10 Ideas to Help You Get Motivated to Organize

1. Look through some home decorating magazines. Tear out pages that contain room layouts, storage solutions, or decorating arrangements you like. Use them for inspiration and to help you shop for creative storage solutions.

2. Get 10 index cards and write 10 ten-minute tasks on each of them (e.g. clean out the medicine cabinet, clear off the surface of the refrigerator, recycle old newspapers, etc.) Get 10 more index cards and write 10 ten-minute rewards. As you complete each task card, enjoy one reward card!

3. Let in some light. There's nothing more depressing than organizing in a dark room. Open the window shades wide or turn on the lights. Bring in extra lamps if necessary to make the room you're working in bright and cheery.

4. Turn on the tunes. What rocks your world? Beethoven? Blondie? The Beach Boys? Get your MP3 or CD player on and dance the clutter away.

5. Beat the clock. Set your timer for 10 minutes and see how many pounds of clutter you can toss. Your house will have that 'lighter' than air feeling when you're done.

6. Declutter with the intention of helping others. Things you're not using now could make another person's day. Bring gently used appliances, clothing, toys and more to a charitable organization, and give yourself a pat on the back for your kindness.

7. Invite a friend over to help you give your clutter the heave-ho--preferably a friend who has a good eye for things that are keepers and things that are clutter. When you're both done, order in some lunch and enjoy each other's company.

8. Work in 10-minute spurts. Feeling overwhelmed? The best thing to do is start somewhere--anywhere--for 10 minutes. Just keep tossing things you no longer need. When the 10 minutes are up, take a 10-minute break and pick up where you left off. Decide ahead of time whether you're going to have 3, 5, etc. 10-minute organizing sessions that day, so you feel a sense of accomplishment and closure when you're done.

9. Write down your accomplishments. Whenever you finish an organizing task, write it down. By the end of the day, you just might be able to announce at dinnertime that you put all your books in alphabetical order, you cleaned out the junk drawer and you finished writing out a bunch of thank you cards. Do this in a pretty journal for an added dose of inspiration.

10. Major organizing job? Have a major celebration. If you decided to go all out and do something big, like organize your entire clothes closet or declutter a basement that hasn't been touched in years, that deserves a special celebration. Take a photo of the finished project, post it on Facebook if you wish for the world to see, then go out for a spa treatment or a nice dinner with someone you love.

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AWESOME....thanks for sharing Ali!!!!

These are all great ideas Ali thanks for posting!

Now this is totally my kind of work space! Do ya just love it? Of course I wouldn't have the center table....and I'm not really sure I need all those shelves on the wall (my husband already said no to that!! ......)however I do love the computer space, the drawers, and working space!!!!!! As far as the rest of the house, it's all good!......but I can't walk in my shed!!

ohmyland that is Gooooorgeous Daaaah----ling! LMBO!

That is an amazing space! Love it!!!

I could handle a scrappy space like that.

Thing is sisters, can we keep it clean??? hehe.

anyways i started doing this, i started by spending 10 minutes putting my clear stamp collection in a photo album, now im about to spend another ten just putting things away in my room.