#tinytasktuesday

I’m not doing ‘new year new me’

But I am determined to continue that path of getting my life together, again, because it’s an ongoing project that really never ends.

I know many people are embarking on their own get it together year, and I just want to warn you that you will, and you will feel great, and you will get things done you never thought you could, then life will happen. It might be a flu, it might be a family emergency, it could be a work or school issue, and it isn’t always your direct issue but it will affect you. It will result in stacked up dishes and late deadlines and time at the car repair or any of a limitless number of things.

You may feel like you failed, but you didn’t. That’s life. It’s life for everyone. The point in getting things ready and staying on top of things is that when this thing happens you will be better able to juggle it all.

Everything you do today is one less thing to do tomorrow is wrong too. You will have to do the majority of things over and over and over. You can do all the dishes in the home on Monday and Monday evening and Tuesday morning people will eat and you will have to do them all over again. That also doesn’t mean you failed, it will take less time to do the new stack than doing all of them. You’ll run out of meals and order in, skip workouts, and have to clean the backlog again. That’ normal, it’s ok, and you are still doing great.

I thought that little things at a time was a good approach, focus on a thing, one area of life, one chore, something, and then move to the next when that has been conquered. That did not work for me at all! So now, I’m doing an all at once approach. I am addressing the things that bug me most about each part of my life all at the same time and it will all come together. However, I am still doing the small things approach. 5 minute tasks when I have that long, 2 minute tasks when I don’t, and lists of tiny things to do each day. They stack, they take so little time, and they make a huge difference when I’m at the end of the list.

I finished almost my entire list and extras, and now on this lovely Wednesday I have done very little else.

Friendly reminder that rest days and periods, actual rest not thinking of everything you didn’t do, is also productive and necessary. It gives you the focus and energy to finish your tasks quickly and efficiently.

I made a huge list of tiny things, each taking less than 2 minutes start to finish.

When people ask how I get so much done this is how. Each task is small enough to do quickly, even on the way to another room for something else. They add up so quickly though, each little thing adds to the larger results.

Today’s Tiny Tasks include: tie up the garbage bags so they can be taken out, take out the garbages, and replace the bags. One step at a time ! Unload the dishwasher then load it as we go. Fold the clean towels in the dryer (yup, I forgot them there yesterday, but they are clean and dry so still a win!). I will also tidy my bathroom counter, clean and charge my toothbrush, fill my clean water cup, and feed the pet.

There are probably 15 items on my list and I’ll add as I go, taking of things I can delegate. Creating at least one post and writing one for my other project is on my list, so I’m going to start by crossing this off.