General Organizing
Use a list to plan what you want to get accomplished. Have a Master List and a Daily To Do List. Everyday, move a few items from the Master List to The Daily To Do List and check them off as they are completed.
Know when you are at your best. Some people flourish in the mornings, while others do their best in the afternoons or evenings. Use this time to organize important projects and those that require more concentration.
Try the five minute rule. Take care of any tasks that can be done in five minutes or less instead of putting them off until later.
Delegate. You can't do everything yourself. Delegate in the office and at home to lighten your load. Train and follow up with your delegates to ensure these tasks get accomplished.
Bedroom
Get in the habit of making your bed right after you get up in the morning. This takes little time and will give the bedroom a clean, organized appearance.
Use under-the-bed storage organizers to store any extra blankets and things you seldom use.
Try not to use the bedroom as an office, workout room or storage area. It should only be used for dressing, sleeping, and relaxing. The bedroom is a place of rest and should be serene and comforting.
Keep your nightstands clear. There should only be a lamp and maybe one other item, such as an alarm clock or a book. Store any other books and magazines in nearby drawers or on a bookcase.
Have a special place for each small item to avoid it getting lost. For example, keep your watch and jewelry in a jewelry box or tray and try to put them there every time you take them off. Once in the routine, you will always know where they are if you don't have them on.
Closets
When you're ready to devote plenty of time to this task, go ahead and remove everything from your closet and review the contents. Sort the items into piles. Your pile categories should be: Keep, Toss, and Donate/Give to Friends/Sell.
Only keep what you love and wear. Try items on to make sure they fit. If it doesn't fit, either toss it or give it away. You should toss any items that are out of style, need fixing, or haven't been worn in a year.
Shoe organizers are great for every clothes closet in the house. There are many different designs and they can be placed on doors, against closet walls, or installed above or under closet shelves.
Divide your clothes into groups. For example, keep all jeans in one section, dress pants and skirts in another, and shirts in another. You could divide your shirts further by season: spring/summer & fall/winter, or by style: Dress or Casual. Then color code within those groups.
Kitchen
Try to throw out any items that are old or never used. Toss expired items, old food, knick-knacks, silly gadgets, and seldom used kitchen appliances (popcorn poppers, juicers, bread machines, etc.) If you can't remember the last time you used an item, you can probably part with it. Try not to add any more small appliances or unnecessary items to your kitchen.
Keep only a reasonable amount of items like twist ties, plastic/paper grocery bags, and empty jars. You can always acquire more of them so why do you have to have a surplus of them taking up valuable space in your kitchen?
Be sure to use silverware organizers to separate forks, knives, and spoons, instead of having them all mixed together.
For all of your kitchen items like bag clips, cookie cutters, and anything else small, try dividing these up into their own plastic bags and storing them neatly in a kitchen drawer. They will stay clean and organized for when you need them next.
Living Room
Never keep more than three items on your coffee table to avoid gathering too much clutter. They are not to hold keys, old magazines, or papers from work. Try using a mounted key holder so you always know where your keys are. Always keep current work items on your desk or in a briefcase. If they need to be stored, file them neatly in their appropriate file.
Get rid of excessive magazines and newspapers. Just keep a few current magazines issues and the current newspaper. If there are some articles you just can't part with, tear them out and start a book of your favorite columns and articles. Put old issues in the trash, recycle them, or give them to a friend.
Minimize furniture knick-knacks. Remove any items that don't really need to be there or pieces that you don't care for anymore. Give them away to friends or donate them.
If you have an entertainment center in the living room, you probably have a TV, a VHS or DVD player, a Stereo, tons of movies and even more CD's. To organize this area, first make sure that all of your electronic equipment is neatly placed in the most appropriate positions. If your entertainment center has disk slots, great. If not, it would probably be best to buy a media organizer that can fit into your entertainment center. Alphabetically organize your movies in one rack and music in another rack. Make sure everyone knows that movies and music are in alphabetical order and are to stay that way.
