This is the fifth post in a series on procrastination remedies. In the previous post, I talked about what to do when you feel overwhelmed because you don’t know where to start. In this post, I’m going to talk about what to do when you feel overwhelmed because you just don’t know how to do … Read more
Let’s dive into creating a Household System for something that happens on a daily basis: meal preparation. How does meal preparation lend itself to a system? How could it be streamlined and systematized for maximum efficiency? Think about making a process map for how you go about preparing meals. A process map is simply a … Read more
As much as I like to think that when I wash the dishes, they will stay washed, it just isn’t so. A surprisingly large portion of our “tasks” are actually things that need to be done over and over. Rather than putting “wash the dishes” on a to do list, this type of activity needs … Read more
Household Management is what we do to keep our homes running. It is everything that keeps our homes (and lives) functioning, useable, clean, orderly, and beautiful. From the top down it looks like this: Household Management – Systems – Routines or Projects – Tasks. (graphic here) Systems are like the machine that needs to be … Read more