Storm stays are a bonus day, you can lay around if that’s what you need. If not, let’s pick a room. What’s the function of this room? I am picking a hard one, because that is what I have left. Let’s say it is the kitchen. You cook, you eat there, maybe you visit with friends here too. Take everything on a flat surface to the table. Wipe all those flat surfaces clean. Wash, dry and put away any dishes that are dirty. Go to the table and return any items that have a spot on the counter. Anything left over? Do they belong in this room? If not put them where they belong.
Pretty easy, we are not done. Open the first cupboard, do not look at all the cupboards! Just pick one, how often do you use this stuff? Do you even know what’s in there? What about way up at the top? If you have not used it in a year, take it out. Put like things together, just the spices, just the snacks, just, well you get the picture. Now all those discarded items, put them on the table. Repeat with every cupboard and drawer. Just one at a time. Everything on the table goes. Into the back of your car, into a bag for someone you know, to the thrift shop, garbage.. bye bye. Wipe the table down and take a nap. You deserve it.
Don’t think about the big picture. Set a timer for ten minutes. Go do something else, then in an hour another ten minutes. We get overwhelmed with the picture in our mind, all of the stuff ahhhh! No, just one thing at a time. Ten minutes is the secret of ten. Anything big you can do for ten minutes, stop and do another ten later. Try it.
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