Nov 12
Holiday Stress Be Gone! Keys To A Better Holiday Season
Change and Transition, Goal Setting and Success, Grief: Death and Dying - End of Life Planning, Holiday Organizing All Year Round, Stress Management, Time and Money Management Add comments
Are your holidays going to be all you wished for this year?
Here’s one “secret” I want to share with you. They won’t . . . if all you’re doing is wishing!
Life doesn’t happen just because of our wishing and hoping. We have to do our part to intentionally create the holidays we want.
How do you do that?
I’m excited to tell you! Click here and get my free-call replay, “The 3 Secrets to a Stress-Free Holiday.”
Get helpful tips and ideas for a better, or much better holiday season starting now!
May 24th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Oh wow. A big project and good for you for taikng control of your life.First thing is to get the task framed up in your mind. This isn’t going to be a one-weekend project. It’ll likely take several weeks of steady going. Work on one room at a time start with the part of the house where you spend most of your time so you get to enjoy the benefits of your work right away.Second get firmly onboard with the idea that you’re not going to keep most of it. You’ll have five basic catagories:Recycle bundles of old magazines and newspapers, clothing that can be used as rags, recyclable plastic, recyclable metalTrash broken things, stuff that’s gotten wet or mildewed or mouse chewed, everything that’s been laying out in the weather that can’t be recycled. Don’t kid yourself that you’ll get around to gluing together the broken china it got broken 20 years ago, and it’s broken Get rid of projects’.Donate clothing/shoes/toys/household goods in very good condition that Goodwill or the Salvation Army would wantGift stuff that may have sentimental value to family members; anything they don’t want goes in the Donate catagory.Keep the smallest catagory: those things that you use regularly or want to see every dayYou’ll want to set up a way of keeping stuff separate as you organize it. Go ahead and rent a small dumpster. I know it’s hard. But a bin with a lid gets the discards out of sight (and out of mind).Get a pile of boxes just as if you were planning to move.Plan to haul out the Donate and Gift boxes as quickly as they fill. That will clear floor space.I acknowledge that going through 30 years of stuff is likely to be a journey through memories. Keep your task firmly in mind there’ll be time to savor the precious things you choose to have in your life when you can do it in the peace and calm of your newly tidy home.