One Year to An Organized Life : Week 1

with each step I am more certain
Everything will turn out fine
I have confidence the world can all be mine
They'll have to agree I have confidence in me

I have confidence – The Sound of Music

It’s that time of year again.  A fresh start, new beginnings, blah blah blah.  I’ve made plentiful resolutions in previous years; diets, skincare regimes, the list is endless.  But this time is different.  I’m using this year to recreate myself from top to toe and this time I’m sticking to it.  That’s part of the reason for starting this blog.  Hopefully if I have to chronicle my progress I will be less likely to just give up or let it slide.

To get me on my merry way I bought a book from the Amazon Kindle store. (Well, actually I bought a lot of books, but this post is about one of them in particular.)  The book is called “One Year to An Organized Life” by Regina Leeds and it basically does what it says on the tin.  The book takes you through one whole year, working on a section of your home at a time, reorganizing and redesigning.  It also helps to alter your attitude towards organization and time management.  You have a set of tasks to complete each week. I’m not going to go through the tasks in detail as that wouldn’t be fair to the author.  However if you would like to get your own copy and follow along with the project I’ve included the link below:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Organized-Life-Week---week/dp/1600940560/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388617110&sr=8-1&keywords=one+year+to+an+organized+life

Obviously, before I could start on Week One I had to go and buy some supplies.  Every good project needs the right tools.  To complete the project you’re supposed to do some journal writing, so I picked up a new notebook, a diary to help set a calendar of housework and some post-it notes in case of little ideas that suddenly occur to me.  Here is my little pile of loot!

So tonight, I have completed my journal, as instructed and am very much looking forward to getting stuck into the more practical projects.  Do I think I can keep it up this time? Of course – I have confidence in me!!