I’m Tom Hailey and this is The Break Out Session Podcast.
In my previous episode I talked about how I’m testing Minimum Viable Activities.
Besides experimenting with that process in producing this podcast, I’m using it to de-clutter my home.
For the podcast…I’m finding that throughout the week I am easily thinking of topics I can write and talk about for just a few minutes. And I’m not feeling any hesitation or dread. Instead I’m eager to work a few small chunks of time into the day and week for this project.
The home de-clutter project is fun too. We’ve lived in this house since 1985. That’s thirty-seven years. We’re certainly not hoarders. If you were to walk through our house, you would wonder where is this clutter I’m talking about. And that’s a very good thing.
Also, we have nothing at all in our attic and we don’t have a garage, so we are free and literally clear there. If you walked into our basement, you again would wonder where’s the clutter?
But…if you opened a door and walked into a storage area in the basement, you would see objects that haven’t been used or even touched in over ten years. Or twenty.
And I have clothes in closets that I haven’t worn in over five or ten years. And stuff in drawers that I don’t use or need.
All of these items are out of sight and easily overlooked for years.
So…here’s the Minimum Viable Activity system for de-cluttering.
Everyday this year I am disposing of one item. So, by midnight December 31st I will have 365 less items in this house. The first things I got out of here were some shoes I haven’t worn in years. I’m embarrassed to say how many. Then some shirts.
Now I’m in that basement storage room getting rid of things like old radios that don’t work, briefcases I haven’t used since the seventies, and other stuff.
I’m finding that it’s easy and I look forward to saying goodbye to another item tomorrow.
Minimum Viable Activities so far is a fun and productive game.
Maybe I’ll do one push up someday soon. As my Mom would say…we’ll see.
By the way…it was eighteen pair of shoes.
