How To Develop Well Organized Room Habits

Even though we might not say it loud, as human, we all want to live and stay in a clean environment. As much as we might want our surroundings to be clean, maintaining the state of being clean for most of us is tougher than any herculean task. Not even when you have your children around.

But, there are some individuals that are in the same situation as yours’ yet, their rooms ― kitchen and bathroom inclusive — are always neat and you can only wonder of how they achieve such.

If you are reading this article, you are about to discover some of their secrets and additional ones they might not be aware of.

But before that, why do you even need to ensure your room is well-organised? What is the essence of pursuing a goal without knowing the purpose for doing so?

Here are some few reasons you need to develop the habits of ensuring the cleanliness of your room.

1. Elegant and Beautiful Appearance

The difference between a bathroom or kitchen you admire and another you detest (probably your own) could be in the arrangement and cleanliness.

Aside from this, the cleanliness of a room makes it comfortable and relaxing for anyone in it.

2. Healthy Food Lifestyle

Disorganised room encourages the adoption of ill-healthy habits such as unhealthy food choice. In a Psychology Today article, an expert referenced a conducted research thus; “An Australian-U.S. study conducted by Lenny Vartarian et al. (2017) showed that people will actually eat more cookies and snacks if the environment in which they’re offered a choice of foods is chaotic, and they’re led to feel stressed.”

3. Optimal Thinking Ability & Improved Mental Health

While describing the effect of a disorganized room, a Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Susan Krauss Whitbourne said; “All of this clutter, physical and mental, can interrupt your flow—both your ability to move and your ability to think. It turns out that your well-being could also become victim to what we might call the “clutter effect.” A collection of recent studies on stress, life satisfaction, physical health, and cognition all speak to the value of streamlining.”

Easy to Practice Tips to Develop Well Organized Room Habits

Just as promised at the beginning of this article, here are the secrets of developing well organised room habits;

1. Decide to Make This Happen

This may seem irrelevant, but it is the main pillar all other secrets we will be discussing lies on.

You must first decide you wanted a cleaner room than the one you already have. Without doubt, that should be the reason you are currently reading this.

2. Plan & Schedule Your Calendar

Dedicate a specific day of the week to taking care of your room. It is not mandatory to clean the whole house in a day. Moreover, you may need to rush to work.

Instead, choose a day and time for each section of the house. Determine this based on the frequency of use of the home-segment and how disorganised they could tend to be.

Mark the days on your calendar.

3. Delegate

Getting your room organised may appear impossible in cases you are not the only one using it. To save yourself of much stress and getting things done on time, delegate.

Get others involved. Discuss with them the most convenient way to achieve this for the parties involved.

4. Learn to Say “Now” instead of “Later”

Many of us are a victim of procrastination. Nothing yields good result when procrastination is involved. Whenever you have plans to arrange your bathroom, kitchen or any other room in your house, do it at the specified time and never postpone till later.

Doing this consecutively makes “a habit” and on the other way around, if you keep postponing, that will be the reinforced habit too.

5. Get Rid of Things You Don’t Need

Call it a minimalist lifestyle, it works! If you discover your room is getting disorganised in spite of the much work you put in to make it look otherwise, identify things you can do without and get rid of them.

Also, learn to only buy things you need in the room while avoiding things you can do without. If you closely observe your friend’s room you may be admiring because of the organization, you will discover the number of items in relation to space is scanty.

This habit saves you much stress and at the same time helps to curb squandering habits.

6. Get Used to Saving Online

CD ROMs, office files and other things that can be converted into electronic format should be stored online instead of cluttering your room with them. They are safer and easily accessible from anywhere that way.

Your kitchen recipes can be accessed online instead of buying a hardware copy of the latest recipe your friends are trying out.

This shouldn’t debar you from purchasing your favourite songs disk for instance. The point here is to be digital as much as possible. Let the internet house it for you while your room in return is well-organized and attractive.