Organize Your Home
It is the Fall Season and we are quickly running out of time before the Holidays. Is your home organized enough to get you through? I don’t mean where you can find everything you need at all times, but is your home relaxing? Can you come home at night and not worry about the next couple of months? Have you kept up with your promises of paper filing? Have you dealt with each magazine and either scanned in your info to keep or tore it from the magazine and filed it away?
These questions won’t keep you up at night. What will keep you up at night is the sick feeling in your stomach that goes back to the thoughts in your head “The Holidays are coming and I can’t possibly have any one over”.
Why is it like this? I know you ask this same question every year. I know that every year you somehow make it through, and, you PROMISE yourself that ‘next year’ it will be different. I am not so different.
I am a perfectionist. I can say it with sound conviction. You may think, then, that my house is easily in order and that everything is perfect! Well, I can tell you that being a perfectionist is harder than you may think. I have the uncanny ability to say “Well, I don’t have time to organize the whole room, therefore, I won’t clean any of it”. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I like to have everything in perfect order, or, it really doesn’t matter to me. That may be a little untrue, but, I do have a problem with small chunks of home organizing.
My best advice for getting things done – for those like me – is a timer! Lists don’t help me near as much as a timer. An old fashioned egg timer or a fancy watch that beeps – it’s all the same and it is deeply warranted at my house. Just setting it for 15 minutes at a time is a life saver. You can do anything for 15 minutes, can’t you?