Becoming Organized In 1 Minute A Day

When I was much younger than I am now, my mother asked, urged or told me to clean up my room. I don't know about you and how you responded to that request or 'command'. I was never the person who loved to clean his room. But I learned a valuable lesson back then.

The moment my room was cleaned, it was much easier to find stuff, put things on my desk again and even to walk across the room without stepping on something. Why wasn't I doing this all the time? The answer to that question was easy: I didn't like to clean up.

One of the lessons I quickly learned what that when you clean up your room or desk, you put all the related stuff near each other. This way you not only have to look in one place, you also feel more comfortable. You get peace of mind!

The only problem was that... well, I didn't like to clean my room. It just took me too much time.

That is when I started to make sure I did all my cleaning in as little time as possible. I set myself a goal. The entire room had to be neatly organized in just 1 minute. You can probably imagine that in the beginning this was a problem. Not the cleaning, but the time. I had to figure out where I had to put what items. When that was clear... I only had to decide whether to keep the information or throw it away. When I kept it, I immediately knew the location to put it.

My mom sometimes had to come back in and tell me to clean my room. About one minute later, I was done, showed the bag of stuff that could be thrown away and I was ready to play with my friends.

Skip forward many years.

I still have a room to work in (no not with my parents). I also have a desk. When I need to clean up (usually at the end of the day), for fun, I sometimes set a timer to one minute. Just to see if I can still do it.

Then... I go through my room and organize the information. Everything is sorted out and arranged again.

The result is everything you can expect. In one minute, I clean my room and desk. Of course the first time this took a little bit longer, but now it literally takes only one minute.

You can do this as well. Take small steps on a daily basis and you organize your desk and room in less than one minute!

By: Arjen Ter Hoeve

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Additional tip: use the one minute approach to many more things in your life. Doing something only 60 seconds is easy, you have the time to do it and you accomplish something. I do this with my mindmaps as well. It is called the one minute mindmap system. Have a look at MindmapsUnleashed.com