Merry Christmas!

Of course, my very favorite would be to clean out the garage and use that, but I don’t see that happening any time soon around here.

I almost always have a little bit of everything.Sometimes I’ll focus for an hour on getting a whole bunch of little “blog work” things done that have been bugging me, but in one list of 10-minute tasks, I could do some quick trim-painting in whatever room we’re working on, some planning for whatever holiday is coming up, some online shopping, some regular cleaning tasks, and some organizing and decluttering, and some blog work too.

Having a little bit of everything in there really helps me feel like I’m making a little bit of visible progress on all of my goals every day and it keeps me from feeling bored.Speaking of which, on to the next tip!.Setting a few goals for yourself and then challenging yourself to complete them really kind of is a little game in itself, but if you do things exactly the same way and in the same order every day, things get tedious.

And then you get bored.And then you get slow and sloppy and distracted.

I like to play little mini games with all of my tasks throughout the day to keep myself on my toes and to make things feel a little more fun and challenging.

Sometimes it’s writing all of the jobs down on little pieces of paper and pulling a new job out of a jar every 5 minutes, sometimes it’s folding 10 pieces of clothing in between each mini task of the day, sometimes it’s trying to do 37 30-second jobs all in a row.Creating custom built-ins allows you to really make use of every inch of usable space.

You’ll be amazed at how much more you can fit when you fill an.wall with shelves..

I had it in my mind that I was going to really go all out and buy all kinds of trendy decor for this shelf to make it look really amazing.In the end though, I decided it was already pretty amazing, so as far as decor goes, I kept it pretty simple..