Today we are talking about the keys to organizing and decluttering and how to be successful in organizing and decluttering and so this is a very simple concept once you really understand it. What I hear most common when speaking to people about organizing is, “I try to organize and I try to organize my home, but I feel like I'm always organizing over and over again and it just never stays that way.

The truth is that organizing your home should really only be done once and then it is just maintained over time. You may decide to change your organizational system OR redecorate, but the act of truly getting organized should only be done once.

Organizing is about creating systems in your home that enable you to recover. For me that is the ultimate key to being successful with organizing and decluttering your home. So then you ask, “What is a system”? A system is something that is organically created for you, it is unique to you and your family. So in other words I cannot recreate my family’s system in your house. I cannot pick up my system and place it in your home and think that it's going to work perfectly it is not because it is unique to the Morales household.

Now, you can use my system as an inspiration in your home, but ultimately you have to develop your own system that is unique to your environment it is an organic system something that is developed organically.
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When I was single I had a completely different system and it was a lot easier because it was just me I didn't have to take into account other people in my space and so that system changed a little bit when I got married we were in the same space but there was another person that had to be considered within that system and so we developed a system for my married life well then we had a child and moved. This required us to develop new systems and adapt some that were transferrable to our new home. The system you choose to create is very important for your overall success. Understanding what that system is and how it is organically created.

Lets talk about recovery. What do I mean when I say and it enables you to recover? Well, I have a system, but that doesn't mean that my home is not going to get in disarray it doesn't mean that I'm not going to have messes in my home. What it means is that you are choosing to live. You're not a statue in your home, so it is going to get messy. There are going to be things that you have to pick up or clean up from time to time but being able to recover means that if someone called me right now and said Dana I am in the neighborhood and was hoping to stop by in thirty minutes, is that ok? My response can be sure come on without having a coronary.

My home does not stay in a state of perfectness. It is organized but it is also lived in. I have my system established in my home, so if this scenario happened, I could immediately pick up the space based on my systems and get it organized to a point where someone walking in thinks its pristine.
The reason I’m able to do this is because I have organic systems developed in my home that enabled me to recover quickly in order to continue to live my life. In essence if my house is a mess from top to bottom it still does not take me all day to get my home back into organized status right or and I hate to use organizing that in that in that way because your home if it is truly organized using a true system then it's still organized it's just a matter of you having to recover you have to put the stuff back where it belongs it doesn't mean that it's disorganized it just means that things are not where they belong so there's a fine line there's the line of I need to clean up my home and there's the line of i need to actually create a system and organize my home those are two totally different things.

Once you truly are organized and you have a unique place for every single thing then you don't have to continue to do that you may have to adjust it from time to time which I call maintenance but you don't have to constantly reorganize. You ultimately are just recovering and maintaining so those are the keys to organizing and decluttering.

Remember, organization does not have to cost you a dime organization is more about the concepts and the thought processes behind how you place things in your home.

I hope you found this information helpful and you understand the point. Organization is about developing systems in your home that enable you to recover.