30 Days to a More Organized Life, Day 25: Home Walkthrough
It’s too easy to become blind to your living environment – you spend so much time in it that after a while, you don’t really see it any more. If asked, you’d probably admit that there are many things in your home that you’d like to fix, update or replace, but you’d have a hard time bringing them to mind immediately.
Enter the home walkthrough.
Take your pocket notebook and step outside your home. Pause for a moment: the goal is to see your home with new eyes. When you re-enter, try to see the place as someone who has never been there before would see it.
Walk through your home, room by room, and ask yourself what is it about your physical environment that you’d like to change? What minor problems have been bothering you and you’d like to get fixed? Leaky sink? Squeaky door handle? Inconveniently placed items? Decorations you no longer like? Write them all down.
When it comes time to do your weekly review transfer those notes into projects and to-do items. If there is something that you don’t want to start now, put it on your ‘future me’ list. Then, as time goes on, you can work your way through these task and slowly improve your living space. You might also want to consider scheduling the home walkthrough on your calendar as an annual or bi-annual event.
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