This weekend, I’m tackling an activity I’ve put off for several months now.  

My husband and I are returning to the task of organizing our garage. We started about 8 months ago, but got distracted. The ultimate goal is to organize everything and place the items in cabinets mounted to the wall. We’ve sorted about a third of the garage storage so far.

Time-Block a Task

On Saturday, we’ll tackle the biggest challenge: a wall-length organizer that holds a wide variety of small boxes. Each box contains a variety of odds and ends. We’ve put this off for a long time, because it’s challenging to decide what to keep, give away, or throw away. 

Our strategy is to focus entirely on that organizer and stop at four hours. If we don’t complete it, we’ll schedule additional time for another day. We hope, however, that a time limit will encourage us to finish. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Patience and Communication

Knowing that this is a task that we both dread makes it extra important for us to communicate with each other. If his shoulder is acting up or if I’m extra sore from a workout, we lean on each other a little extra. Yes, both physically and emotionally! Having an accountability partner in a project like this is a big plus. It really helps to get the whole project done in a timely manner.

I’d love to hear about the challenging tasks you’re tackling this week.