Breaking Down a Big Project | Paper Primer | Part of the Landscape

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.

Break It Down

This week’s assignment is to make or refine your plan for managing a big, long-term decluttering or organizing project:

• Write down the key objectives of your project. For example, “I will empty all the unopened boxes from the last move” or “I will make the home office usable again.”
• Make a list of project steps. Don’t worry too much about putting them in the right order, but do make note of any step that has to happen before another task can be done.
• Review the project steps, and for each one, estimate how much time you think you’ll need to handle it.
• If any step seems like more work than you can handle in one session, break it down further. You’re aiming for defining project components that can each be completed in one session.
• Schedule a few work sessions, and put your plan into play. Revisit your plan as needed as you go along.

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