Ask Us Anything: Procrastination, Help Moving, Organizing Legos

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Push Back on Procrastination

This week’s assignment is to take aim at a project or task on which you’ve been procrastinating:

• Identify a project or task that’s been lingering on your to-do list for far too long.
• Experiment with one or more of these techniques to break loose from your inability or unwillingness to move the task or project forward:
  • Ask why. Reflect on whether the task or project is still something to which you feel committed. Sometimes it’s okay to take something off your list with the stroke of a pen.
  • Break it down. Try breaking the task or project into a list of the smallest components that you could do at one time.
  • Set a date. Schedule an appointment with yourself to take action on the overdue project or task, or the first component you listed in the point above.
  • Wrap it up. Is the project or task close to completion? How much time will it take to finish? Commit to spending that time this week!
  • Reduce distractions. Pay attention to what you’ve been doing instead of the task or project in question. Change your work environment or move to a different space to reduce your avoidance behaviors.
  • Be gentle with yourself. Be compassionate and realistic as you face your incompletions.

  For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.