If a genie showed up one day and asked you for one wish.  What would you ask for? The majority of people would say: give me more money. My friends, this is your magic day.  Although Maria’s is not a genie, we know that time is money. If you could convert your hourly wage to every activity you waste doing in your daily life. Plus invest all the money on a compound basis. You would definitely be a billionaire by now.

Why do I say this? I say it because some of us don’t get to recognize that the time we waste doing things that don’t contribute to us, is a waste of money.  Easy example. How much time did you take this season to find out where you put the gift wrapping paper? How much time did you take today to find your clean clothes? How much did you waste today to find the brown belt that will match your khakis? How much time did you waste today trying to find the bag that goes well with that gorgeous dress? How much time did you waste at the supermarket trying to figure out how much more rice and pasta to buy for the holiday dinner? How much time did you waste in the morning trying to find toothpaste you knew you had it?

This little bits of time wasted add up to hundreds of hours on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. You don’t notice it because you do it constantly. You always say to yourself, this is got to end. I gotta get my act in order.  You feel deprived, stressed, overwhelmed, depressed, exhausted, annoyed, lethargic, and broke. Gosh, I wish I could put it more elegantly. But it’s the truth. That’s exactly why we encourage you to take action and solve it once and for all.

What’s a 5S System? It’s a an organizational system based on Japanese management philosophy. The 5S stands for Sort, which is to keep what you use and eliminate what you don’t need. Straighten, which is to arrange and maintain all items in order. Shine, which refers to clean the area of your work. Standardize, which refers to establish a procedure to always keep the same ordered configuration. Last is Sustain, which refers to create an scheduling system to perpetuate the area of work in order over time.

Why should you adopt a 5S System? You should embrace it because it’s a system designed specifically to bring order to a chaotic life. You gain order in your thinking by recognizing what you need, and letting go what you don’t need or use. Because what you don’t need is actually taking up space in your in your closets, basements, attics, and every place in your home. A home without a thorough audit of what is useful and what is not will make you waste money. As you run out of space to store, your next step will be to rent an storage unit. This in return will create a monthly expense on your finances. That’s something you want to prevent. You want to empty all your closets, empty out your cabinets, empty out your pantries, so you can revise what you want to keep or eliminate.

How a cluttered unorganized home will take a toll on your emotional health? The desire to keep everything and evade elimination increases the level of uncertainty, anxiety, and depression. As you feel more attached to things, you will feel as if your happiness depends on it. Letting go, removing blocks, and eliminating unnecessary items will strengthen your attention and focus in life. You increase your awareness by removing what is no longer needed. It’s like removing a heavy burden off of our backs. As you clear out our closets, and keep only what’s needed, you start gaining control of your life.

How a cluttered unorganized home will drain your money? If you don’t know what you have at home, you’re more likely to double and triple buy the same exact item. When you run out of space, you’ll need to rent an storage unit. This in return creates a monthly expense for storing the unknown. You’ll also waste a heck of lot of time trying to find your items at home. When in fact you could be using this time to learn a new skill which will increase your valuation in the job market. You’ll miss important appointments, forget to pay things on time, which will in fact run you penalty fees. Again, wasting more money because there’s no order, organized system that can support your life activities.

How a cluttered unorganized home damage your social life? It makes you look always anxious, running everywhere, not having enough time. That creates a level of low confidence on others who look up to you as a reliable friend or co-worker. Because you waste too much time trying to find things at work or in your house, you lose this time to get together with friends and family. This in return hurts you because you lose the connection, engagement, and closeness to your peers. As humans start disconnecting, and becoming isolated, the levels of depression and anxiety increases. Why? Ut’s because their oxytocin (the love and bonding neurochemical) levels are out of whack. Oxytocin both influences and is influenced by depression. The brain secretes oxytocin in response to physical touch, when someone shows trust in you, and sometimes just in conversation or when around other people. The positive effects of upping oxytocin are most likely because oxytocin supports your brain’s serotonin, the feel good neurochemical. Many serotonin producing neurons also have oxytocin receptors; when oxytocin is released, serotonin gets a boost too. For more on this article by Debbie Hampton, Why Spending Time With Friends Boosts Your Oxytocin.

Why are we so nosy and go into every area in your home? It’s because we need to audit every single place, move the items you don’t want to move, and open the pandora boxes you’ve had for years. That’s why we’re so nosy and “have to” dig into every storage place in your home. So that we can show what you have, and allow you to take a moment to face your reality. Your current problem can be solved by first knowing it, and then taking immediate action to solve it. Postponing or deferring does not serve any cause, other than making the problem stay there forever.

How can we cure your current problem? We install a 5S system in your home. Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize and Sustain. Please note that we’re here to establish a new way of creating a sustainable system. Change is difficult, however, once you make it part of your life, it becomes automatic. You will do it by creating a new habit. We’re going to give you the map to create a new habit. Like every habit, it takes consistency. The best thing is that now you have a map, a guide, a compass to go with you. It just becomes part of you, and you’ll do it without even thinking about it.

How do we install a 5S system in your home?
1. We’ll remove all your items from inside your closets, under your beds, inside your pantries, kitchen cabinets, refrigerator, vanity cabinets, medicine cabinet, attic and basement. As a default, we’ll eliminate what’s expired, rotten, broken, or damaged upon your approval.

2. Then we’ll arrange all the items you use on a regular basis for easy access, and store the seasonal items in a separate location. So we’re going to have the shoes in the areas where the shoes go, sneakers next to the sneakers, the dressing shoes next to the dressing shoes and the casual shoes next to the casual shoes. If you have a bigger closet, we can actually do it casuals with the light color casuals, dark color casuals, dressing shoes, light color shoes, dark color shoes. We can get highly creative and make efficient use of the space you have right now.

3. Then we’ll clean the area where we’ll be placing all your organized items. We need to make sure that it’s clean before we can actually place these items into their proper area. We’ll vacuum the floor, hanging cobwebs, and wash the floors. All your items will be wiped clean before we can place them back.

4. Then we need to standardize it. We’ll establish a procedure so you can keep the same configuration. The way we do it is by putting labels on each section of your organized shelves, boxes, plastic containers, drawers, and every single area to fix its location. We’re going to make sure that every single area where you keep your shoes or your pants is actually properly labelled. We’ll be giving you a map with a preset configuration of your closet. This will help you during every cleaning session, anyone can easily spot which items are out of place. The reason we love to label them is because you want to have a hands off system that can show anyone how to keep it in order.

5. Lastly we need to establish a sustainable procedure. We’re going to sustain through a scheduling system that shows you how often you need to maintain it. At the same time, the schedule will show you what to do with items that are out of place.

This is why it’s a systematic sustainable approach to keeping your home not only clean, but organized the whole year. Now you have a map, a guide, a compass to guide you. A system that will increase your emotional strength. A system that will make you save money. A system that will allow you to connect more often with friends and family. A system that runs on its own, because anyone can take over it.

Now, you have the chance to get up in the morning fully empowered because you have gained control of your life back again. As you walk on your neatly clean floors and breeze through your room to make a hot cup of coffee. You smell the aroma of the coffee, and start planning all the extra activities you can do now. Turn on your phone, and check on new classes to take because now you have the extra time. You start living at your peak potential.

It’s time to make your life magnificent, commit to new beginning now! Take action and revamp your life by taking the first step. Speak to one of our client relationship agents at 845-624-6863. If you don’t like talking on the phone, chat online with one of our representatives. If you have no time to chat, send us your specs in this quote request here!

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