One of the points of doing a monthly challenge is to make my life better. My previous challenges have been aimed at my physical body with exercise and better eating. This month I am expanding a bit: I am making my mornings less stressful by resetting the common areas of my house in the evening.
Why
I have noticed that mess attracts mess. If there is a dish soaking in the sink, dirty dishes will go into the sink even though the dishwasher is ready to accept them. When one afghan is crumpled on the couch, all the rest of them end up on the floor. When one piece of mail is left on the table, we soon have a pile of junk there.
How I Will Do This
My April challenge is to do a common area reset during the time that I am making my coffee. This means the fur repellent blankets are put back to cover the couch and loveseat, the blankets folded and put on the back where they belong, the kitchen island wiped down and all dirty dishes are in the kitchen (hopefully in the dishwasher but also possibly rinsed and stacked neatly in the sink)
The Reward
What this gives me is a less stressful morning. I don’t have to clean counters to make breakfast. I can sit on the couch to do my morning pages without having to straighten anything. The fur doesn’t collect as much on the furniture because they are more consistently covered.
An investment of at most 10 minutes to start my morning on a better foot.
