The Clutter Fairy Weekly #78
Choreography for Clutter: More Tools for Setting Project Priorities
We’ve compared prioritizing projects to a juggling act, but with training and practice, decluttering can be as elegant as dancing. In episode #78 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers principles for setting organizing priorities to help you “choreograph” your work on a variety of spaces and projects.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
Turning Priorities into Plans
This week’s assignment is to apply the first prioritizing principle to a single room or section of a room in your space:
- Identity the room or part of a room that gives you the most discomfort—a place that looks or feels crowded, confused, or unattractive to you.
- Write down the purpose (or purposes) that you would like for your problem spot to serve.
- Make a second list of all the uses that the problem space is currently serving, whether intended or not.
- Notice any uses or purposes on the second list that are not on the first list.
- Keep these lists for reference to guide further planning when you’re ready to move forward with the next steps for tackling the space in question.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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