It’s an age old concept but one that we tend to forget when we’re running around from one appointment to another or taking the kids to school or a sporting event or piano lessons, but taking a moment to keep organized and neat can save time in the long run. It’s easy to poke fun at this idea, that taking a little bit of time out of each day can save time overall, but it’s true and if you find yourself struggling to keep a neat home or office, then it’s certainly something to consider.
When we’re in a hurry, it’s easy to let things go ‘until later.’ In the morning when you’re running late to work or school, you drop the cereal bowl in the sink and say to yourself that you’ll get to it later. Or you shove some paperwork that you have scattered across your desk to one side and think to yourself that you’ll organize that later.
Then later arrives, you come home late from a long, tiring day and grab something to eat. Then those dishes pile up in the sink and you profess to clean them tomorrow. And that paperwork soon finds itself under another stack of papers. And the dance goes on and on. This simple and basic example illustrates the dilemma.
A few days pass and you finally get to cleaning the dishes. Yet now the food is stuck firmly to them and you have to scrub each dish, as well as the silverware, just to get them clean. And the paperwork is a mess. You can’t find what you need and you have to spread everything out, making new piles to sort them all. Those few minutes that it would have required to get the job done and stay on top of the situation suddenly adds hours to your cleaning and organizing routine.
Try it and see how nice it is to take that extra 30 seconds or so to wipe the counter top off before you head to work and come home to find it clean already. Or to take 2 minutes to wash dishes before heading to the office and come home to a clean, empty sink. Once you get used to cleaning up front and coming home to less to do, you ll gladly adopt this habit.
Vacuuming is another thing that is far too easy to pass off to another time, but the more we do this, the longer dirt has to burrow deep down into the carpeting or into the crevices of the wood or ceramic tile floors. By taking a moment to run the vacuum across the floors every couple of days, you will save time and money by having to avoid costly carpet cleaning services.
There’s a reason that ‘old adages’ stand the test of time; they’re usually true, so the next time you think you’re saving yourself time by passing off a cleaning or organizing task until later, think again. You’ll thank me in the long run.
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