In the first days of the new year, many of us wonder: is it worth making a bet? Maybe you’ve already made your own resolutions, maybe you’ve just made a vague wish to start a new habit, to make a change. Most of us want to make tweaks to our lifestyle: to live healthier, to exercise more, to be more focused, to create a smoother, calmer, more ordered life for ourselves and our families.
We also all know that after a few weeks, these resolutions are nothing but guilt, because they don’t happen overnight and it’s easy to give up in the rush of everyday life. Few of us plan small steps: most of us want big changes. But big change is also made up of small steps, of everyday tasks!
In addition to the course, I’d like to help you make a real difference this year, so I’ve prepared a little surprise.
You’ll find a downloadable year planner to help you!
What if this year was different? Let’s get started together with the year planner!
Physical places and what they are like are very important in your life. A poorly arranged and equipped kitchen won’t get you cooking healthy meals every day, an opaquely arranged children’s wardrobe guarantees you’ll be late every morning and a messy desk will make it harder to keep up with administration, studying and work.
And I can help you change that and make the new system easy to keep up in your life. I’ve created a free downloadable year planner booklet that you can feel free to download. You can personalise this little guide to the space you most want to move forward with in your home or office. Print out as many sheets as you need: if you have more than one room to organise, or you and your girlfriend are going to start home decorating together, feel free to print out more copies!
How can the Home Organiser’s Yearbook help you?
Hopefully, this little guide will help you think through the small steps on the path to your dreams. So that your wish doesn’t get stuck in the realm of airy ideas and big resolutions, but becomes a concrete plan that you can implement day by day as you have time.
The Home Organiser’s Year Planner booklet will also help you to track your progress: you probably won’t have it until 10 January, but that’s OK. You can’t make big changes in a snap! You can’t plan a strict schedule when the weekdays come, you have to take meringue porridge to nursery, the dog coughs, your fourth pair of tights has run up in the morning rush… you’ll get it all done. You’ll see your progress in your year planner and feel free to adjust your plans to make sure you reach your goal.
It’s time to wrap up your previous year and plan the changes you want to make! The year planner will help you!
Your home should be a supportive, pleasant place and your belongings should bring you joy and make your life easier. Yet, sometimes we are overwhelmed by unnecessary items and our home becomes a constant to-do list in our lives. It’s time to reflect and let go of the previous year: you don’t need to feel guilty, just set goals and then do something about them.
In the year-planning booklet, I’ll guide you through the process of organising one point of your home into an orderly one. Choose the place in your home that is the least helpful, the least supportive, the least good looking. We can manage it together! The home organizer booklet will help you.
Step 1: free up space and get rid of unnecessary items!
You may think first that you need everything, but are you sure you need everything HERE? Is this where you use them, or is it just where they fall out of your hands on the go? Are they even still usable or are they broken, worn out, out of date? Let’s sort out the items that belong here and the items that are redundant or would work better elsewhere.
Step 2: Create a transparent and sustainable order!
As soon as you’ve cleared away the clutter, you’ll start to see how you can make better use of this area of your home. Re-organise the items that live here: things you use every day should stay in easy reach. And the things you take out often, every week, should stay within easy reach so you can find everything in no time! And the rest can go in the bottom of drawers, sorted, labelled and carefully put away.
Step 3: Replace what you need, make room for the rest!
The aim is not to run through your home like a tornado and throw everything out, but to create a sensible system of your own. If you realise along the way that you have five bars of soap but the shower gel you’re using anyway is already gone, make a note of it, get it, and feel free to put the soap away in the bottom of a drawer out of reach, and it will eventually run out at the hand wash. In the same way, at every organizable point, look for items to replace and move.
Need more specific instructions for a specific item? I’ll show you!
If you’ve only got a few minutes, the free Daily Organizing Minutes video course is for you. Just short and to the point! So we’ll take a look at one topic at a time to help you create a more orderly and peaceful home.
In our Time Management Quick Start Training, we look for SOS solutions to the above problems. In 4 hours together, we’ll look at how our goals, daily routines, focus and relaxation are interconnected. Because they are interconnected. What can you expect? 4 hours of intense learning, after which you’ll come away with at least 1 good idea on how to change your time management.
On the blog, I’ll try to cover as many topics as possible that will take you step by step through the clutter of objects to a well-organised, personalised order in your home. The Konmari method is one of the possible alternatives, so I’ve summarised the main points of the home organisation expert’s guidance.
If you’re finally ready to tidy up your files, documents and warranty papers, click here for Judit Strémen-Buzás’s post on clearing the clutter between papers.
Want a more transparent bathroom tidy to speed up getting ready in the morning or bathing in the evening? Read Judit Szitás’s experiences with bathroom tidying up!
And yes, the next post is also related to a Judit: here are Judit Fehérvári-Varga’s experiences of how she managed to organise her clothes with the help of the home organisation meeting.
And Ági Huszka can help you with the capsule wardrobe, or the minimalist wardrobe.
I left a bigger mumus at the end: did you find your third garlic clove at home? Check out Judit Szitás’s ideas on kitchen decorating!
And if you want to create a sustainable, beautiful system on your desk that will keep you focused, follow my Facebook page, as I’ll have a detailed blog post coming soon on all types of desks.
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Forward to a focused, relaxed, cosy 2024!
It’s important to keep in mind that when you’re designing your home, don’t be driven by external expectations. The goal is not to confuse your home with a furniture catalogue, because then that home wouldn’t serve your needs.
The point is that you should feel comfortable and at ease within the walls of your home, that you should enjoy spending time there and that every object should serve you. After all, that’s what they do!
I hope the Home Organiser’s Year Organiser booklet will help you to set good goals, turn them into plans and create a freer, more fun home. Go 2024, here we come!
