Organization 101

I've been thinking about the whole organizational topic for awhile now. I am definitely NO WHERE NEAR as organized as I'd like to be. Or for that matter, need to be. I often find myself getting overwhelmed when I start to think about routines, schedules, weeding through junk, cleaning, etc. Not necessarily because I can't do these things, I know that I can (and I can be pretty darn good at it, if I may say so), but the overwhelming feeling comes from not knowing where to start. Or from seeing a starting point, but also seeing the mountain that needs to be climbed after that initial starting point.

I know that I need to do something about becoming more organized in my life. When I do follow some sort of routine, or when my house is cleaner I just feel better. Both about myself (that I'm actually doing it) and I feel less stressed. Now I know that some people might read this and say, why on earth would a homemaker get stressed? Don't you stay home all day, everyday? And to you I would say that trying to keep a household running in tip top shape can be stressful at times. And add to that the fact that I do have a part-time job, plus we are down to one vehicle at the moment. Anyways, enough with that rabbit trail. Another thought that kind of freaks me out, is that now that Audrey is approaching 2 years old we're talking more and more about starting to expand our family, and the thought of having to do all that I do (without the organization) while having a toddler and an infant scares the living daylights out of me!!

I didn't want to do this as a "New Year's Resolution", because I feel like that would be setting myself up for a quick failure. I never seem to thrive when it comes to making resolutions at the beginning of a year. Also, I know that one of my other problems is my 'all or nothing' mentality(I suffer from this in several areas of my life). I think a lot about what the end product should be and I try to do that from day one, thus setting myself up to completely burn out and get totally unmotivated for awhile until the memory of my failure has been erased from my brain.

So, I'm going to come up with a plan to slowly, but surely get myself organized. I figure since I'm on a roll with my whole new eating plan, I might as well put some of that determination into another area of my life. One of the first ways that I am going to do this is by following Crystal from Biblical Womanhood's lead. In December she did a series for a couple of weeks called Making Your Home a Haven. Now she is keeping up with this by doing a Making Your Home a Haven post every Monday. So starting next Monday I'm going to join in on the fun!!

I'm also going to sit down (tonight or tomorrow) and think long and hard about what I would like to accomplish in this arena. And then actually plan out the steps that I need to take to fulfill this desire. Wish me luck and look for more posts on this topic coming soon.