If you were to describe the life of a successful person, how would you begin? Are these people disorganized in their life or are they clear about what they want to do? In order to reflect success, you need to surround yourself not only with clear intentions, but also with a clean environment. Of course, you shouldn’t be focusing on your cleaning more than your dream, but studies have shown that people with less clutter tend to be more productive.
Think about it for a minute: when you want to find something, how long does it take you? The time that you’re wasting to look for that item could have been spent doing so many other wonderful things. It’s in your best interest to begin looking at where you work and live to see how you can organize yourself better.
First of all, you will want to throw away anything that you simply don’t need. Too often, we hang onto things because we fear that we ‘might’ need them. And while this might be the case, most things can be replaced easily should that day arrive. In the meantime, we are filling our lives and our homes with things that get in our way and are of no use to us – cluttering our energy and making us less efficient. Our lifestyle normally suffers from this.
Next, you need to learn how to organize your things so that you can find them when you need them. This is going to vary for each person. Some people find that buying organizers, boxes, and shelves makes organization easier, while others feel that using what they have already is sufficient. Think of this step as a creative process. Find ways to organize your things so they make sense to you. If you need to change the system in a few months, that’s fine, but for now, you need to figure out how to arrange things so that you have time for your dreams.
Have a most outstanding day
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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I guess this is going to become less actual because of the world financial depression, what do you think?
Clutter robs us of time – whether it is finding things lost among the clutter, or having to manage the clutter which builds up. This is not just physical clutter, but also information, things like emails which can easily clog up the inbox. This can hinder us in what we really want to do.
Clutter of the mind is just as problematic. It is all too easy to waste time and energy on things that have no value to us – demands on our time that can weigh us down. I’d rather not read, watch or listen to things which distract me or give no value to me.
For example, the amount of useless trivia about celebrities is just astounding. I rather not know about how many times a celebrity has been to rehab/cheated on their spouse/been involved in a fight. This information would fill up valuable brain space that could be used for more important things.
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Hi Sean,
This post makes me smile. I am naturally pretty organized and thrive in a clean and tidy workspace. I don’t know if I do it to save me time as I just love the feeling of having everything in order.
I always worry that if I died and my house wasn’t clean and tidy for my family to resolve my affairs; if I wasn’t already dead, I’d die of embarrassment. I’m the type of person that even if I had a cleaner; I would clean my house before she came. Yes, I know it’s a problem and I’m working on it.
It’s clear that you are pretty organised with all the commenting that5 you have been doing. That’s what keeps you ahead of the pack and will ensure your furture success. And that’s someone I would want to be in my team!
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Over time the YOTA forum has been getting more organised and so important posts are becoming easier to find. Yang’s checklists for example. I think, next, the YOTA forum could do with a list of checklists to get it better organised.
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I started to de-clutter last year. There is still so much to go.
It’s unbelievable how much ‘stuff’ we can accumulate. And they make tv shows around the concept of decluttering – hoarders are a very strange breed! :0
Having too much clutter around me does affect my mood & how I work.
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I am amazed how much people can accumulate over time – those shows are definitely great at showing this side of peoples lives.
Apart from the physical clutter that we all accumulate, as Tom mentioned above there is the clutter that fills our minds on a continual basis. This waste of space can form distractions that can keep us from focusing on the end goals.
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I know where you are coming from.
That is how I am. We tend to clean motel rooms before the cleaners get there. It’s amazing how much the cleaners appreciate.
I wasn’t always like this. I learnt this when preparing to sell our house. I asked real estate agents for advice on how to present the house and the first thing they advised was to declutter. So we did. And guess what? The stuff we dumped we didn’t really need.
We have carried it on over here and find it so much easier.
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Quite true. De-cluttering is one important way to ‘clear one’s path’ as it were, but throwing the bathwater with the baby still in it is plain nonsense. There are things that are important to us, and serve us well. Perhaps it is more a good tool to use to re-evaluate at regular times what we are doing.
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Hello Sean,
We moved not long ago, and after living in our previous address for over seven years we sure had a lot to clean out. Its amazing how much you have in one house, things that you do not really need. St Vincents and Life Line loved us in January. I am a neat freak and can not stand mess in and around my house, so I can see how cleaning out the house cleans out the mind. I think we should move house more often so that you can have a real good spring clean each time
Cheers
Lisa
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Oh my lordy…
UPDATE: Even after I de-cluttered on 2 different occasions last year. The first time I threw out 16 bags of stuff and gave to goodwill a few big bags of clothes. Second de-clutter resulted in a bunch of old Uni texts getting a farewell party and more crap moving onto a better life in the bin.
Then came to moving to Ettalong Beach late last month. I could not believe how much crap I have. I threw out even more stuff, had a garage sale, and other stuff I just didn’t have time to sort thru was chucked into boxes and shipped up here.
I didn’t sell everything in the garage sale – I have an electronic typewriter and stuffed toys that I will be giving to a worthy charity up here.
My lesson – don’t leave it too long to de-clutter. De-clutter your life on a very regular basis.
Like keeping “regular” on a health level. We eat fibre & drink lots of water so we don’t get “backed up” – we should treat our life the same way… then our lives wouldn’t be so constipated.
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Don’t get “backed up”, living a constipated life – that’s a fantastic analogy Samantha!!
I have to say I’m so guilty of this – the Clutter Queen… 
I used to be such a clean-freak, almost obsessive-compulsive kid, but in the last 10-15 years I’ve lapsed into being a total hoarder, just like my parents! It’s a horrible disease & I wish I could channel some of my anally-retentive childhood…
Although it’s been good at times to have everything-including-the-kitchen-sink on hand, I have to be honest & say there is such a drain on my mind & energy when I walk into my office & see paperwork & goodness knows what, stacked up in piles around the room…
It would be nice to know what leads a person to go from one extreme to the other, as far as organisation goes (or lack of..) but I guess all that matters is creating the NEXT set of goals to work towards, even if it means clearing out one drawer/cupboard/box at a time, freeing up physical & mental space to move forward!..
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I won’t deny that I do have a lot of clutter around my flat, and it does affect my energy to a degree. All you have to do is look at how you feel when you DO finally get around to having a clean up and getting things sorted. It feels so much better, and you have a feeling of satisfaction about it all.
With regard to the clutter wasting my time, that’s not necessarily so. While my flat is cluttered, I’m the only one that lives here, so it’s not like things are being unnecessarily moved about. And when I do put something down, or need to find something, I can, because I have a reasonable idea of where I would have put it.
This comes more into effect when you are working in a kitchen (as I do). Over the years, I have been able to impress my bosses with being able to tell them where they could find ingredients or objects, with relative ease, because I’ve always put them back where I got them from.
That could be a system for people to try. If you live in a household with a few people or more, try and get them into the habit of putting things back where they found it. That way, there is always at least two people, that know where any particular thing is!
Cheers,
Pete
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Hi Sean
I don’t like clutter in fact I clean my workspace up every Sunday ready for the week. As I am strongly visual, I notice things when they are messy and I tidy up, but I am not a fastidious fusspot either. I like my house clean and comfortable.
I am a person with piles, hmmm no not those piles. I tend to put things into piles that need to be done, things that I need to file, things that I don’t know what the heck to do with so that pile gets moved around the house constantly, it’s a bit like something John Cleese would do!
I feel that it is a good idea to not make your life cluttered and to make space and be organised so you can find stuff when you need it.
Gee Sean, I wish you wouldn’t keep reminding me about being organised! LOL – I like clutter – but clutter does impair my organised approach – disjointed approach is the result. You should see the piles (as Elly said, not those piles!) on my desk, sofa, and floor!
As for the mess on my desktop! Enough said on that score. Digital dust gathering!
“Think about it for a minute: when you want to find something, how long does it take you?” I am not going to answer that!!!!!
Hi Sean,
I quite enjoy being organized & like to have checklists for most tasks so that I can keep on top of what I am doing as I often have a variety of things going at a time. I feel that having a cluttered mind is one the worst times for me & notice the lack of efficiency which inspires frustration. Thanks for your words of wisdom : )
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