Wrapping Up September And Revealing My October Happiness Project

My Happiness Project has been active yet partly in the back of my mind in all of September, so let’s take a closer look at how the month went by. I will also reveal what October has in store! This post is part of my blog series The Happiness Project.

September Tidying Month

September seems to have raced by at lightning speed around here and I barely had time to register all days.

When planning my next project in August, I was set on tidying a bit each evening before my bedtime routine. I quickly found out that it was too tiresome at that hour, but making a simple shift in the time itself turned out rather successful.

It seems I do best with tasks that aren’t too set in the calendar, but are merely done at some suitable point on a given day. David Allen of the Getting Things Done method calls these time-specific and day-specific tasks respectively.

I am an entrepreneur for a good reason and part of that cocktail is running my household whenever suits other things going on. Day-specific tasks ensure I live up to my own standards of basic cleanliness, but like my teenage self I still rebel a bit when there is no real point to a synthetic deadline.

If I go by these two months so far, my Happiness Project will likely serve as a string of opportunities to rewire my brain in various new and healthy ways.

October Checking In With Myself Month

I am moving in less than a month so the aim now is to do more checking in with myself than normally. Am I pushing myself enough? Am I pushing myself too much? Am I doing okay?

It is a decade ago that I met some absolutely wonderful people online and we still come together on the main topic of decluttering. Most of us are what I would call advanced declutterers at this point, because we have dealt with a huge range of reasons to shed items over the years.

I have challenged myself to get rid of 2022 things in 2022, partly as a joke and partly to see where I can take things (pun intended). I celebrated the changing of months just now by crossing a whopping 1000 items, and for example papers are measured as “1 centimetre thick pile” for simplicity’s sake.

Why am I mentioning it in this blog post? Because many of these things have belonged in what the KonMari method leaves until last: memorabilia. It can be so unbelievably draining and I still have a few piles to deal with before moving day.

At the same time, it is easy to think there is so much time left that I have no reason to be in a hurry. Inevitably something always comes up though, we are still amidst a pandemic, the daycare centre contains as snotty kids as ever, and ovens and grouts must be cleaned. You know?

Not to say “Chop, chop!”, but chop, chop love… Get moving. (Can’t help myself today, it seems, lol.)

Wrapping Up

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Photo credit: Alexandra Gorn.