May Is for Motivation: How to Energize Your Organizing Projects

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.

What’s My Motivation?

This week’s assignment is to take a deeper dive into the reasons you’ve expressed for wanting to declutter and get organized:

• If you haven’t already taken the survey we prepared for this week’s episode, please take the survey now. (You need not submit your answers online. If you’d prefer, you can just write them on a piece of paper.)
• If you’ve already taken the survey, review your responses on the survey results post.
• From the answers you provided, highlight or jot down a few phrases or sentences that elicit the strongest positive emotional reaction from you. (For example: “Be more creative” or “I will have fun in my daily life” or “Decluttering will lift a big weight off of my shoulders.”)
• Keep the paper containing your motivational phrases with the materials for whatever organizing project you’re working on right now.
• Try reading your motivational phrases out loud before you start on a short session of decluttering or organizing. Then read them aloud again when you’re ready to take a break.
• Do the phrases help energize and concentrate your efforts? If so, repeat the exercise of reading the phrases out loud whenever you find yourself losing focus.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.