10 minute Monday

Starting today, I am planning to bring a 10 minute Monday blog for you. Here I plan to blog about tasks that would involve 10 minutes to do them, but would bring a big change in few days. The key to this system is from the story "The Hare and the Tortoise”... mean slow and steady wins the race. If you maintain a consistency in your process you will definitely progress.

Simple things like cleaning up a junk drawer, rearranging a linen closet, trashing away a broken shoe, a pot with broken handle etc. All these small things take a few minutes but surely bring in too much peace of a cleaner and stress free space.

I am too in the process of getting my home into a clutter diet. All the extra weight is getting shredded off aka purged. Last week I showed you my big garage purge. I am on a roll to getting my home fit and in shape.

I use my 10 minute Monday rule to devote just 10 minutes on a task. If it needs more I give it only 5 more minutes to finish. If I know it would take more than that I save it for some other time.

A 10 minute Monday should not take more than 10 minutes. This way I keep myself motivated to spare just 10 minutes and see an immediate result. This keeps me charged up to pick up another 10 minute task. Its like taking baby steps to more organized home.

Today I used utilized my 10 minute Monday rule to organize my kids school paperwork. I trash away all the unneeded paper everyday.. at least I try to. But still over time many more get collected. So today I sorted them in magazine holders I got from Ikea. I categorized them
as:

1) papers for mom to sign (that include trip slips, reading diaries and like) 
2) assessed school work from teacher
3) unfinished work to turn in
4) projects and to-study test papers


It took me 10 - 15 minutes to sort them and rearrange them, but it is going to save a lot of my time the next time I have to find a paper that I have to sign.

 Try it and let me know what you think about this.