A person, even in the single stage, finishing is a particularly huge project. Who doesn't have thousands of objects at home? When you become a family, you have more things when you have children.
You didn't know how to start, and even didn't have the courage to do it, so you backed down. In another case, I was in a high mood at first and saw everything. As a result, due to lack of planning and rambling thoughts, I originally planned to tidy up the bookcase and pick up a book to finish reading. When I wake up, I find that I haven't achieved much, and it's easy to get discouraged.
Learning the steps of sorting can help you sort out the process of activities in your mind in a short time, so as to implement the sorting plan of specific things. The correct sorting process is divided into four steps:
The first step, classification
How do you classify things?
1. You should take out the most recognizable categories, I mean clothes, books, documents, food and drinks, and cleaning supplies.
Clothing refers to everything you wear. Not only your clothes, but also your shoes, hats, bags, ornaments, home textiles, etc. Books mainly refer to all the paper books in your family. Documents refer to all the papers and cards in your home except books. Dietary items refer to things related to eating and drinking, from refrigerator, kitchen to dining table. Cleaning products include personal cleaning, care, cosmetics and household cleaning, care and decoration.
The average person can easily judge how these five things are classified.
After dividing these five categories, you will find that some things are difficult to classify by yourself. I call it "indescribable items", such as stationery, medicines, electronic products, your hobbies, pet supplies, travel supplies and so on. It is scattered and difficult to classify. It doesn't matter, just put them together, and judge whether these things are needed by the first five criteria: useless, unnecessary, uncomfortable, inappropriate and uninterested. Throw away what should be thrown away, and the storage at the back will be easy.
There are some memorable items at home, or your dream items to prepare for the future, which are all your daily necessities. You can save them all for the last link.
How did you operate the above classification when you sorted it out?
When sorting out, according to the seven categories mentioned above, from easy to difficult, first sort out clothes, and finally sort out daily necessities. Because clothes are things that you come into contact with every day, and they are used frequently, life items are more difficult. Because it involves your life planning, including the inventory of your past life, it includes both your planning ability and your handling of past nostalgia, so it is more difficult, so it is recommended to sort them out finally.
Start with simple items such as clothes, books and documents. After improving your decision-making ability, you will be more handy when sorting out difficult items, such as "indescribable items" and life items that are difficult to classify. It usually takes two or three hours to sort out each item. How many things there are, whether you are too entangled, will affect the finishing time.
If you don't seem to have enough time to sort out a kind of items, you can break them down and make a small one first. For example, clothes can be arranged separately for one day, shoes, hats and bags can be arranged on another day, and reasonable time planning.
The second step is to concentrate at one time.
When sorting out each category, you need to take out these scattered items and put them together for one-time sorting. Take clothes as an example. When you concentrate, you need to take out your clothes from all over the year and put them on a clean bed or a padded floor. Pile them together and put them together. Why concentrate on tidying up? Because the more concentrated the finishing, the better the finishing effect will be. In this centralized arrangement, your brain can repeatedly practice the principle of choosing such things. Under this training intensity, your judgment on similar things will be improved rapidly.
The third step is to select and sort.
After all the clothes are piled together, you can sit next to this pile of clothes and start choosing one by one. In the process of selection, please use the five selection criteria taught in the first lecture. According to these standards, you can divide clothes into those to keep and those to throw away, so that natural clothes will be divided into two piles. As for those who feel particularly entangled and can't make a decision, they can temporarily put them in another pile during the sorting process. After the selection process is completed, carefully consider a bunch of hesitant things and classify them as reserved or unnecessary.
Step four, deal with unwanted things.
You need to throw away what you don't need, so what should you do with what you want to throw away?
1. The best way is to just throw it away.
Don't throw it in the trash can, please pack it and put it next to the trash can in your community or the clothes recycling station in your community. In this way, it will enter a natural cycle of society, and people in need will take it away soon. You can also let the garbage collector come to collect it. Throw it away directly, and everyone will feel distressed. You are bound to experience sadness and disappointment. Please cherish this distressed feeling. This kind of pain is proof that you are responsible for your decision. Only by really sorting out your thoughts can you have a deeper and longer-term impact on your life.
2. Secondly, selling second-hand.
Selling second-hand, we must have a correct goal. Your goal is to get rid of these unnecessary things quickly, rather than trying to recover enough money. Therefore, I suggest that you set the price slightly lower when selling second-hand, so that it is convenient to sell, and don't consider "Oh! How much did I spend when I bought this thing? How much do I have to sell now? " You have to spend extra time and energy on things you don't need.
donate
What needs to be noted here is that if you choose to donate it to avoid feeling distressed, you will find it useful and will not waste it. This mentality needs to be corrected. Please be sure to choose what others need, and don't use it as a way to solve your guilt. The way I object most is to give it to others, parents, brothers, sisters and friends. I suggest you don't. Give these unwanted things to others because you don't need them, because you don't know the needs of others, and giving them to each other may only bring trouble to each other. After all the unnecessary items are disposed of, the remaining items can be well received. This is why I emphasize that finishing is the premise of storage. In the view of our sorting department, it is invalid to sort the goods that have not been put into storage directly. It doesn't play a role in sorting out life.