When I walked into my office, I started to feel crushed in. I knew it was time to do a thorough cleaning of my office. I felt the usual, “Where do I even start?” feeling. So I did what I usually do with clean up projects like this.

I tore up some paper and on each piece I wrote a section of my office to clean. I started at the door and wrote, “Top of file cabinet”, “Floor next to file cabinet”, “printer stand”

For my desk I broke it down even further – left desk, middle of desk, right desk, CD area, papers in inbox and cubbyhole.

I turned the pieces of paper over, mixed them up and had my daugher which paper was first. My office didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would when I started.

I have found that often times when I don’t know where to start or I have procrastinated on something, it’s because I haven’t broken the project down far enough.

Do you have any projects that need to be broken down? Need help? Join the Pleasant Projects Class starting August 6th.

And here is the August Declutter Calendar.