New Years PROJECT 2011

Since I don't generally make New Year's resolutions, I hate to post this, but this is one thing I've been wanting to work on, and figure, since I'm sitting here taking a small break from a major project that has everything to do with what I'll call my 'new years resolution' I'll do it. It has nothing to do with diet, exercise, food or smoking. lol.
I'm in the middle of a major cleaning and organizing frenzy in my bedroom. The room that always gets put last on the list, since it's mostly only slept in, and the door is shut when company arrives. lol. I hate that. I want a clean, organized bedroom.. and not just the bedroom, but all the rooms and my mind and everything!
I recently started working from home. Which I love! I tend to make the living room my daytime office, since I also watch my nephew as well. So I usually have my laptop, paperwork, pens, phones, notes, and everything taking up half the couch... which is ok at times.. BUT.. it's usually a total unorganized mess! Which I hate. I throw stuff here and there with no real system in place and then can't find what I'm looking for... 


So...
Step One: Get a good filing/work system.
Step Two: STICK TO IT!


Have I mentioned that I'm really good and the initial cleaning/organizing step.. just not so much with Step Two.. STICKING TO IT! I.. get.... lazy! lol.. can you believe that?! Me? Lazy?!.. lol. I think this is a bad habit I've had throughout my work career for sure. I can look back and recall many times I've done this over and over. 
This applies to the bedroom/laundry/bathroom/kitchen as well.. well, the kitchen not nearly so much, since I'm always in there, it's usually quite organized and clean... but we'll get back to that shortly.


So today, I figure the best way to start this New years Project, we'll call it, instead of resolution, since those are stupid.. Mine is a project..(probably an ongoing on for the rest of my life).. is to start in the worst room in the house. The LOOMING BEDROOM!.. 
First thing this morning I got on it. Moving stuff, cleaning stuff, getting rid of STUFF!.. I actually enjoy this more than I like to admit.. I'm a weirdo that enjoys cleaning. (and I get side-tracked easily)
Actually, I began a closet-getting-rid-of-stuff-project last week, so today is really a continuation of that. But either way.. I'm working and working today on putting things together that belong, getting rid of junk I haven't touched or used in a year or more (I hate to admit).. and watching this crap hit the Donation bag or the TRASH bag!


I think the key with the bedroom are just a few small things I need to get in the habit of.. that's the key to any resolution project working, is to do it long enough to make it become a habit.. that and of course making up your mind to do it! lol
SO.. 
1. Get up and make the bed... 
    I think this sets the tone for the day. I hate seeing a cluttered unmade bed all day. Plus I tend to be more prone to throw clothes all over the unmade bed and then they end up back and forth from the bed to the basket to the chair to the bed.. you know the routine.
2. PUT AWAY LAUNDRY. ASAP!
  This is huge to me. If I can get myself to put the clothes away that I've just washed, that's one thing, but my biggest problem is that when I change and rechange my outfit over and over, I throw those clothes all over, and start the mess all over. 
3. ALWAYS HAVE DIRTY LAUNDRY HAMPER AVAILABLE!
   This actually coincides with putting laundry away.. so that shouldn't be too hard to accomplish once I've gotten thru step 2. 


Well, that's the most of it for the bedroom.. of course there are other things I want to work on, like keeping my jewelry put away, and keeping everything dusted, blah blah.. but these 3 things are the makers and breakers of a mostly clean room that make me sooo much happier :)




I think the bedroom project can help me keep other things organized in life.. like work, and my craftroom.. but that's a project for a whole different day ;)


Thoughts..
Don't Put it off.. Do It NOW!