After your chores are assigned, consider arranging for yourself a reward to look ahead to as soon as your 30 Day Challenge ends successfully! Yes, having a decluttered house will be a reward in itself, certainly you’ve noticed that we give more effort to our work if we have something extra to gain from our efforts!
The final type of challenge is referred to as the 30 Day declutter Challenge, and the idea is that on each of the 30 days of the month you declutter one object or part of your home, large or small. The things can vary from the top shelf in your pantry cupboard to the toy bin in your son’s bedroom, from your junk drawer to the stationery collection that gets hidden in the home office closet. The secret is to be reasonable with your chore assignment. Writing “put photographs taken in the last 4 years into albums” almost certainly won’t be able to be accomplished in one day, but perhaps “separate
This category of Decluttering Challenge is a favorite. Commit yourself to decluttering (by selling, throwing out, or donating) 2010 things during the year 2010. Does that sound impossible? If you do the math though, it is really not as bad as it sounds. 2010 divided into 365 days is just 5.5 items per day. Look around you… the junk drawer, the cupboard under the stairs, your bedroom, the work shop… that doesn’ t seem unreasonable, does it? Record your success on your calendar, and watch the clutter disappear!
Once your chores have been assigned, think about giving yourself a reward to look ahead to when your 30 Day Challenge ends successfully! Yes, it will likely be rewarding enough to see your clutter-free house, you most likely know that we have a tendency to give more energy to our work if we have something tangible to get from our efforts!
Perhaps you will need to scale back and go with a One Week Bedroom Decluttering Challenge, or a One Week Basement declutter Challenge. Don’t let that bother you! Commit yourself to decluttering for 7 days (and seriously, what is seven days in the grand scheme of life), and you will without a doubt bring order back to at least part of your cluttered house!
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