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If you feel like you are living in a pigsty, you may be looking for the best home organizing tips. But while you are searching for free organizing ideas, have you taken the time to actually think about your organizing goals?

Far too many people start out on the journey of home organization without clearly established goals. They simply have the dream of living in an organized home. But what does that actually mean? One person’s organized room is another person’s cluttered mess. It is important to set your own personal standards.

Before you start looking for templates for organizing your life, you need to figure out what that means to you.

Why is it Important to Set Organizing Goals?

“But wait … do I even need a goal? Why can’t I just start tidying up?”

While that idea may sound a lot better than sitting on your hands, it probably won’t generate the results that you are hoping for. The problem is that it is just too nebulous to help you make any progress.

Here are some reasons why goal-setting is essential:

• You need some kind of a pathway to follow to success. Short-term goals are not just objectives—they are sign posts, markers along your way. Think of each short-term organizing goal as a stepping stone toward your long-term goals. If you don’t have that, you won’t be focused. You may try to tackle too many diverse projects at one time, and may get very little done on any of them as a result.

• Goals help you stay motivated. One of the hardest aspects of how to get organized at home is simply finding the energy and drive to stick with it! A lot of people resolve at the start of a new year that this is the year they will finally “get organized.” But since they do not bother to define a series of small, concrete goals, they never get a sense of achievement. This results in flagging motivation. If you set a lot of smaller goals on the path to a big one, you will get a sense of accomplishment with each step you take. This can motivate you to stay the course over the long months ahead.

Think back over your past attempts to get organized. If you didn’t have clearly defined goals, that might be why you didn’t make it very far. You are not going to get a sense of achievement if all you have is a distant dream of a perfectly organized home. You also will not have a roadmap to help you find your way.

So how can you create that roadmap and that sense of achievement? That will be the focus of my next article, How to Set Organizing Goals, Part 2: S.M.A.R.T. Goals. Also be sure to read onto Part 3 where I will provide you with even more useful tips and tricks. Once you set the right goals for your organizing projects, you will finally be on track for success!