Miniature Disasters and Minor Victories

Life is made up of these. Little things that fall apart around you and small events that make you feel empowered.

I have had a struggle my entire adult life. I LOVE clean, organized and streamlined simplicity. However, I don't MIND disorder and dishes left over night (unlike my husband) I lack the Healthy OCD gene that organized people seem to have.

Over the past 3 1/2 years in our apartment I have not harnessed control over my organization. I go through cycles.....one day I am inspired and I organize ALL the kids toys into little bags in the boxes and hide them away....hours and hours of work...that gets destroyed in less then 30 seconds. My Minor victory turned into a miniature disaster. I am so burnt out from my rampage that I just can not face the toys that have taken over my living room for another 3 months. By that time more toys have found their way into my living room and I get so frustrated I purge again and the cycle continues.

Every single corner of my home and life needs a little attention. If I left everything go as it is I would be fine. My kids would go to school, my sheets would be clean, my food would taste good and my home would be generally acceptable to the greater community. But I don't want "acceptable" I want easy, I want simple, I want ease. However I learned something. You cant just do it all in one day and keep it that way. There is CONSTANT maintenance that goes into something like this. Everyday you need to clean and organize and do up keep. The very IDEA of that is just so overwhelming that I think about it and run and hide under the covers of my bed that has sheets that are kept in a disorganized closet in my front hall.

So I decided that this can not be how life is, life can go on and things can be accomplished I just need to find the right way for ME to do it. I know I am good at using space, I know I am a creative organizer, but I lack the drive to do the up keep. But up keep is hard. I lack the energy and the drive to do it. So I came up with an idea......

If I set myself a SMALL goal everyday, something that takes no more then ten maybe fifteen min to do I will not only feel good about what I have done but would be working toward a more peaceful existence and a happier life. So thats what I am doing!

On the side somewhere I am going to embed the link to my Goals Calender. There will be a description of the goal of the day in each event so you can see what "shoe project" means (or whatever code I give a project)

Right now I am just sharing this project with my close friends and people who I think will be inspirered by this. Daniel thinks I am being insanely narcissistic about this, but I think I am just doing what I need to do to be motivated. I did my first project last night (I will update on that later) and I was so close to saying "oh this is just to much work, I can't" but in reality it took me like 10 min and I was so energized and happy when I was done.

If you are inspirered to do something because of this, let me know! post it! We can all get over the miniature disasters in our lives by conquering them with Minor Victories along the way!