7 ways in 7 days to be happy - Day 2

As you can see from the tip listed on Day 1, I am not going to provide suggestions that I do not practice myself and I will try to provide examples of how I use these strategies in my own life so you can see how easy it is to do. This brings me to the tip for Day 2, which is to get yourself organized. If you are anything like me, you have sources of stress all around you but you may not realize how much it is affecting your life because you are just so darn used to it. Let's take the most common example of this -- clutter. Look around you right now, is your desk at work or the room where you are reading this cluttered. Do your drawers look like a hurricane just came through it. If so, this is adding to your stress level and making you less happy than you can be.

So the solution would seem simple, right? Clean up the clutter. Not so simple you say. You don't have the time, right? I used to think the same thing myself, but then I realized that this was just an excuse because whenever I set myself to clean up the clutter it took far less time than I thought it would. What you need to do is find some time at least once a week that you designate to clean up some of the clutter in your life. If it is a very large task, you don't need to do all of it at once. Just do a chunk of it at least once a week and don't add to the clutter in the interim.

Tonight, my example of following this advice was cleaning up the very home office room where I am typing this blog posting. When I walked in this room tonight there were books all the over the floor that my kids through all over the place, toys tossed all about, and clutter on my desk. I put 10 minutes aside, put on some music, and cleaned up the clutter. What you will find is that once you get yourself started on these types of tasks that you will be motivated to do a little bit more. Proof in point was that I cleaned out a drawer in my office that had been cluttered for 2 years. When I walked into the room later on this evening, it had such a different, stress-free feel to it, and now I much happier, and smiling like Peppermint Patti. Go here for Day 3.