You Only Need One Minute to Organize Your Life
The year is coming to an end. Your 2019 resolution to start organizing your home is still left undone, or left in a limbo. Don’t worry, you are not the only one. 80% of people fail to accomplish their new year resolutions within 30 days.
The year is coming to an end. Your 2019 resolution to start organizing your home is still left undone, or left in a limbo. Don’t worry, you are not the only one. 80% of people fail to accomplish their new year resolutions within 30 days.
There is a new method to start even for the laziest of us.
I recently came across this article about Kaizen, which is the Sino-Japanese word for “improvement”. This has been a practice in Japanese culture for self-improvement.
The method of Kaizen was invented by Masakaai Imai, a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant, who believed that the philosophy could be applied to the business world as well as to personal life.
The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need. This comes from recognition of a problem. If no problem is recognized, there is no recognition of the need for improvement. Complacency is the archenemy of KAIZEN.
— Masakaai Imai, 1986
Focusing back on home organization, this is the easiest place where you can start on the Kaizen practice.
Spending one minute a day to reach the end goal of an organized home is not a tall order. Everyone should be able to do it. The main aim is focus on what you want to achieve and go towards it one step at a time.
Here are some tips on how you can start:
- Take a photo of your messiest junk drawer before clearing it out
- Decide ,one item a day, things that you would you want to keep and which you would want to discard
- Label what you have after clearing out all the unnecessary clutter, physically or digitally with applications such as WIZT-Where is it?
- Take a photo of the cleared drawer and compare it to how it was before.
Not only will this simple step kick start your drive to start organizing, it would also help you locate items faster in the future.
So start taking control of your organization, one minute at a time!
