You know—especially if you have a big house packed with a lot of stuff—that downsizing is gonna be a big job.
You might even be terrified that once you start, your house will look like a disaster zone and you’ll never figure out how to finish.
So try this instead: get started in just 10 minute clips. You can handle 10 minutes, right?
Pick a daily time slot (so you stick to it and it’s an easy lift) or better still stack it on something else you do anyway, like working on a kitchen drawer while boiling pasta for dinner.
Start with something very small that won’t make you hyperventilate—and just might make you click-your-heels happy when you clear the space:
Attack the kitchen junk drawer…and then the silverware drawer, the pots and pans collection, the spice containers, maybe even the water bottle pile.
Take a stack of paperwork to review and toss, maybe while you’re watching TV or a movie (setting aside anything sentimental for later).
Grab a bag and go on a 10-minute walkabout for outdated electronics, cords and adapters (your local Best Buy will recycle them for you if not your town recycling center).
Open the bathroom closet and grab every stained, tatty, faded or sad towel and drop them in a bag for your local animal shelter. Bonus points for adding anything you’re just not feeling anymore, even if it’s still perfectly good.
Are these big strategic downsizing moves? Nope. But they WILL get you revved up to do more when you see how much momentum just a few minutes consistently can deliver.
They’ll get you declaring your vision for how your space, your days, your life will feel when you’re done.
And they’ll get you ready to tackle the big jobs: that garage suddenly won’t look quite so scary anymore 😉.
