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Before you can organize your home, you have to learn how to organize your time. Yes, even organizational tasks themselves need to be put in order before you can tackle them effectively! The last thing you want to do is spread yourself too thin between different projects. If you do that, you will never complete any of them, and will constantly feel unfulfilled. Worst of all, the mess will remain, and possibly even get worse. How do you decide which rooms or areas of your home to conquer first, though? Here are 5 ideas.

1. Start based on the supplies you have. Take stock of your plastic organizing bins and other supplies, and ask yourself which areas of your home you have the idea supplies to organize. Not having supplies can stop you from completing tasks, so you may as well do the projects you can complete based on what you already have. That way you won’t put off your tasks.

2. Start with the easiest tasks. Which project intimidates you the least? Do it. Organizing your home isn’t like doing your homework or projects for work. There is no reason to tackle the hardest project first, because you are not under the pressure of a serious deadline. Instead, do the projects you know you are likely to complete. That way you will motivate yourself with your accomplishments. Tasks that looked hard when you first started out may seem easier after you complete a few organizational projects.

3. Start with the most important projects. What would make the biggest difference in your day? An organized closet? An organized kitchen? What would free up the most time or space? What would make you feel happier or more relaxed? Try doing that task first. You may find that the improvement to your life frees up more of your energy and increases your motivation. If an organized kitchen frees up half an hour of your day every day, you will have that much more time to organize other areas of your home or relax. If an organized closet makes you feel more comfortable and at-home in your bedroom, it could have an overall positive effect on your state of well-being.

4. Ask someone else in your household to choose. This is applicable only if you have helpers of course, but if you do, it is as good as method as any for prioritizing tasks. Organizing with your spouse or kids? Ask them what would be easiest for them, or what would make the biggest difference for them. Let them motivate you.

When you have a huge list of organizational tasks you need to complete, it can be a real challenge trying to figure out what to do first. But the longer you sit on the fence, the more time you will waste, and the less you will accomplish. Choose one of these four methods of decision making, and pick something! It isn’t really all that important what it is, as long as it gets you started!