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Jamie Novak:
Organization is a skill-a skill that anyone can learn but the difference is you have to want to get organized.

Professional organizer, Jamie Novak, author of 1000 Best Quick & Easy Organizing Secrets, says for those who aren't organized there is a price to pay.

Are you re-buying things because you've forgot that you own them or you can't find them? Is it causing you chaos and stress every day? Or are you losing time? The average person today is wasting 55 minutes a day looking for lost or misplaced items. But truly the person needs to decide this is something that they want to do and they're going to start small.

And by starting small, Jamie means pick an area of your home that bothers you the most, clean it up and organize it. But that's usually where things start to go wrong because a week after you've cleaned it up it's a mess again-because getting organized is more than just cleaning up an area once and moving on.

It takes about 21 days to break an old habit and create a new one. And we want to give ourselves a week or so at minimum to live in that new space to see if it's working for us before we move on to something new, or else all the spaces in your home are going to be undone and it's going to feel more chaotic than it may feel right now.

You can link to Jamie's website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.