The 5s Methodology
infinithoughts|April 2019 - DARE to start again

Here's a method to unclutter your life… and your mind if you can apply it to your life.

Yogeshwari S
The 5s Methodology

Do you face the following problems either in your office or in your house?

Searching for frequently used items like pens, watches, important papers, documents, ID cards, keys, remote controls, etc.?

Are you living in a cluttered, suffocating ambience with tons of things scattered around you?

If your answer is YES to even one question, then this article is for you.

There is a simple method called 5S, initiated by Takasi Osada from Japan. Though most of these methods were practiced in our country, we did not pass these methods on to our successors nor did we document them, wherein the Japanese have done it so meticulously.

5S as the name implies is 5 words starting with the letter ‘S’ in Japanese.

SEIRI - Reorganising:

Just imagine our stores or our table or our handbag or wallet – do we have items that we want, or unwanted items or both? Chances are that it will be the last answer since we have everything mixed together.

Shall we try to separate the wanted and unwanted items? Unwanted items are to be moved to a separate place called the RED TAG AREA and to be segregated as under:

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