Focus Challenge - Month 4 (2010)

For our focus challenge this week, let's play hide & seek!

Check in pockets of any sort for hidden clutter.

Some ideas for places to look are:
Backpacks
Backseat pouches (cars)
Briefcase
Clothing (if you rehang it to wear it again)
Coats
Diaperbag
Door panels (cars)
Purse

Happy Hunting!

Top 5 Posts:
How I Define Clutter
Decluttering: A How-To
I'd Rather Stay Home From Work and De-junk
Decluttering Made Simple (27-17-7)
Ever Felt Afraid to Declutter?

Focus Challenge - Month 3 (2010)

Focus Challenge

When looking for your daily item, hit a home run this week by decluttering something from all 4 categories: unwanted, unused, unloved and unneeded.

Focus Challenge - Advanced Level

Think back to the items you've decluttered so far and determine which of the 4 criteria(s) above that those items fell into. For your Focus Challenge this week, narrow your focus to the least used category when looking for your daily decluttering item.

You can, of course, declutter anything you'd like as long as you are staying true to your challenge and decluttering at least one item per day! However, learning to narrow the focus to a single category provides a little excitement for those of us with a mostly decluttered home or for those of us who've still got a little mental clutter to fling.

Regardless of which you choose to do...You're doing awesome in your journey to clear the clutter from your life in 2010. Keep going!

If you have an idea for a future Focus Challenge, I'd love to share it. Please send it to me via email (address is in my profile) or you can include it in a comment on this post. I will be attributing it to you so be sure to include a website, Twitter ID, etc. if you'd like it mentioned.

Top 5 Posts:
How I Define Clutter
Decluttering: A How-To
I'd Rather Stay Home From Work and De-junk
Decluttering Made Simple (27-17-7)
Ever Felt Afraid to Declutter?

Focus Challenge - Month 2 (2010)

Where did my weekend go? Anyways, I apologize for forgetting our Anniversary yesterday and not posting our Focus Challenge. This time we are going to help our future self out just a bit.

Find 7 small pieces of clutter over the next week IN ADDITION to your daily item. Put your daily item in your Donation Station and stash the other items near it.

During your 365 day journey there will come difficult days. It happens; life does get in the way of our grand plans sometimes. If you are too busy on a particular day to find an item to declutter, pull one from your saved items to use. You will thank your past self for helping you out like that!

Similarly, if you miss a day because life was so busy and the day was over before you knew it, allow yourself the mistake and renew your commitment for the days following. Believe it or not, you decluttered something...the guilt & frustration with yourself would have been mental clutter. If you don't allow it to take root, then you have decluttered it! With that said, beware of starting down the very slippery slope by allowing yourself to miss a day on purpose.

If you must make it up (remember...there's no guilt allowed here!), then pull an item from the "just in case" stash on the very next day, put it in your Donation Station and call it good. The point of the challenge is not all-or-nothing defeating perfectionism, but to build the routine of doing something each day to develop it into a lifestyle habit. If you miss a day, keep going!

Top 5 Posts:
How I Define Clutter
Decluttering: A How-To
I'd Rather Stay Home From Work and De-junk
Decluttering Made Simple (27-17-7)
Ever Felt Afraid to Declutter?