Beginnings are scary...

Recently I painted the walls of my room. I am not finished yet but its a beginning. It feels like a clean slate. I finally feel like I am going to be able to start over.

I bought a book a few months back. Organize, Now! by Jennifer Ford Berry. It is a week-by-week guide to simplify your space and your life. I am trying to use it to figure out a path in life. I want to get to a place where I am confident and comfortable in my own skin and my own life. This book has some really interesting points in it. 

The first section looks at the basics of organization. Berry takes a look at clutter and ways to deal with clutter. She also goes into the psychology of clutter and ways to reduce the amount of clutter that you have in your house. She makes some good points about figuring out the functions of each room in your house and how to rethink spaces that maybe are not being used practically. 

Then Berry goes into the scary part of the book. The week by week planner. She starts off simple, or so I thought. Organize Your Mind. This is where I am right now. I am in week 1 of my, hopefully, life altering book. My goals this week?

1. Get a minimum of 7 hours of sleep per night.
2. Start my day by jotting down a short To Do list of everything to be accomplished that day.
3. Start a journal.
4. Limit the amount of TV watched.
5. Schedule a 2 minute break 2-3 times a day to spend time alone and just be.
6. Practice meditating.
7. Schedule time to exercise.
8. Schedule more "me time".
9. Eliminate energy drainers in my life: clutter, unhealthy relationships, unfinished projects, items on my To Do list that dont need to be done until other tasks are completed.
10. Take control of my time.

Sounds simple enough right? Well stay tuned to find out how well I am doing.