Getting my house in order

[cjsmith]

Lent reminds non-Catholic me of the powerful idea of making a change for a finite period of time. Hat tip to mactavish for mentioning the idea of taking on a discipline.

Thirty minutes per day on any of (or any combination of) the following tasks:

• House cleanup (doing dishes, putting books and papers and clothes away, what the cat did, fridge purge)
• Organization (finding places for things, filing papers properly, getting photos into albums)
• Financial organization (set up a 2005 Roth IRA, do 2005 taxes, update my will, Quicken, etc)
• Online organization (get rid of the old e-mail address!)
• Decluttering (papers, clothing, kitchen junk, the garage, jigsaw puzzles)
• Minor improvements (replanting flowers, finishing the printer table, finishing a shirt I'm making)

By the end of this I'll know which of these tasks I use to put off others. I suspect I'll also have a place that's halfway nice to live in.

Comments

Inspired & motivated, now!

[nurvuslee.livejournal.com]

I think I might do what you just did ... list all of the things that need to be done and spend a certain amount of time doing *at least* something from that list EACH DAY! Thanks for the idea, CJ!

Re: Inspired & motivated, now!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! Thank mactavish; she inspired me. :-)

Now I hope I get to the long-term stuff and don't spend ALL the time on bullet point one.