GardenerJoy:

Sounds like some good thought is going into a new way of accessing and storing information. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts thru this forum. It gives me some ideas for my office area.

Hope you find the right solution and continue to challenge what is not working anymore.

Hi all, you are all doing so great. I am very busy with work. I usually work a few days a week but have now been working much more. I think they need to hire more people. I find I am not getting time to get organized. Maybe a bit of an excuse. I want to spend time with my son once I get home. I need to find a balance here.
Have a great night.
Ann

DH is having a hard day. While he rested on the couch this morning I started to sort through my cookbook collection. I want to make room for some new material more pertinent to our current and healthier way of eating. Upon first glance, I felt I wanted to keep them all. After I put the first one in my purge spot many others came much easier. I even found I had two of a certain reference book. I kept the newer one. I think I have 11 or 12 books ready for a new life somewhere else. credit.

gardenerjoy, your comment regarding the files not applying so much to your current lifestyle was what helped me to move to my cookbook collection. Thx.

ETA-22 books!:cp:

Good Morning Declutters/Organizing Spacers,

Finished the task of cleaning and scrubbing out both refrigerators. Can you just say gross. When I decide to do it, it usually is long overdue.

Filled a 5 gallon trash can of "I think I will keep it, It might have some use some day stuff." Trash day today and it feels a lot lighter around here.

I am still thinking on my car as rain is coming in Thursday and Friday. I have 2 all day work projects and will be gone both days.
Planning on maintaining the rest of the week and I will have to see what new projects this weekend may bring.

Yesterday as I was heading out the door to go to work, I took a magic marker and wrote on a piece of paper;

"Making space to live the life I want to live as a thin person."

It was a feeling at the moment about why I am putting continual effort into my present time space to declutter/organize/maintain.

I finally registered my VitaMix which I bought on May 9 and also acknowledged that;

"Procrastination is a part of my clutter/organizational issue".

I took baby steps again today.
~broken weed whacker out of basement and into back of car
~inflated tires on for sale bike and rode good bike to the store for "for sale" sign.
~brought styro-cooler out of basement

Tomorrow the carpet lady is coming to measure for carpet. I could have done that months ago. (procrastination) I stopped at the paint store to get color swatches and am going to really try to push through and finish this project, left hanging since I refinished the downstairs floor in March??

I will commit to moving out cookbooks, bike and cooler tomorrow.

I sorted through a file box of house files, making room to move yard files from the messy file cart into the neater file box.

Today:
~weed eater made it to the repair place
~cookbooks and one other large item made it to the thrift store

I finally ordered my carpet for the living room. It's been months...I knew it would be $$ months ago. It was a procrastination issue. Done.

Way to go Lexxiss! Love your new mantra! Inspiring to shift the focus to new clear--clean space.....Yah for decisions and follow thru.

overwhelmed
 

Hi

My dishes have been sitting in soapy water for 12hrs. not sure what happened but i intended to wash them this morning. now I have the original plus todays dishes.

I find this completely demoralizing, but I am under some stress today/tonight with a visit to ottawa looming in the morning. I don't have a lot of personal reserves or resources at my fingertips tonight.

My hope is that when I get back I can re-start.

I love reading about all the progress here. It reminds me that I can do it too.

Bye for now.

onebyone, safe travels. :hug: You WILL get back on track...Beck teaches you that. Just like w/your food plan...let go of demoralizing feelings and look ahead. You can and will do it.

Me, a busy work day but found a few minutes to myself in the upstairs office.
I got rid of a "pending" file that had been sitting for months. I have a new free space. I also went through my to do pile...paid some bills and deleted some of my online payees I'll never need again. Looked around and pitched a few items that I (or anyone else) will never ever use. credit for baby steps.

Hello,
A quick check in as I am off to work. I want to thank you all for the great posts. They inspire me. I have not had dishes in my sink since this thread inspired me to get them done before I go to bed. I think I am a procrastinator so setting rules about dishes has worked so far. Now to try and incorporate other helpful habits.
Have a great day all.
Take Care
Ann

Hi everyone!

I got off my task list with the event of the new grandchild. It's time to get back on the boat here. I think I need to reevaluate and make a new list. My new focus is preparation for carpet installation.

I've maintained my space the past few days which feels great.

Checking in to get back on track as well.

Have to clean my house today before I can even start with what additional projects are needed to chunk away at the extras. This will be a great start and then I can concentrate on additional rooms/problem areas.

Will check back tomorrow with an exhale and hopefully a new plan for this week. A/C went out and new one was installed yesterday. Grateful for that as the temp is going to be 103!

I've managed tiny baby steps three days in a row. Guess what? Even tiny baby steps make a very visible difference when done consistently!

It looks like slow and steady finishes the race. It may not win it but each step will lead to finishing it.

I am picking one room to work on. I have files from a class that I facilitate. I am in need of filing the lesson plans, gathering the projects that go with it and keeping all the reference books in one place.

My vision is to have each file box organized with :

--labeled file folders
--reference books in box
--activations and instructions included
--contents taped to the box

I will start today and allow myself to finish at least 2 boxes. I am thinking that 14 boxes will be included in the finished product.

I am not stuck in doing this, I am going to take one thing at a time, one day at a time.

Will report back later on the action taken or not taken. My value is to have things in a place with a home and labeled so when I need them I won't have to sort thru the big file box they are in. Sort, Organize, Label and Finding a home.
That is my vision.