Decluttering and organizing go hand in hand. You can’t really be effective at one without the other.
Oftentimes people spend a lot of extra time organizing and reorganizing, missing the first step of decluttering. Clutter is one of the roots of disorganization.
Your organizing efforts will go farther if you start with decluttering.
But once you have decluttered your space, the necessary next step is to organize! You need to find a home for all of your things. Where will they live in your house?
If you don’t give everything a home and create a system for organizing your things then disorganization and clutter will accumulate again.
In this video I share more about decluttering and organizing and how they go hand in hand.