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1. How to Get Rid of Chaos & Clutter
Chaos exists when disorder is allowed to persist.

2. Overview
1. Are You a Victim of Chaos?
2. What is Chaos?
3. What is Order?
4. The SSUM Approach to Getting Rid of
Chaos and Maintaining Order
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3. Is This You?
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4. Is This You?
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5. Is This You?
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6. If you answered yes or maybe then you
are a victim of chaos!
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7. What is Chaos?
Chaos is the absolute lack of order.
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8. Chaos is not natural.
Even waves crashing on the shore have
harmony even though it seems like chaotic
harmony.
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9. Chaos exists when disorder is allowed to
persist.
 Place a sheet of paper on a table where it
shouldn’t be and leave it there
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11. What is Order?
Order is doing what should be done
when it should be done.
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12. Order is when people and STUFF are
where they are supposed to be when
they are supposed to be there.
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13. Order is the absence of chaos.
If you have problems with order it is
guaranteed that you have problems with
time, money or both.
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14. Your Mission…
Your mission should you choose to accept it:
Achieve and maintain order
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15. The SSUM Approach
 Stop
 Seen
 Unseen
 Maintain
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16. The SSUM Approach: Stop
 Stop the activities promoting chaos
and causing disorder
 The goal here is to stop the insanity
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17. The SSUM Approach: Stop
 Don’t pile another dirty dish!
 Don’t leave another piece of clothing
on the floor!
 Don’t put another paper out of place!
STOP NOW
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18. The SSUM Approach: Seen
Give away, put
away or throw
away everything
that is Seen that is
out of order
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19. The SSUM Approach: Seen
 The goals here are…
 Quick gratification
 Free your mind of visual
clutter
 Free yourself from the
bondage of STUFF
 A clean healthy
atmosphere
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20. The SSUM Approach: Seen
Give away or throw away as much
STUFF as you can
If you haven’t used it in over a year then
it must go!
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21. The SSUM Approach: Seen
Even if you have to pile STUFF into
boxes, get rid of all visual evidences of
clutter
Don’t get bogged down with the little
things
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22. The SSUM Approach: Seen
Pretend that a VIP will be walking
through your house in a few moments
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23. The SSUM Approach: Seen
After you have removed every sign of
chaos then dust the furniture, sweep the
floors and vacuum the carpets
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24. The SSUM Approach: Unseen
Give away, put away or throw away
everything that is Unseen that is out of
order
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25. The SSUM Approach: Unseen
 The goals here are…
 Freeing your mind from mental clutter
 Maintaining a peace of mind
 Creating a clean and healthy
"everywhere"
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26. The SSUM Approach: Unseen
Now it’s time to go through the little
things
I recommend making a list of 100 things that
every member of the family will keep. Make a
list for your business and house as well.
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27. The SSUM Approach: Unseen
Even if you can’t live with 100 or less
personal things (and really you should be
able to), the exercise will help you
determine what is really important and
what is not
…yes a pair of socks counts as 1 item
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28. The SSUM Approach: Unseen
After you have removed every sign of
chaos in the Unseen places, dust the
furniture, sweep the floors and vacuum
the carpets
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29. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
Maintain the order
It would be really discouraging if you spent all this
time defeating chaos and creating order only to
have things go back to how they were or even get
worse
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30. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
Like money and time you need to tell
STUFF where it should go or it will settle
in the place of least resistance.
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31. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
Use containers to manage STUFF like
paper so that they are in the process of
being recycled, acted upon or filed.
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32. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
 Mail
 All new unopened mail
 To Do
 Things to get done
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33. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
 Bills
 Schedule payment
 Receipts
 Scan and store digitally, shred, recycle
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34. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
 To Read
 Things to read before shredding/recycling
or moving to “To Do” or “To File”
 To File
 File away once per week
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35. The SSUM Approach: Maintain
 Kids
 Put away once per week
 Stuff to put away
 Put away once per week
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36. Activity
 What are some of the areas in your life
where chaos is causing problems?
 What are you going to do about it starting
today?
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37. Summary
 Chaos exists when disorder is allowed
to persist
 Use the SSUM approach to get rid of
chaos and clutter while maintaining
order
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38. Summary
 If there is no order then you put your
money and time at risk
 Do what you can when you can and
when you can do what you can
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