Enough Already! by Peter Walsh

Author:Peter Walsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Published: 2009-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Make changes

If you want to clear the clutter in your family life, you can’t have a single family meeting in which you work out a few changes and hope for the best. Organization is not so much something that you do (although that’s obviously important) as it is the way you choose to live your life. You need to incorporate decluttering and organization into your daily life.

Even with something as simple as toys or clothes or artwork from school, you can teach yourselves and your children to verbalize what’s important and make choices based on priorities. Teach communication. Teach choice making. Teach them to honor and respect what’s important and to have direction and purpose.

How do you teach all this stuff when you’re just trying to get the laundry done and put food on the table every day? You do it by modeling. Your children watch and imitate everything you do. Value organization, control your environment, and live a decluttered life and they will too.

Use your goals to structure your day

Don’t improvise daily. You should start every day with an image in your mind of how the day will go. In the morning, as you go about getting dressed and preparing breakfast, ask yourself these three questions:

What do I need to get done today?

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