The 20/10 Organizing Method Will Save You Time And Stress, Keeping Your Home Clean On A Daily Basis
We’ve all heard of the “Sunday reset,” watching influencers with massive homes clean, organize, and prep their living spaces for the upcoming week.
But if we’re being honest, this isn’t the best technique for everybody. Think about it: by Tuesday or Wednesday, is your house already in disarray again, stacking up with unwashed dishes or baskets of unfolded laundry?
It might feel fine to put off these chores during the work week, pushing them back until your next Sunday reset. Yet, once the weekend rolls around again, you’ve only set yourself up for more overwhelm.
And quite frankly, it’s going to be a lot tougher to get everything done than if you’d just spread your chores out during the week.
Enter the 20/10 organizing method: my favorite way to avoid procrastination and easily incorporate cleaning into my daily routine.
The 20/10 Organizing Method
Author Rachel Hoffman first coined this term, which refers to a very manageable cleaning strategy.
Basically, you just have to set a timer for 20 minutes and get as much done as you can.
Of course, you aren’t going to be able to move mountains in only 20 minutes, but you can tackle the important stuff that makes your day-to-day life calmer and neater.
Maria Vitkovska – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
For instance, vacuum your living room, clean your work-from-home desk, wipe down your kitchen counters, or run a load of laundry.
Then, once the timer goes off, simply take a 10-minute break as a reward.
Repeating this process as much as you want will help divide your tasks into more digestible bite-sized pieces. Just pick one or a couple of chores to focus on during a 20-minute span, take a little rest afterward, and watch as your space is slowly cleaned up without too much stress or exhausted energy.
You will be amazed at how quickly your long list of chores gets completed, and the built-in break period will help reinforce this habit as positive and rewarding.
How Do You Find The Time?
Before you even begin thinking that you don’t have time for this organizing method in your schedule, think about how many hours you were spending completing Sunday resets.
You can actually reclaim your weekend with this technique!
The key is to find little pockets of time throughout your week where they would already make sense in your existing routine.
For instance, if you are an early bird who gets up hours before work to exercise, complete skincare, or read, then shift your mornings a bit. Perhaps you can shorten one of your morning habits to squeeze in one or two rotations of the 20/10 organizing method.
Or, if you’re more of an evening person, you can view this method as part of your “closing shift.” Before you get your nightly relaxation on, tidy your kitchen, prep your bathroom, or straighten up your bedroom to make getting ready for work the next morning easier.
Once you start looking, you’ll also be shocked at the short spans of free time you can find throughout your day – like after you toss dinner in the oven or while you scroll on TikTok at lunch.
Making Cleaning More Manageable
Anything in large volumes can be overwhelming, from appointments on our calendar to too many assignments at work or chores at home.
The key to managing it all is balance and thoughtful time management. With the 20/10 organizing method, you can say goodbye to long days spent cleaning and truly become in tune with a daily, gratifying cleaning routine that works for you.
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