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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
Is your clutter taking control of your life?
Organise Your Home will show you how to use the in8steps system and organise your entire home without turning it into total chaos in the process.
Work at a pace your lifestyle allows and use this tried-and-tested system to completely overhaul your relationship with your stuff.
MaryAnne Bennie is an organising expert, speaker and director of in8 home office and life organising.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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Organise Your Home: De-Clutter, De-Stress
Table of Contents
First published in 2013 by Wrightbooks an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
42 McDougall St, Milton Qld 4064
Office also in Melbourne
Typeset in ITC Berkeley Oldstyle Std Book 11/13.5
Organise Your Home © MaryAnne Bennie 2013
Excerpts taken from From Stuffed to Sorted, first published in 2012 by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Author: Bennie, MaryAnne.
Title: Organise your home: de-clutter, de-stress / MaryAnne Bennie.
ISBN: 9781118626559 (pbk.)
Subjects:
Housekeeping.
House cleaning.
Home economics.
Dewey Number: 640.41
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (for example, a fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review), no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, communicated or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. All inquiries should be made to the publisher at the address above.
Illustrations: © Tom Wilson
Cover design by Susan Olinsky
Cover image: © iStockphoto.com / Caner Tan Bidci
Internal design by Peter Reardon, www.pipelinedesign.com.au
Printed in China by Printplus Limited
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Disclaimer
The material in this publication is of the nature of general comment only, and does not represent professional advice. It is not intended to provide specific guidance for particular circumstances and it should not be relied on as the basis for any decision to take action or not take action on any matter which it covers. Readers should obtain professional advice where appropriate, before making any such decision. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the author and publisher disclaim all responsibility and liability to any person, arising directly or indirectly from any person taking or not taking action based on the information in this publication.
About the author
MaryAnne Bennie is Australia’s organising guru. She began her professional organising career after realising that being organised was one of the most valuable, transferrable life skills a person could possess.
In this book, MaryAnne introduces readers to the in8steps system and shows how easy it is to apply these steps to totally reorganise the stuff in your life and turn houses back into homes. As a wife, mother and businesswoman, MaryAnne fully understands the struggle to juggle home, office and life. The in8steps system is tried and tested and, if followed, will work for everyone regardless of how much stuff or space they have.
Prior to becoming a professional organiser, MaryAnne was a senior lecturer at a leading Australian university. She holds a Bachelor of Education and Master of Business.
MaryAnne’s organising expertise is regularly featured in newspapers and magazines, and on websites and radio. She motivates and inspires people, and fully equips them with the information and tools they need to organise their homes, their offices and their lives.
Introduction
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
Regardless of where we live or what we do, we acquire and accumulate items meant to enhance our quality of life. We call these items our possessions, our assets, our things or our stuff. These items come in the form of furniture, clothing, entertainment equipment, tools, cookware, crockery, cutlery, supplies, food, glassware, ornaments, artwork, books, transport, technology, appliances, footwear, paperwork, sports equipment and toys. And that just names a few! When in balance, these items are useful and appreciated: they support us in our endeavours and make life easier and more comfortable.
We have an infinite capacity to bring stuff in, but we have a finite capacity to store our stuff. Everything is competing for space. Everything needs to earn its right to stay! When something doesn’t have a home, it’s homeless. Because homeless items have nowhere specific to live, they live anywhere and everywhere. They line the hallways, park on benches, slide under beds, perch on cupboard tops and hide in corners. Then they breed like rabbits! Before we know it we have a house full of mess and the resulting chaos has a detrimental impact on our quality of life.
We think more storage will solve the problem so we add cupboards, shelving and containers. Some of us renovate or put on an extension; others relegate the car into the driveway or the street and use the garage as a storage solution. When desperate, we may resort to the ‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ storage technique and rent off-site storage to deal with the excess. If only we had a bigger house, everything would be fine!
Our possessions should support us and our lifestyle. They should reflect our personality and style. They should bring us happiness, not despair. Why, then, do we find the things we took so much pleasure in acquiring are now suffocating us, causing us misery and wasting our precious time?
Sadly, some of the things we acquired on past shopping expeditions no longer have their magnetic appeal. Our love affair is over!
The in8steps system helps you to reassess your relationship with your stuff. It shows you how to decide what stays and what goes, and how to efficiently store what remains so it’s ready and available when you need it. The delicate balance between your stuff and your available storage is restored. In this new relationship, your stuff will support you now and into the future. But when the time comes to part company, you will know how to gently break the news. The in8steps system will show you the way.
So climb on board. Ready or not, here we go!
Chapter 1
Masterclass 1: setting up for success
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!
Joel Arthur Barker
In the mood
Remember the last time you went on a trip? You did some planning, chose a destination, set the dates, decided how to get there, booked your accommodation and set aside some spending money. You really got in the mood. You imagined being in new places, meeting new people and having new experiences. That’s how I want you to feel about this trip to your new destination of being organised. I want you to see, feel, smell, hear and taste it. I want the excitement of it to be pulsing through your veins throughout your journey.
Complete the following three exercises to get you in the ultimate organising mood.
Exercise 1: be organised
What does being organised mean to you? Is it having a place for everything and everything in its place? Is it not being embarrassed if someone pops in? Is it having time to do all the things you have been putting on hold all these years?
Visualise it!
Imagine you had a crystal ball and you could see your organised future. What would you see, smell, feel, taste and hear? Take a few moments to visualise and experience your organised future through your crystal ball. Visualise every room in your home in its organised state and ask yourself these questions:
What do I see?
How does it smell?
What can I feel?
How does it taste?
What can I hear?
Now close your eyes and answer the questions.
Write your responses for each room in your notebook.
Exercise 2: calculate your savings
No time to waste!
How much time and money will you save by being more organised?
You already know that being disorganised costs time and money. But have you ever really thought about how much time and money you will save? Being more organised streamlines every single thing you do: from getting ready in the morning, to going to work, to making dinner, to looking after the house, to retiring in the evening. If you’re disorganised, every single thing you do takes more time than necessary. It could be the few extra minutes it takes to move the junk off the ironing board to iron a shirt for work, or the time you waste every day looking for wallets, purses, glasses, remote controls and keys. Maybe it’s the 30 minutes you spent on hold on the phone, waiting to explain why you shouldn’t have your power cut off, after forgetting to pay the misplaced bill.
Now let’s look at your situation and time it.
Tick, tock! Time it!
Calculate your time saving: just think back over the past week and note the time you wasted through being disorganised. The amount of time you wasted will become the amount of time you save.
I will gain ________ hours a week by being more organised. My time savings will come from: _____________
Money down the drain!
When it comes to money, just think about the food you waste every week simply because you have no idea what you need when you go shopping. What about the things you buy again because you can’t find the ones you already have? If you have ever wasted money on late fees, interest charges and fines for being tardy with your bills, you know how much that hurts. Is your car fading in the sun and losing value due to a disorganised garage? What about other frustrating things such as lost gift vouchers and receipts for warranty items needing repair?
Now let’s look at your situation and cost it.
K-ching, k-ching! Cost it!
Calculate your money saving: just think back over the past week and calculate what you lost through being disorganised. The amount of money you lost will become the amount of money you save.
I will save $__________ a week by being more organised. My money savings will come from: ____________________
Now let’s look at your situation and spend it.
Spend it!
You have calculated how much time and how much money you will save by being organised. Now look into the future and imagine how you will spend that time and money.
How will you spend the extra time you have and extra money you save? _______________________________
Exercise 3: shift your thinking
Talk to yourself!
It’s now time to change your mindset.
