11 Tips to Help Get You Clear Your Clutter When Your Motivation Drops

11 Tips to Help Get You Clear Your Clutter When Your Motivation Drops

11 Tips to Help Get You Clear Your Clutter When Your Motivation Drops

It happens even to the best of us! Youve decided to declutter your home and youve started sorting. You started with lots of energy and enthusiasm but now youre feeling a bit overwhelmed and are considering chucking the whole thing in, convinced you are destined to be messy.

To keep moving forward and avoiding feeling overwhelmed and giving up, try these helpful tips to keep you clearing your clutter:

1. Whenever you feel overwhelmed, it means that the job you are working on is too big for you to imagine completing. So you need to break the job down into smaller goals. For example, if your original project is to declutter a bedroom, then you need to break this down in smaller, bit-sized goals. So your goals now become organising the drawers, organising the closet, organising the bedside tables, organising the bookcase. So your original goal has now been broken down into 4 smaller goals. By breaking down your organising goal into bit-sized chunks you can see the job is much more manageable and doable.

2. Ask for hands on help from family or friends. A job shared seems to go faster and to be easier.

3. Ask a friend to be your phone buddy - if you dont want others to see your mess, than ask your friend to be a phone buddy. Phone them at the end of each decluttering session telling them what you achieved. This way you are accountable for making progress

4. Hire a professional organiser - not only will the job get done, you will also discover different ways to store items. By selling off your unwanted items, you can even cover the costs of the professional organiser.

5. Ask yourself what do you plan to achieve by decluttering. Make the end result so powerful in your mind, that it is impossible not to strive to achieve it

6. Do a bit each day

7. Sing while you work. When you enjoy what you are doing, time passes quickly and the job gets done.

8. Make your reward for completing the project so worthwhile that you will do what you need to do to get your reward

9. Look at the rest of life and see where you are organised. What sorts of things do you do to stay organised in that area? Can you use any of that motivation to keep decluttering?

10. Take a day off from organising. Rome wasnt built in a day and you dont need to declutter in a day or a week or a month. Make an agreement with yourself to take time off and set a day/time that you will start again. You will find that you return to your project with renewed enthusiasm and energy.

11. Watch an organising type show on TV and be inspired by what they do. Read a magazine article on decluttering and find at least one idea that you can use. Search the internet for ideas and videos (give yourself a time limit of 30 minutes so you dont procrastinate by surfing the day away) and use one idea straight away.

Staying motivated can be challenging when you are decluttering. To keep moving forward and avoiding feeling overwhelmed and giving up, try some of these helpful tips above.

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