Home Organization Tips for Procrastinators

	Lack of time - You don't feel you have a day or a week to devote to organizing anything right now so you put off home organization---just until you have time to do it right. Boredom - Home organizing seems like a boring way to spend your time. And doing boring tasks makes you want to take a nap, not do more of them. So you put off home organization until you're in the mood (whatever that means). Lack of motivation - You know that you would be able to find your stuff better if you were organized but that thought still doesn't excite you enough into taking action. Overwhelming - Your home is such a mess. You'd rather just close your eyes and shut it all out. You'll think about organizing your home more when you have a clue where to start. For now, you'll just shut that closet or room door. Those are just a few reasons why people might procrastinate when it comes to home organization. But you can conquer procrastination preventing you from organizing your home. Here are a few tips and tricks for home organization procrastinators who just can't seem to start organizing: MAKE IT DOABLE. Choose home organization tasks that you can complete in short time spans. If you choose to organize your entire bedroom, you'll probably get tired or distracted midway through doing this. Then you'll end up with a bigger mess left undone. The same goes for if you choose to organize your bedroom closet. That's still thinking too big. Instead, think smaller. Organize your shoes. Or organize your belts. When a task is doable, you get it done and feel good about it. When you feel good about something, you're motivated to repeat the process too. MAKE IT FUN. Play some favorite cheerful tunes while you work. Music can be very inspirational and give you a beat to work to. And you can listen to it in the background while you work. Warning: Keep the TV off. Television will distract you from organizing, not make it more fun. A good television show plot will quickly draw you in (as it is intended to do). REWARD YOURSELF. If you do want to incorporate your favorite television show into your home organizing plan, use it as a reward. Say to yourself "I'll organize items X for 30 minutes. That'll lead right into show time as my reward for my organizing diligence." Then you won't feel guilty about watching television instead of doing that home organization task because you'll feel you have earned that free time (and you have). Another reward could be monetary. Yes, pay yourself for completing home organization tasks. Get a shoe box or a large coffee can. Cut a slit in the top just large enough to fit money through. Then put a dollar bill in it every time you finish a home organizing task. Dream about what you'll do with your "earned" savings and then do it when you have earned enough from completing your home organizing tasks. It could be something as small as treating yourself to a meal out or taking a trip. Repeat this process as needed or desired. USE A TIMER. Set a kitchen cooking timer for each task. Use time spans like 15 minutes or 30 minutes. You can use this for almost any task such as picking up trash around the house, sorting or folding laundry, organizing photos, organizing and tearing out pages to keep from magazines, or making decisions about a pile of clothes that need to be divided into a keep, donate or trash pile. When the bell rings, stop. At first, you may realize that you didn't get anything done because you were busy looking or reminiscing and not organizing. So you'll have to repeat that task, perhaps the next day. But now you'll know to focus. You'll be aware of what you did or did not do and why it happened that way. Now you know what that time span feels like and that it does not allot you time for "playing", just organizing or accomplishing the task you assigned yourself. Using the timer will help you get into the habit of focusing on your organizational task and getting it done. When home organization becomes routine in some cases, you'll forget all about procrastinating.

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