Getting Started: Organization
For most people, outer order contributes to inner calm. Getting control of our possessions helps us feel more in control of our lives.
Try This At Home: The One Minute Rule
Need a simple and effective way to get your life under control? Try the “one-minute rule.”
Here’s how it works: Immediately do any task that can be finished in one minute.
Yes, that’s right. Do anything that presents itself, right away, as long as I can do it in a minute. Keeping small, nagging tasks under control creates order, calm and makes a huge difference.
Gretchen Rubin’s Guide to Spring Cleaning
More Articles on Organization
Essential Listening on Organization
Essential listening on organization
- 10: Special Episode! Live from Elizabeth’s Cluttered Closet
- 160 Very Special Episode: Live from Elizabeth’s Cluttered Home Office
- 210: Very Special Episode! Elizabeth’s Favorite Clutter-Clearing Ideas from “Outer Order, Inner Calm.”
- 213: More Ideas about “Outer Order, Inner Calm” That Didn’t Make It Into the Book, a Tech Hack to Make Mornings More Fun, and Do You Have Dog Sense?
- 319: Ask Yourself, “Do I Use It, Need It, Love It?” Using the Return to Work as a “Clean Slate” for Habits, and Rebels Give Advice about the Rebel Who Won’t Read Emails
- 397: Stop “Phubbing” People, Plus Hacks to Get Organized, Clear Clutter, and Take Medications
- 443: Clear the Decks! We Try Something New to Get Ready for September, the Other New Year
Tools for Getting Organized
Outer Order, Inner Calm
With clarity and humor, Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn’t work.
Memento Journal
The Memento Keepsake Journal is made for those who want to collect keepsakes of their experiences, but are overwhelmed by souvenirs or the prospect of scrapbooking. Recalling happy times can boost happiness in the present, and mementos are a powerful way to keep those memories vivid.
The Happier™ App
The groundbreaking Happier app puts transformation within reach, by taking happiness from the abstract to the concrete. How? Habits. Research shows that around 40 percent of behavior is repeated daily, so when we change our habits, we change our lives.
