emchik is loved. And it feels great!
I did actually clean my bathroom and kitchen yesterday, but it took forever because I was massively distracted by the Dead Like Me marathon on SciFi. But still—they’re clean, and I’m proud of myself for doing it.
Next is the big bad scary living room and the even bigger badder and scarier organization project I need to do.
csp0625 is at work
great start – remember that doing a little at a time is better than nothing at all.
Tink is sending Gemmword love and light.
As a veteran of the apartment cleaning and organization wars, I salute you.
I’m about 90% done on the visible stuff. And I promise you that I got most of the way there by taking the baby-est of baby steps.
Eventually, I did hit a point where things snowballed: a sort of “critical mass” of space and light and air that made continued decluttering considerably easier than it had been – even a source of fun and joy. (Not just in the results, either, but in the actual process.)
Next I get to tackle my final big, bad, and scary organization project: sorting through an estimated 75 to 100 bankers’ boxes of books and papers currently stored in an off-site unit. I expect to purge at least three-quarters of it, and perhaps as much as 90%.
I’ll be cheering you on!
New Isabella Clearing the deck...er, the kitchen counter, that is...
I just set a 43-T goal to clean my office for 1/2 hour, and I did it, and I marked the goal as done. It felt good, even though it was only a tiny baby step and I still need to keep on rockin’ on.
Tink is sending Gemmword love and light.
...than I managed at one go for many months.
For the longest time, I had to content myself with working in brief bursts lasting anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes.
Then for a while, I made progress by setting a 10-minute timer twice or three times a day.
Only after a steady regime of “training” those decluttering muscles did I manage to build them up to the point where I could work for 30, 60, or even 90 minutes. (And even then I took 5-minute breaks whenever I needed them.)
So once again, brava!
emchik is loved. And it feels great!
I really hope I reach that critical mass stage as well, and you give me hope for my scary big organization project. I’m not looking forward to tackling it, but perhaps when everything else is clean and tidy, I’ll want to do it—just so absolutely everything and every place in my apartment is sparklingly clean and beautiful.
New Isabella Clearing the deck...er, the kitchen counter, that is...
I’m afraid I haven’t made too much progress today. Let’s both not give up, though. Keep on rockin’ on!
emchik is loved. And it feels great!
Unfortunately, I haven’t made any progress on my cleaning since Monday because I’ve had a crazy busy week. And thanks in part to all the encouragement I’ve received here, I have managed to keep what I have cleaned so far tidy. I plan to move on to my messiest room, the living room, this weekend.
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Katherine wants to identify 100 things that make me happy.
change my top 8 to top 16
live in a cabin
graduate from college
make music
take guitar lessons
make something beautiful
Travel to Alaska
meet panic! at the disco
Taylor wants to Remember to take my vitamins
Read all of Shakespeare's plays
go on a three day juice fast
learn to speak another language fluently
not eat out for 1 month
go to cancun
figure out what to do with my life
make a film
dance like nobody's watching
ride a horse on the beach
be a better daughter
improve the world
buy a vacation home