One of the most uncomfortable pieces of advice I ever received for accomplishing my goals was to share them.
Yes, sharing my home organization goals is uncomfortable for me.
However, when I do share my goals and my progress, I get more done.
So this year, I am sharing with you my home transformation goals.
I will keep you posted on my progress – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
And, I hope that you will be inspired to set your own home organization goals, and share your journey also.
Organizing My Home
As I’ve raised two children while maintaining my career, some things had to give. Usually it was the house.
We’ve gone through phases of more or less clutter, based on my kids’ ages and my energy levels – or should I say stress levels.
Over time, I have tackled areas in my home that have been prone to clutter.
I’ve accepted that some level of clutter will never go away completely, and every so often I need to go back and clean up and reorganize these areas of my home.
Some areas need to be taken care of more often than others. But overall, once I have organized an area in my home, it is a fairly easy process to clean it up again when it gets in disarray.
This year, I strongly feel the need to transform a couple of key spaces in my house — to reclaim these spaces in my home, and give them a new purpose.
Yes, my life is as hectic as ever, but transforming my house into the home I want to live in is increasingly important to me.
My Top 3 Home Transformation Goals For 2012
1. Transform my living room into a reading room.
We have a beautiful high ceilinged living room at the front of our house that is rarely used. It is the home for our musical instruments, overwintering plants, and unfinished projects.
In many homes, this room is the formal living room, a showpiece room. I never had such dreams for my living room, but at the same time felt constrained by its traditional use. So it mostly sat idle.
One day in December, as I was standing in the middle of the living room, wondering what to do with this underutilized space, I had an aha moment.
I’ve always wanted a beautiful comfortable space to hide away in – to read, relax, think — a reading room. And the living room would be the perfect space for my new reading room.
So the idea of the transformation was born. And I am really excited to turn this space into a room that us usable for me and my family.
2. Get the paperwork out of my bedroom.
When I first started buying rental properties, I did not have a designated space for the paperwork. The library in our house was a disaster area — cluttered and unusable.
A corner of my bedroom became my business space. And even though I now have a fully functioning home office, the files for the rental properties remain in my bedroom.
Although the files are organized, they are mainly sitting in boxes on the floor of my bedroom. Organized clutter? Hmmm.
The time is overdue to move the active files from my bedroom into my office, and boxes of files required for record keeping into the basement.
I want to rearrange some of the furniture in my bedroom, and clearing out this space will give me more options to play with.
3. Hold a garage sale jointly with my neighbor.
OK, this one’s not really a transformation, as much as it is part of an ongoing effort to get rid of stuff that is just cluttering up the house.
Last year, I held a garage sale (my first one), and sold a lot of kids stuff — toys, bikes, slides, kiddie pool. We also donated a mini-van full of toys to my kids’ old daycare.
And still, the house and basement are full of stuff. Stuff that I don’t use, the kids don’t use, and someone else would be thrilled to find at a low cost.
Although preparing for the garage sale was time consuming, this year we’re having another one.
By planning the garage sale jointly with my neighbor, it keeps us both on track to prep for the garage sale. And sale day is more fun!
And, if we time it correctly, we can also save the lives of excess volunteer plants in our gardens that would otherwise get weeded out and tossed.
Now it’s your turn.
If you haven’t done so already, set your home organization goals for this year. Doesn’t matter if they’re big or small.
What matters is that they will get you one step closer to having your home the way you want it.
Then share your goals.
If you don’t feel comfortable sharing your home organization goals with your family or friends, post them in the comments section of this blog post.
Just the act of sharing your goals will help solidify them for you.
And I’d love to hear about your home organization and successes throughout the year.
To your organizing success,
Barb
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