5 Minute Challenge

[Louise Lotz]

before photo

Hi everyone. I

This is one of the before photos. I am too shy to put them all up as they look a bit extreme.

I have done my first 2 days of 5 minute challenge. This is great and I especially like the idea that I can repeat the challenge. I am going to file these challenges with 3 by 5 cards, as I have a file with jobs that are weekly, monthly, daily and so on. These are monthly I guess, and I already have a monthly section in the 3 x 5 box, but I have never utilized this properly.

I have the numbers 1 - 31 so that I can always go back to starting on 1st of the month - with a bit of juggling that is. And some tasks will only get done in months that have 31 days, or else I will need to do 2 jobs on day 30 and do a bit of additional juggling in February.

Now I need to get back to where I was with the rest of my tidying.

I think I will do this in a new post, as the 5 minute challenge and before photo are probably enough for here and now.

L

[Jan Ferrante]

Hi Louis, you implement the TAKE 5 tasks a few ways. As long as you keep it simple and consistent, anything goes. You could either make a card for each day and pop it in to your daily spot to always be there for that day of the month (as you say 30 and 31 day months will be a little different) or you could put them all in the monthly slot and pull one daily, putting the one you do at the back and pulling the front card so that you will automatically rotate them.

I love the index card idea. Thanks for letting us know about that. It's a great system and really can make it easy to do and become more motivated to do the TAKE 5 tasks, especially if you use it for your other chores.

Your index cards could be a really good focal point for all of your tasks so that it is at a glance and off of your mind - I find thinking about what I need to do can be more draining than anything and set myself up for failure from sheer exhaustion!