We organizers often ask clients to name their goals at the beginning of any project. We then put a plan together to help achieve those goals. The plan always includes creating the system to support how to arrive at the goal.

The systems would be created to accommodate their lifestyle and ideas would be introduced with the goal of being able to return to baseline with no more than a few minutes of their time each day. Home organizing systems are great, but maintenance of those systems is key to get from clutter to calm.