Posted by Last week I listened to Mel Robbins’ interview of Dana K. White and I was so motivated!
I started because it was one of those youtube recommendations that just automatically played. And then continued listening to it while walking the dogs.
I hadn’t been planning to do any cleaning or decluttering. I was getting ready to leave. I had people to meet up with.
But when I got home, I saw the pile of stuff on the kitchen island. That had been on the island for far too long. Instead of thinking, “I need to clean this kitchen,” I thought “take it there now” and “putting anything away will be progress.” Before I knew it, island was clean!
I’ve read/listened to Dana’s audiobooks before. I’m motivated every time I listen to them. I just don’t always want to start. But this was a great reminder that motivation should be done daily like brushing your teeth (pretty sure that’s someone’s quote that I’m paraphrasing).
While listening to the interview and then reading some of Dana’s earliest blog posts, I started thinking it’s not as much that I need her decluttering system (I do love it though! Especially her insight on containers), but the daily accountability journal. That’s what she did to start. No readers at first, but she kept a daily online journal for the home cleaning tasks.
It was the perfect solution for her. She wanted to write a blog and was using it to practice. Blogging isn’t really one of my priorities in spite of having one. I have many other projects that I want to tackle: coding an app, making a video series, helping animals, traveling the country and the world. And all the normal life tasks like work, clean home, home maintenance, exercising and social commitments.
I feel like I should be able to do all the things because I don’t have kids. Kids take so much time.
I do have fur babies though. And I likely spend more time on them than what people with tiny humans do – because they need to prioritize their human babies. So I make having pets more time consuming than I might otherwise – cook their food, daily long walks and weekend hikes.
But I still have a lot of free time. It’s 2pm on a Saturday and I haven’t done much with my day. I have at least cleaned bathrooms, done the dishes and picked up in the kitchen. And after some online shopping and almost buying a new dress, I decided not to. So that’s a win for finances and clutter.
I should have started “doing the things” hours ago. And I should be doing them now. But I want to try this. I want to try an accountability journal. Yes, I would rather have started getting things done earlier, but the day’s not over! It’s 2pm, not 9pm. I have 7 hours to do things and still get to bed early so I can wake up early and take the pups for an adventure before the storms.
I have many goals. One thing I’ve heard from folks on YouTube is that decluttering can help your entire life. It makes you feel better and lessens the maintenance load. So that’s what I’m doing next. Let’s go!
P.S. the interview: https://youtu.be/HdPeIk8R26o
P.P.S. Having pets is not nothing. Putting my sneakers on to get to work and my kitty appears purring loudly and head butting me. He wants something. And he can’t get it himself.
P.P.P.S. My coworkers are still trying to get home. All sorts of airline troubles for over 24 hours now. Grateful to be in my home and have the opportunity to make it better!
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