Three Strategies to Kick Off Your Best Organizing Year Yet in 2024 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #196

Wherever you find yourself in your organizing journey as 2023 draws to a close, we plan to be here to encourage and support you this week, next week, and throughout the year. In episode #196 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, pledges to help and cheer on our community in making 2024 your best decluttering and organizing year yet!

The text of this message and other show notes can be found at https://cfhou.com/tcfw196.

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Transcript

Hi, Clutter Fairy fans! Gayle Goddard here, counting down the few remaining hours until the end of 2023. I’m looking forward to 2024 with excitement and enthusiasm for all the possibilities that a new year brings. Here at The Clutter Fairy, we’re looking forward to another year of helping our viewers and listeners clear your clutter to make space for more of the life that you love.

 To get you started on the next leg of your journey, we'd like to offer three strategies to kick off the new year with a bang. 

1.  First, celebrate a success! By spending a moment focusing on an organizing project you accomplished this past year, you can start the year strong in a positive frame of mind. What organizing challenge did you get across the finish line? Did you complete the clearing of an estate, the redo of a closet, or just get the surface of your desk in order? Remind yourself how far you’ve come and what you were successfully able to accomplish.
2.  Next, cultivate a new habit. January first is the perfect symbolic moment to launch a new habit for managing something in your life. Step out right on day one, and begin something new that you want to turn into a new habit in the coming year. Do you want to hang your keys on the hook every time you get home? Maybe you want to clear the sink every night before bed, or to reset the family room. Start practicing your new habit today!
3.  Finally, plan a new project. Now is a good time to choose your highest-priority project for the year. Would you like to reclaim the guest room? Are you ready to make space for your car in the garage? How about streamlining the pantry or the kitchen cabinets? Pick a focus for your organizing mojo this year, and start planning the steps to get it done.

 As we look forward into the new year, I hope you’ll ponder ways to be happier and healthier. Search for community to support you, find things to do that enrich you, look for ways to give back to others, and promise to make it a priority to love and protect yourself, just as you do for so many others around you. Ed and I wish that for you, and hope we can be a small part of your journey again in 2024.

 Happy new year!