December 14, 2022

You Gotta Try Out this 7 Day Personal Growth Challenge

If you ever feel like your life needs a change, then you have got to try this whole personal growth challenge thing. I promise it will help you feel way more motivated and even excited. In this post, I am going to tell you all you need to run a successful personal growth challenge of your own that is going to make you feel so accomplished and refreshed. Feeling motivated and excited about my day is something I have spent many, many years struggling with. Most of my adult life, feeling self-disciplined and motivated has been a challenge for me. […]
August 5, 2022

How We Unpacked Our Whole House in a Week

Guess where we are. We are on the other side of the move, and we basically unpacked our whole house in a week. Most of it was even finished in three or four days. I don’t remember how long it took me to do it on my own last time, but it was way longer than this. Video One Is the Week Before the Move. This was my July 14th update, and it has a few moving tips. If you do not need moving tips and only have time for one video, skip the first one and watch the second […]
July 3, 2022

How to Have a Successful Personal Monthly Planning Session

This is another one of my FAVORITE new ways I have found this year to truly feel like I am getting my act together: the monthly planning session. I originally called it my monthly meeting with myself. But to sound more sane, we will just say “monthly planning session.” The idea of setting aside time to do a monthly planning session is another tip I learned from vishakablone.com. What do I mean by personal monthly planning session? I’m glad you asked. This is a time during the first week of the month where we plan out the whole month that […]
May 13, 2022

Moving Checklist For The Perfect Move, 2 Months Out

Now, ya’ll, I say this with love because this IS a moving checklist for the perfect move. However, it is so important that you accept up front that the perfect move will never ever happen. So no, moves aren’t perfect. However, you never know what it is that will go wrong, so you always plan for perfection. The plan and the checklist are for the (laughably) perfect move. Just for your sanity, remember that it won’t actually be perfect. We are just going to hope that whatever goes wrong will at least be funny. Our family is currently 60-80 days […]
April 24, 2022

The 16 Steps of the Moving Process

This is another delightful year of moving for us. We’ve only moved a billion times, but it still feels like a daunting process. Any large task HAS to be divided up into smaller, more manageable steps for me. It helps everything, even moving, feel more doable. It’s that whole eating an elephant one bite at a time thing. What a gross example though… First, there are the sixteen steps of moving out. Then there are the sixteen steps of unpacking and settling in. Today I’m only going to worry about the moving out part, as it comes first. Tackle one […]
March 2, 2022

How to Find Extra Minutes to Work on Your Project

I have a problem. You see, I am woefully behind on prepping my house for this move, and I find myself in need of extra minutes. We all get the same twenty-four hours for every single day. No matter who you are. The day is the same. There are twenty-four hours, and no one gets extra minutes. But I am going to need some extra. I want to list our house to sell in May, and that requires me to comb through each room of the house. Our house is over-packed with stuff. Everywhere you look there is clutter. Most […]
February 14, 2022

Ta-Daaaa! Before & After Photos From Cleaning Out the Storage Room

I have this lengthy list of things we have to do to get our house ready for the housing market. BUT it is such a wonderful feeling to have my second storage room DONE. So of course, I made a video about it. Daniel told me I should make one of those time-lapse videos where it shows you cleaning in super speed, so I made one and put it on the ends of this update video: I’m also learning more about how to make decent YouTube videos….. Sorry, I did not learn in time to not film the ceiling while […]
January 24, 2022

Before & After Photos of My Storage Room Overhaul

Ta-daaaaaa!!!! I finished cleaning out my main basement storage room, and it feels so good. It’s like a hug when we walk through there now. My goal is to get each room of our house decluttered, getting rid of everything we don’t need, in time to sell our house this spring. You see, we are moving yet again. First, here are the “before photos”, which I blogged about here. Labeling was starting to get time consuming. Labeling storage boxes is beyond important, but my label maker is really a little printer, and it just is not quick at all really. […]
January 22, 2022

Step 1 of the Moving Process: Declutter, Reorganize, & Clean

Help!!! We are moving again!!!!!! Okay, I’m only sort of kidding. We really ARE moving. Oh, and also I am about as stressed as I sound there. Ha! And yeah, we do always need help, so I guess I’m not kidding at all…. We are five or six months out from our big move. That all depends on how fast this house sells and our ability to secure a rental house at our next town. We are only moving a couple of hours away this time, so does make it easier. It is a different state though, so I get […]

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