Simple minded

I think the birds outside my window today knew a little more about the weather than Kathy Sabine.


I sat down yesterday and decided to strategize this whole simplicity thing. I was writing all my goals, how I could schedule out my day, what to accomplish when, how to be done in less than 4 months with everything, and so on. I almost blew my own mind, not in a good way. So much for simplicity. I was trying to convince myself that complicated was the way to go. I was trying to convince myself that I needed a "system" or a "program" to stick to, that I couldn't figure out how to simplify my surroundings on my own.

So there I sat, overwhelmed. If I went through and organized/purged a specific area of my house every week it would take me four months to get it all finished. That was daunting to me. It nearly paralyzed me. That's what happens, I get overwhelmed, and then I stop. It's like I can't move forward.

Then I remembered Jared telling me to take "Baby Steps" (you know, What About Bob?). So here are my baby step goals:

1. Go through and do a general clean up before I leave the house (baby steps clean up the house, baby steps do a load of wash).


2. Declutter/organize at least one thing a day (baby steps go through the junk drawer, baby steps throw away the fast food catsup packages your crazy husband keeps "just in case").

That's it for now and I'm feeling pretty good about it.