How Is Your Home Decluttering Plan Coming Along?

So, how is your home decluttering plan coming along? You made it your New Years Resolution to get it started, but it's almost February now, you know! Have you gotten started? If so, good for you! If not... well, February is often a great month for working indoors!!

Do you need some help with getting your home decluttering plan underway? What will help you most is getting the right MINDSET about decluttering, you know. And how do you do that? Here's how:

Be honest with yourself as to why you want a clutter-free home. Embarrassed when people drop by unannounced? Tired of making excuses to yourself for the cluttered home you live in? If you admit to yourself exactly why you want to really make that home decluttering plan really work, you will be much more able to focus on solving that problem!
Celebrate even the small steps. Don't get down on yourself! If your home decluttering plan has you attack the office this week, but you only managed to get through the desk, don't be too hard on yourself. Admire your newly organized desk, and then commit to the office closet and the file cabinet for the following week! Don't give up if you don't meet every single goal 100%... at least you're doing SOMETHING! "The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time"!
Consider your strengths and your weaknesses when making your home decluttering plan. If you know you get distracted by items that hold old memories, declutter with a box beside you to put items in that you want to look at later, when you've gone through the majority of the clutter in that particular closet. If you know you could easily "waste" an hour of your decluttering time chatting on the phone with a friend who calls, turn the ringer off! If you're good at lists, make a huge "To-Do List" full of small, achievable tasks, and start crossing them off one by one!

If you want to share the progress and your excitment about your success decluttering the next time someone asks you, "how is your home decluttering plan coming along?", put some thought into tailoring your plan to suit you. The effort is more than worth it! Successful people make consider the different sides of a challenge, make a plan, and then get to work. Be one of those successful people, starting today!