embrace the usefulness of labels labels make your life and home a better happier place resolving to sort things out is commendable but if you stick things in boxes without labelling them you might forget where your organised things are supposed to go trust us on this one even people with the best memories can forget things when they re doing a lot at once labels help you remember the minutiae so you can focus on the larger job at hand establish new routines making small organisational tasks into routines makes them feel less like roadblocks and more like regular parts of life these routines can be as simple or involved as you want them to be you could start by deciding you re just going to make your bed every morning work your way up to more ambitious and beneficial routines or don t good habits lead to a more productive lifestyle and a more productive lifestyle leads to greater personal satisfaction create an organisation calendar writing things out in a simple calendar can help you stick to your newfound goals