✨Small Shifts, Big Results: Mindful Habits for Home Organizing 🧰🏡
Just as we need physical tools to get organized and keep our spaces in order 🧺🧹, we also need mental tools to inspire, motivate, and support the actions of organizing our homes and belongings.
We need our brains as well as boxes! 📦🧠
As many people do, I enjoy collecting various bits of wisdom and life hacks 📚💭
These sayings, mantras, and thought prompts resonate across many areas of life and can be valuable when seen through the lens of home organization 🏠✨
Today’s thoughtful tool for home organizing:
🧠💬 “It’s easy to make your life difficult, it’s not that difficult to make your life easy.”
This has been a saying of my husband’s for many years. It is straightforward and so accurate. 💯
Let’s start with the first part:
“It’s easy to make your life difficult.” 😬
For example:
🧥 It’s fairly effortless to toss your clothes in the corner of your bedroom — no special clothes-tossing training required. Easy!
Result: Can’t find lucky shirt for big presentation at work → become a nervous wreck → give a poor performance → get fired. 😖
🔑 Tossing your car keys wherever the minute you walk in the door is a simple act — a child could do it. Easy!
Result: Can never find keys → late for everything → all-around stress-fest 😩
(If you didn’t already get fired for your poor presentation — see above — this is guaranteed to do the trick.)
🥬 You can keep shoving fresh groceries into the front of the refrigerator on autopilot — no strategic thinking involved. Easy!
Result: Leftovers in the back belong in an assisted living facility 🤢
→ Loads of food going to waste
→ General gross state of affairs.
So, without an ounce of hard work on your part, you’ve made your life difficult — congrats! 🎉😅
Now the second part:
“It’s not that difficult to make your life easy.” 😌✨
For example:
👚 Most people don’t change clothes more than three times a day. Unless you are a Vegas showgirl or on a Mardi Gras float, your outfits probably involve a couple of simple items.
→ Take five minutes a day to hang up / put away / hamper-ize any clothing that’s not in its proper place.
Not so strenuous!
🧺 Designate a key receptacle in a common and accessible area of your home. Hooks, bowls, baskets — whatever it is, just make it a mandatory first stop when you walk in the door.
→ Pair it with another action you always do upon returning home:
🐶 Pet the dog = put the keys in the bowl
📬 Pick up the mail =put the keys in the basket
No heavy lifting involved! 🪶
🕒Take a half hour once a week to:
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Clear out the fridge
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Wipe down shelves (not all of them! just the ones with spills)
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Eyeball what needs to be tossed, frozen or cooked asap
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Make a grocery list accordingly
Now the interior of your refrigerator is no longer on the List of Historic Places!
The wrap-up 🎁
The bad news: It’s sneakily easy to slide into a state of disorganization 😵💫
But the good news? It’s fairly effortless to reclaim a calm, joyful space ✨🕊️
