The Clutter Fairy Weekly #163
Efficiency versus Effectiveness | How to Avoid Decluttering Burnout
Have you ever spent hours organizing minutia, only to discover that you hadn’t made any progress toward your most urgent goals? In this episode, we’ll explore the distinction between efficiency and effectiveness, especially as it applies to organizing and productivity.
When you’re wrangling a long-term decluttering project, sooner or later your energy wanes and decision fatigue kicks in. We’ll talk about causes of decluttering burnout and offer strategies to help you move past it.
In episode #163 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses these topics and answers questions from our viewers and listeners.
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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.
Is It Really Worth It?
This week’s assignment is to reevaluate the work you’re planning to do against your ultimate goal and its timeline, to see if it’s the most effective thing you could be doing right now:
- Thinking about your current project goals—in any area of your life—pick one of those goals to reevaluate.
- Find your to-do list for this project goal. What steps have you planned to accomplish this goal?
- For each of those steps, ask yourself, “Do I have to do this to accomplish the goal by the deadline?” or “Does this step directly affect my accomplishing the goal?”
- If the answer is “yes,” then this step is a keeper.
- If the answer is “no,” then maybe this task is work that you want to do, but it doesn’t need to be done while you’re working on this current project goal.
- Decide whether you want to save this task to do later, perhaps make it part of another project, or not to do it at all.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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