Progress Update
Unfortunately, the Winter Olympics 2014 @ Sochi put a major
dent on my plans. It does not help when the prime events are in the morning.
Basically I was watching from morning to 2
PM and then take a nap.
Before you know it the day is over.
As I said in the last post ~ “The hard part is maintaining
it and not letting it slide back to the dark days. I have been working
hard to keep it that way.” To my disappointment, I didn't do that as a result the bathroom has gotten dirty again.
The problem was that I was letting the routine control me. It should be that the routines need to work
for you, not the other way around.
Routines can be comforting, help me avoid spending money unnecessarily,
and save me time when you need it most. So
I had to revise my routine and spread the regular tasks over several days as
oppose to trying to do everything in one day.
Cleaning Update
and Plan To Achieve It
Then I get an untimely letter from my condo Board of Directors
of inspecting my place on March 10th. I have received two warnings for two straight
years on my hoarding and cleanness issues.
Thus the new ABSOLUTE deadline is Sunday March 9 which gives me 11 days
to thoroughly clean out everything and make it organized as possible.
Thus I had to come up with the plan to complete my goal by
March 9th.
Feb 27 Morning – Clean the kitchen including fixing the
outlet;
Feb 27 Afternoon – Clean the bathroom;
Feb 27 Evening – Clean out the dining table
Feb 28 Morning / Afternoon – Clean living room pile
Feb 28 Evening - Start
cleaning out the hutch
Mar 1 – Continue cleaning out the hutch / coffee table / garbage
/ recycling
Next update will on March 1 evening on the progress of
cleaning.
Inspirations
I have been reading a lot of blogs especially “The Apartment
Therapy”. This was how I found out that
my favourite IKEA bookcase was gonna be phased out. It was on my list of products to buy after
cleaning out my place. So I went to IKEA
(it was ages since I was there) and got inspired by the cleanness and how
organized it was. Believe it or not, I
already have a vision as to how my condo should look.
Planning and visualization means nothing unless you do
something about it.
