Why Staying Organized is Essential to Your Routine

Organization is one of those topics where people either love it or hate it. But if you are 
someone who chooses not to focus on organizing the spaces in your home and work 
environment, you might be unintentionally hurting your own productivity and health in 
the long run. 

Here are some reasons why staying organized is essential to your daily routines.


You Get Cues From Your Environment

Your environment includes any space outside of your physical body, such as where you 
live or work. It can include your office, inside your home, your backyard, and your car. 
The environment where you spend your time has a much larger impact on your lifestyle 
and your routine than you might think. 

You often pick up cues from your environment, which then influences the choices you 
make. If you are working on a morning routine where you write in your dream journal 
upon waking, then setting out your journal on your nightstand with a pen is going to give 
you the cue to write in it when you wake up. But if it is hidden away in a drawer, you 
won’t even remember to use it most mornings.

Your environment should accommodate and support your goals when it comes to your 
routine, and that includes being more organized. If you have a messy home or office, 
you are going to feel messy in your head. 

If you are struggling with staying focused when you are working in your home office, 
then look around and figure out what might be messy or disorganized in your work 
environment. It might be stacks of mail or paperwork you need to go through, a lot of 
clutter on your desk and shelves, or even the way the room is set up. This all matters.


It Makes Your Habits Easy and Convenient

Organizing the different spaces in your home makes it as easy and convenient as 
possible to add new habits and create a routine that works for you. As you start to 
consider habits you want to add to your routine, think about ways you can adjust your 
environment to accommodate them.

For example, if you want to start a new habit of going to the gym in the morning, you 
need to have your workout gear organized and easy to find in the morning. Even if you 
don’t lay it out the night before, you at least should have your workout clothes, shoes, 
and anything else you bring to the gym in a space where it is easy to find.

Do you know what happens when you can’t find something you need for your habits? 
You skip them. This can soon become a pattern, shortly before you give up entirely 
because it feels too hard. When all you really needed was some planning and 
organization.


An Organized Space Helps to Increase Your Productivity

The less distracted you are when you are trying to get work done, the more productive 
you will be. Messy, chaotic, disorganized spaces are very distracting. Even if you keep 
the alerts on your phone turned off and don’t watch Netflix while you are working, you 
can still get distracted just from your own environment. 

The moer organized your space is, the more you will just focus on your work. Your mind 
isn’t constantly looking at your messy desk, or thinking about what you need to clean in 
your home. 

This also includes other areas of organization, like the digital files on your computer, the 
apps on your phone, and even the habits or routines you have each day. Organization 
isn’t just putting things in bins and boxes to keep it from being cluttered, but having a 
system where everything makes sense. 


It Reduces Stress and Anxiety

A big reason to be more organized if you are trying to adapt a healthy lifestyle with new 
daily routines is to reduce stress and anxiety. When you live in a chaotic space that is 
filled with clutter and you can never find what you need, it doesn’t just affect your 
productivity or focus, it can also hurt your mental health.

You might already be an anxious person, but it gets a lot worse when you are constantly 
stressed about not being able to find something or when you are surrounded by 
messes. 

Something as simple as not being able to find the book you were reading that is part of 
your nighttime routine can create a feeling of stress. Suddenly you get overwhelmed 
with frustration, and you just give up on your habits altogether. This happens a lot, and 
can be resolved just by focusing more on organization.
