What Is the 1% Rule And How Can It Help You Maintain A Peaceful Home?
Ever wonder what the secret is to long-term success and not just big wins?
The 1% Rule is the key to making progress in any area of your life, and especially when it comes to decluttering and maintaining a tidy home!
By the end of the post, you’ll understand what the 1% is and how to use it to make progress decluttering and simplifying your home…
What Is the 1% Rule And How Can It Help You Maintain A Peaceful Home?
What Is The 1% Rule?
The idea behind the 1% Rule is simple:
Getting a little bit better each day can not only result in compounding growth, but can also help you develop lasting habits that turn into lasting results.
Popularized in the Bestselling book Atomic Habits by James Clear, the 1% rule teaches that normally we think big efforts lead to lasting results, when really, over time, small consistent efforts yield massive long-term payoffs.
When it comes to decluttering, here are some ways to utilize this rule:
- Instead of thinking about decluttering an entire room, simply declutter a few things daily from that room and overtime your progress will be significantly greater than one large decluttering session one day and nothing for the next 3 months.
- Doing the easy, little things first in a living space: clearing away trash, clothes, papers, and putting these things where they’re supposed to go (trash bin, hamper/drawer, office/filing cabinet/shredder).
Decluttering Your Home With The 1% Rule
When it comes to decluttering, the 1% rule helps you build momentum and get you into the flow…
It’s not about fast results, but small, steady, consistent efforts that ultimately help you reach your goal without burnout.
Here are some practical ways to keep your home decluttered and tidy with the 1% rule:
- Target “tiny” messes
- Focus on smaller zones in your home: Think not a room, but a closet; if not a closet, a zone in your closet. Keep breaking things down to make them repeatable and easy, so they feel doable.
- Relocate stray items daily
- Place pillows and blankets back into place after each evening
- Cleaning an area after use, like your living room or kitchen
Why The 1% Rule Works
This rule works because it fits in naturally with the way we’re wired…
Our brains don’t learn new things or habits overnight!
Even though we think that big efforts contribute the most to success, it’s actually the small things that we do each day that develop into long-term habits.
The 1% Rule states that after a year we get 37 times better at whatever we look to achieve!
This means consistent progress compounds over time and transforms you and the goals you want to achieve…
Check out this video to explain in more detail why the 1% rule is so game-changing:
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