Marilyn Bohn | Creative Organizer

A man who moved into our neighborhood was all excited to ride the hills above his home. He bought a mountain bike and took off up the mountain. No matter how hard he tried he kept hitting all the bumps, dips and tree roots on the path.

An experienced biker told him if he would stop looking where he didn’t want to go but instead look where he wanted his tires to go it would be easier. He tried it and sure enough his ride was much smoother.

When we organize our homes this is good advice to follow. When cleaning out a kitchen cupboard instead of thinking there is not enough room and trying to make things work as is, take everything out and visualize how you want it to look. With this in mind start putting things back in the cupboard. If necessary purchase additional shelves to put in the cupboard so everything can fit. If there are stray things from other places that don’t belong, remove them to go back to their space.

As a professional home and office organizer my recommendation is to look forward toward the goal and what we want the cupboard or room to be, we will get us there faster and be more organized rather than looking at just the problem as we see it.