes we own only 80 percent of the time - rest just hangs. So, why not recycle some of those unused items by passing them on to someone who can really enjoy them.

sunil sharma
sunil sharma is a blogger, yogi, designer, engineer and humanitarian.