April Theme: Visionary Spring Cleaning and Home Organization

This month on Visionary Womanhood we will be focusing on spring cleaning and home organization. Some Wemmicks really love this stuff. Others, not so much.

Some readers will be cheering and taking copious notes; totally energized and ready to tackle their homes. Others will groan and press the delete key in hopes of also miraculously deleting the piles of dust and junk accumulating into the far corners of their homes.

Ah. If only it were that simple.

Well, actually it is. All you need is a little motivation, and that’s what this month is really all about.

I’m going to kick off this month by sharing my two biggest tips for accomplishing virtually anything whether it’s finishing a photo album, cleaning your home, teaching your kids, or starting a business.

1. Have a plan.

2. Work the plan just a little bit each day.

I know. Profound. And it’s dirt cheap too. Supplies needed are paper, pen, your imagination, and some old fashioned elbow grease.

What is it you want to accomplish? Write it down. Everything.

Now break it up into bite sized pieces. If you feel like you have 30 minutes of extra down time each day, consider what you could accomplish in 30 minutes. Now plan out one week’s worth of 30 minute tasks. Or maybe 30 minutes overwhelms you. Well then, how about 15 minutes? Unless you have the attention span of a hamster, you can do 15 minutes.

Having a hard time finding 15 minutes of down time? Really? Do you ever watch TV? What about texting and talking on the phone? How about updating your FB wall? Reading mags? Shopping? Just wandering around your home, sighing aimlessly?

Dig around and see if you can’t uncover some minutes that you could transform from dull and unproductive to actually being invested in something you can step back and feel good about.

If this gets you fired up, why not go ahead and plan out four weeks of tasks. This is what I do to run my business. That way I’m not freaking out and falling behind on things all the time. If you did 30 minutes a day, six days a week, for four weeks, you’d have 12 hours to accomplish something transforming!!! 

And you’d hardly feel like you had worked at all!

Now, if you liked reading about how simple this is, you will enjoy this month’s line up of articles written mostly by older women who have been around the block a few times. Tyanne and Stephani are spring chickens, but they listen to a lot of old ladies, so we like to include them. Plus they keep us hip.

Wishing you a blessed spring!