10 Steps for Clearing Your Clutter

Uncluttered Room

Uncluttered Room

I used to devote a day or two clearing my clutter and organizing my home. This usually happens either when I have company coming over or when I can’t barely move around the room causing me so much emotional stress. Yes, I dreaded those days so I procrastinated and did not do it often enough. When I finally committed myself to simple living lifestyle, I poured over magazines, books and Internet postings about how to declutter and get organized. I came to realize that clearing your clutter needs not only determination, but a practical plan from start up to maintaining the uncluttered room .

The best way to clearing clutter is to do it in baby steps, following a Kaizen way of personal life. This way, the task does not become overwhelming and it does not take all your time to create an organized, uncluttered room for your simple living lifestyle. While in the process of clearing your clutter, put your buying binge on hold. [Read more...]

Kaizen for Personal Life

Kaizen is a combination of  two Japanese words,  改 (“kai”) which means “change”  and 善 (“zen”) which means “for better”.  Put together, Kaizen indicates “change for better”.  It has been translated universally as  “continuous improvement”.  It signifies the possibility of change through slow, incremental constant steps, creating powerful quality improvements in business and manufacturing processes.  Having been trained in management and quality engineering, I used Kaizen in my former corporate life.

Kaizen’s concepts are real simple, yet it takes discipline, consistency and determination to be able to adapt them in our personal life.

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