I just read an article about how clutter affects women and can cause depression. Although I don’t think I’m depressed, I do have clutter. I know that my clutter sometimes makes me feel overwhelmed and pressured.
Here’s one suggestion that I want to try. They said: Adopt the Rule of Five.
How the Rule of Five works:
“Every time you get up from your desk or walk through a room, put away five things. Or, each hour, devote five minutes to de-cluttering. At the end of the day, you’ve cleaned for an hour.”
Since my desk is one of my worst clutter spots, I’m going to try applying the rule of five to it. I’m ready for a break and want to go get a late evening snack in the kitchen. First, I’ll look for 5 things on my desk to take care of. Then I can have my snack.
How about you? Do you have a favorite clutter-busting technique?
Other articles by Virginia Allain on decluttering:
Discovering Mom 
Chhaya used the Pomodoro technique during grad school. It’s one I try to use from time to time (when I’m feeling disciplined!) It’s a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It uses a timer “to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for ‘tomato’, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student.”
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There are six steps in the original technique:
1. Decide on the task to be done. 2. Set the pomodoro timer (traditionally to 25 minutes). 3. Work on the task. 4. End work when the timer rings and put a checkmark on a piece of paper. 5. If you have fewer than four checkmarks, take a short break (3–5 minutes), then go to step 2. 6. After four pomodoros, take a longer break (15–30 minutes), reset your checkmark count to zero, then go to step 1.
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