Improve Your Life in 10 Minutes a Day!

When I am working with my clients, I use a proven 5 step process to help them get organized. The final and most important step in the process is to develop new habits to keep their homes and lives feeling peaceful and calm once the project is completed.

A recent client of mine has lived in her home for over 30 years. She and her husband raised three children there and have managed to pack every cabinet, drawer, and surface to the brim with stuff.

They have spent the past 30 years filling this home with stuff and it had gotten to the point where they just could not live like this anymore. They could not find anything they needed, so they would purchase a new one to replace it. Money was being wasted. Nothing had a home and the constant clutter was affecting their mental health.

I knew when we met for the first time that the key to their success was going to be developing new habits to keep their home organized.

After just two sessions we were making some good headway with the removal of clutter.

One of the habits we discussed was to spend 10 minutes each day clearing any clutter and putting things away from the areas we had already organized.

It has been proven through the research of BJ Fogg, Ph.D. who is a Behavioral Scientist at Stanford University that attaching a tiny new habit to an existing routine is the most effective way in helping you to maintain that new habit.

Being a busy nurse and always putting her patients first, she was not certain if she could carve out the time to try this new habit.

But she was determined to try something new in order to get her home back under control.

So for this client, she decided to attach her tiny new habit to her morning tea-making routine.  As her tea was steeping, she put on a timer for 10 minutes and was able to quickly get the space back in order by putting things back in their home.

This tiny new habit has made a profound impact on this client's life. She says she is able to think better without all of her stuff lying around the house. She is equally amazed at how she has been able to maintain the spaces we have already organized.

What’s one tiny new habit that would make a big impact in your life right now?

Be well,

Meghan LeBaudour