. Fifteen-Minute Miracles

Today I would like to talk about 15-minute miracles.  So many times when I personally coach, people struggle with where to start, how to start ,what to do, and how to incorporate the best methods. While these are important questions, the real challenge for them, and for most of us, is simply getting to work.

Many people want to change, they want to do things differently, they want clean up their desk, organize the dishes, or redo the laundry room.  But change is very difficult and so they never quite get to it.  Change, however, can be made easier with consistent forward progress.  There is nothing like setting a timer for 15 minutes and practicing at organizing with focus.  If you do that every day for a week, you will find that your personal environment, your home, and your office desk will become more organized simply because you “got to it”.

As much as having the right method, knowing how to make the right decisions, and having the right tools, simply getting going is what needs doing.  I have visited a home this morning and helped a friend who is disabled at the moment.  I worked with her children cleaning off the top of the refrigerator, soaking the dishes, and cleaning up the kitchen counters.  Fifteen minutes later we were all astounded at how much so little work could do.

May I encourage you and your family is to have a 15-minute miracle time, where you organize something.  Clean up the magazine rack, tackle the junk drawer in your kitchen, or work with the boxes along the garage wall.  A 15-minute timer can make a difference, because it will get everyone moving, get something accomplished, and bring improvement, change, and accomplishment.

So my friends, with all of the other challenges and commitments that you have, may I ask and encourage you to choose a project, find 15 minutes, take your timer, set it, and work on that little project and watch the miracles of organization began to happen in your life.

Find more helpful ideas in my House of Order Handbook.