Easy upkeep. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? But everything in the STYLE process leads us to exactly that.
When we Start with Successes, we identify the systems, containers, locations, and approaches that match our styles. Instead of focusing on the problems, we focus on the things we're doing right.
When we Take Small Steps, we chip away at our organizational challenges, making progress via baby steps.
When we commit to saying, Yes, it has a home! we find and create logical, consistent homes for our belongings.
When we work to Let it go, we consider the role downsizing plays in the overall process of organization, deciding on the best homes for things we no longer need.
All this brings us to Easy Upkeep, the last piece of the STYLE process. This final step pulls together everything we’ve done so far — our successes, the small steps we have taken, our organizational plans, the containers we've chosen, and the habits we've created. Easy Upkeep includes troubleshooting and refining, replicating things that work, tossing out things that don’t, and adjusting the things that sort of work until we settle into a system the works for us and our styles.
Does that mean things will be perfect? I'm sorry to say it does not. As long as new things come into our homes and we live full, busy lives with our families, we're likely to need to keep adjusting what we're doing. But, once we've identified our styles and the tools that work with them, the upkeep becomes easy, at least most of the time.
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