Procrastinating may be easiest way to declutter your home
Free up precious time in your week
Free up precious time in your week
Free up precious time in your week
Decluttering your home and actually maintaining a streamlined, clutter-free living space is no easy job. More often than not, the process of chucking out junk is a stressful one, and finding the time to actually finish the job you started seems unattainable. But there's actually a really easy way to find the time to declutter – and it's all down to procrastinating on purpose.
Faigy Liebermann, of Organize Pro, reveals in an blog titled, "" that by simply upgrading your time management skills, you can free up some time and fit your decluttering sessions into your weekly schedule.
"You need to purposefully and intentionally procrastinate," she wrote. "By procrastinating you can get more done. When you delay an activity, you consciously postpone that act and consciously decide to do another task that hopefully will further your life goals. In other words, you are prioritizing."
Liebermann says the four-step approach – delegate, delete, designate, done – is guaranteed to give you "success and peace of mind."
So what do you have to do?
First of all, write down all of your daily tasks for the day, which will probably end up looking like a rather long to-do list. It's the idea that even though you may have a list as long as your arm, you don't have to, or rather need to, get it all done today. Some tasks are urgent, but others can wait a day or two, and many probably within the next week or so.
Next, Liebermann suggests the following:
1. Delegate
Here, it's really important to focus on and purposely do the tasks that you are really good at and that further your life goals. "Which jobs in your life can you delegate? If someone can do the job at least half as well as you, let them do it," says Liebermann.
2. Delete
Liebermann says you should delete all tasks that you don't need to do, and ultimately, tasks that are draining your energy. "This applies especially to emails. There is no need to open every email," she explained. "Over half of all incoming emails can easily be deleted without a second thought."
3. Designate
Here, you should designate time in the future when you will tackle a particular task, or tasks, on your list. "This is purposefully and intentionally procrastinating," explained Liebermann. "If you don't have the time right now to get the task done, make time later in the week."
4. Done
Decide on the tasks that need to get done today. "Get up and make the first step," said Liebermann.
This should enable you to free up some time and start decluttering your home step by step.
For even more organizational tips, watch the video above.