Dear Kayla,
As I said in my last post, organizing physical space was a lesser priority for a long time. I am working on it now myself. I will share what I have learned thus far.
Organizing physical space is different from organizing your time or your diet or other aspects. When you are organizing your time or diet, you are best off looking closely at what you are doing now and finding small ways to make things better and better. The more you can incorporate those steps into your daily life the more likely you will be to stick with them. Over time, you can build on what you have already done and eventually add more steps.
Organizing physical space is different. The first step to organizing your physical space is: Throw things out. The first and most critical piece is figuring out what you need to keep and what you can throw out. Take a close look at your space and decide what you can afford to throw out. That is more difficult than it sounds but absolutely crucial. If you decide to keep something, you will have a better sense of why you need it and where to place it.
Don't worry about that last part of now. Just find things which you can throw out.
One thing that might help you (it helped me) is to start by organizing your computer desktop or e-mail inbox. Obviously, this would not change the appearance of your living space, but it is the same basic principle (and much easier to do). I found it to be good practice to learning how to organize other more obvious areas.
Good luck.
