I don't know how many times I've heard my dad utter the phrase "You've gotta be smart to be lazy," and I'm sure it took me awhile to catch onto what he meant as a kid. Basically, if you want to get something done, but you want to be lazy about it, you need to come up with a clever solution. Automate something, delegate to someone else, or just make the process less complicated.

This is key when you're thinking about your storage systems.

Okay, of course getting your life together isn't as easy as that title makes it sound, or you wouldn't be here looking for advice. But when we get down to the nitty-gritty, there really are only two basic steps to organizing anything.