Have you ever seen tidying up your room as a daily chore that you have to do every day, just like buying groceries and cooking?
If your answer is yes and you're used to it, I'll tell you: There's a way to separate chore from your daily chores and become something you can do once in a lifetime. What is this method?
Today I will introduce its three principles for you to quickly experience the mysteries:
1, principle one: specifically describe the mirror image of the ideal life you want, and give an accurate definition of happiness
2, principle two: put all similar items together, clean up at one time, leaving only the "heartbeat" items
3. Principle 3: Set a fixed storage location for all items, and return them to their original places after they are used up
First, let's look at Principle One: Describe specifically the mirror image of the ideal life you want and give a precise definition of happiness
You may be confused, what does tidying up have to do with ideal life? Of course there is, think about it, what is your motivation for sorting it out? Is it to make your home more comfortable? So what kind of finishing effect must be achieved to make you feel comfortable? The answer is to be filled with happiness. How can you make your home full of happiness? That, of course, is to make your home your ideal!
Therefore, thinking about what kind of life is your ideal state, and sketching a clear mirror image in your mind through imagination, can make you organize more efficiently. As someone once said: Action with a goal is more efficient.
For example, after thinking about it, you are sure that the ideal life you have always longed for is a life of calm and elegant: when the first rays of the morning sun shine indoors, you slowly open your eyes and get up to change into yoga clothes. On the balcony, filled with colourful potted plants, you'll be bathed in the morning sun while stretching your body to soothing yoga music and awakening the day's vitality.
After your workout, you walk to the cozy and elegant restaurant, pick up the small and moderately sized kettle from the minimalist table, and pour the water into the cup you like best to replenish your body.
Afterwards, you come to the neat kitchen, pick up that well-made ceramic pot, and make yourself a breakfast...
Such a wonderful scene, is it not just to imagine that you are full of happiness? And if you really put your home in such a beautiful state, how can you bear to destroy it? So thinking about what kind of life can make you feel happy, and then purposefully sorting out in order to achieve this effect, can make your goals clearer and your actions more precise when you organize. After sorting out, I am more willing to maintain this beautiful state.
Next, principle two: put all the same items together, clean them all at once, leaving only the "heartbeat" items
Once you have a concrete idea of the lifestyle you want to live, you need to start acting. Make your current home the way you want it to be. So how do you do that?
First of all, you need to find the ones that will help you have a sense of happiness among the many items. How? Quite simply, just as when you see a loved one, your heart doesn't feel like it's pounding, and when you touch something that makes you feel happy with your hand, you also have a feeling of "heartbeat": the thought of "I would be happy if I used something like this" will arise in your heart. For example, a piece of clothing, when you put it on, you will be in a good mood; for example, such a thing is a book, when you read it, you can feel joy and happiness.
Knowing the feeling of "heartbeat". Faced with a mountain of items, you may be embarrassed to think: Do you have to judge whether there is a "heartbeat" feeling in the same way? What a huge project it would be. To reduce the workload. You'll need a whole new way to sift through items. This way is to put the same kind of items together without leaking and sorting, rather than sorting them by place like the traditional way.
So why is this more efficient? Because if you organize it according to the place, it will not only disturb your perception of the "heartbeat" feeling, but also make you have the idea of giving up due to the excessive time, and finally end hastily.
It's like sorting out clothes. If you sort out the clothes in the bedroom according to the "heartbeat" standard, when you tidy up the living room, you find a few more clothes. So you pick them up again and decide whether they are "moving" or not. Later, you go to the bathroom and find that there are several clothes in the dirty clothes basket, and you seem to think that one of the clothes is very similar to one in the closet. So you go to the closet again to find the dress that looks like that... In this way, constantly running around in various places, you not only interrupt the feeling of "heartbeat", but also waste time.
And if all the clothes are found out one by one, put together to judge these problems can avoid these problems, so that the finishing more efficient.
Take the example of tidying up clothes. When you spread all the clothes on the ground without leaks, you can first quickly find out the clothes of the same style and compare and filter. Then, "touch" the rest of the clothes, piece by piece, and ask yourself: If you wear it, do you feel happy? If there is, then leave it. If not or unsure, throw it away. Through such continuous touch perception, you will grasp the feeling of "heartbeat" more and more accurately, and the efficiency of sorting will naturally become higher and higher.
If you still hesitate when judging, although there is no "heartbeat" feeling for some items, but you always feel that it is a pity to throw away, then try to sort out the items that are not commonly used in the same kind of items.
Clothes, for example, can start with clothes that are not in season, because many of the clothes in the season may have been worn by you two days ago. Although these clothes may not make you feel "heart-pounding", it seems to be a strong reminder to you that it can be worn. Throwing it away will leave you feeling wasted guilty.
And not the clothes of the season, because it has not been worn for a long time, so there will be no other emotions such as guilt to interfere with whether you experience whether there is a "heartbeat" feeling. In the process, you judge the sensations of the heartbeat more and more skillfully, and when you face the clothes of the season again, you will not be disturbed by too many other emotions.
Okay, now with clothes as the starting point, you can clean up everything. Here, it should be noted that you do not clean up until you have made a judgment on all the items. Why? Because once you clean up, the room only achieves the effect of cleanliness, not the effect of the ideal life.
For a room that's just tidy, you won't have much motivation to maintain it, and it may not be two or three days before the room becomes messy again. And if the finishing effect reaches the state of the ideal life, looking at the new room, you will suddenly have the determination to never return to the chaotic environment as before. And this kind of determination is the key element that will allow you to finally reach the end of the finishing line.
4. Finally, let's take a look at principle three: set a fixed storage location for all items, and return them to their original places after they are used up
After the "heartbeat" classification, you are now surrounded by items that make you feel happy. So how do you store these items? You need to set up fixed places according to the category of items and store them.
The reason is that if you still see where there is a free place in the house, as before, and put things in your hands, these scattered items will soon make the neat home step by step become a messy warehouse.
On the contrary, when all the items are placed in a fixed position in an orderly manner, the home is naturally still the state you want.
This sounds like it's easy to do, and it's good to return the thing to its original place when it's used up. But there is one place that you may overlook. That's the handbag. You may think: handbags are used every day, why bother to take out the contents and put them away?
That's because if you don't clean up the contents in time and put them back in place, the following situations can occur: when you make a temporary intention to change the bag, important items may be forgotten in the original bag; or, when you need to find the key, the things that have been in the bag that are not used much will prevent you from finding it... Thinking back on these embarrassing experiences, do you have the urge to clean up your handbag right away?
Of course, in order to make it easy for the items that you carry with you every day to be easily taken away at any time, you can put them in a box. In this way, before going out every day, you only need to spend a few minutes to put the necessities in the box into the handbag, which not only ensures the cleanliness of the handbag, but also does not increase your trouble, is not a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
When all the items are used up, all the things are returned to their original position, and your home naturally maintains the state after the finishing, and this sorting method can be called "only need to be carried out once, you can completely get rid of the magic finishing method of tidying up".
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Well, I've shared with you today the three principles of mind-stirring finishing and let you experience its wonders. They are:
1, principle one: specifically describe the mirror image of the ideal life you want, and give an accurate definition of happiness.
Through deep thinking about your ideal life, outline the specific mirror image of your ideal lifestyle, so that you have clearer goals and more efficient actions when sorting out.
2, principle two: put all similar items together, clean up at one time, leaving only the "heartbeat" items. Change the traditional way of sorting and sorting by place, put all the same kind of items together, touch them thoroughly, leave items with a "heartbeat" feeling, and let these items always convey a message of happiness to you.
3. Principle 3: Set a fixed storage location for all items, and return them to their original places after they are used up. When you can return all the items to their original places in time, your finishing results will of course be maintained, and this tidying up will naturally become the last tidying up in your life.