Closet Cleanse Challenge BONUS Day 5 : Showing up Boldly & Keeping It Up
Wow! What an incredible week! THANK YOU for joining us and for sharing all of your questions and successes! We love celebrating together!
Our ultimate goal for you is that you finish your project and can report back in a year, “I organized my home and it STAYED organized!”
So we’re adding one last BONUS DAY!
The final step is to establish healthy habits to ensure long-term sustainability of the systems you’ve created. Practice makes permanent. Routines reduce stress and ensure you’re able to accomplish your goals. They also support creativity and eliminate the decision fatigue that causes so many of us to give in and compromise at the end of a long day.
Your self-confidence is your thoughts about you and your thoughts about who you believe you are are always being reflected back to you. You are essentially the story you tell yourself about yourself. We often hold onto old stories or unquestioned beliefs without realizing how they are affecting and creating our lives.
What stories feel true about who you are? (Example: I’m not good with money. I’m not capable of creating the business I want. I’ve never been good at….)
Write them all down. If you are the story you tell yourself about yourself.
What’s the story you’d like to tell?
Creating a new story about who you are just takes putting new thoughts on repeat! This is the secret to creating new beliefs. You get to decide the story you want to tell you don’t have to let past programming, your parents or culture decide. You can decide!
Having daily, weekly and monthly routines will allow you the ownership over your space and your time.
Our ultimate goal for you is that you finish your project and can report back in a year, “I organized my home and it STAYED organized!”
As you are building your routines look for ways to build them into your daily rhythm. For example, as you put away laundry notice items that are never touched and determine if they need to go into the donate bin right then and there.
Below are a few routines we share with clients. Consider these and then add some of your own. Feel free to print this out and keep it near by until it becomes second nature.
The Three A’s
As time goes by, your needs will evolve. Work hours may shift, new seasons will bring new opportunities, children will grow more independent and different priorities will emerge.
The routines you’ve started today will at some point need to change.
This process can be embraced with the Three A’s:
Habits we Adopt
Habits we Adjust
Habits we Abandon
The beauty of the Three A’s is that they foster flexibility, enabling your routines to evolve rather than collapse. We often find that a failed routine only needs a few tweaks to make it more successful. It could be as simple as changing your mindset to view a certain habit as an act of self-care, utilizing organizational product to support a system, scheduling your routine in your planner and writing it down, creating a reward system (it works for kids and adults!) or changing up the time of day the routine is taking place.
As you shift your mindset to embrace the new and allow for change, you will move to a position of management rather than reaction.
Add to your list of habits a quarterly assessment to give yourself the time to examine and adjust your routines as needed.
We’re proud of you and hope you feel equipped to step into the world (in person or virtually!) with complete confidence in yourself.
Thank you for spending this week with us! We’re so grateful for every single question and engagement!
We’d love to hear from you and see your before and afters, help troubleshoot any challenges and, most importantly, celebrate with you your organizational successes!
With so much love, Christina, Rebecka & Kylie
