Messy Musicians and Creatives Day 2, small actions and celebrate

If you’d like to do the rest practice from yesterday, please do. It would be great if you could make this a daily action (ideally first thing in the morning) And you could repeat the not bringing anything in task too if you like.

But it’s important that we go slowly, kindly, gently and with ease. So less is more. It’s better if we commit to less, do what we set out to because the goal is small enough, and celebrate what we achieve. So give yourself permission to just do today’s task.

Today’s task is a little decluttering and tidying. I’d like you to think about 1 area that bothers you the most, or one that would be the easiest. And it might help to make the area even smaller – so don’t choose ‘the spare room’ but a corner of the room, or a shelf, or a drawer.

Set a 5 min timer, have 3 boxes or bags ready –

1. to put away 2. to recycle or charity, 3. to go in the bin.

Do as much as you can in this chosen area for 5 mins, then when timer goes off put the things away, the bin outside, the recyclables in their bin and the charity bits by the door or even better in your car. (Bonus points if you get them to the charity shop).

If you’re enthused and into it and want to do more, reset the timer. But it’s important that the after-job of the 3 categories get put away not left so it might be safest just to do the first 5 mins.

We’re building muscle, and building trust in ourselves. There’s no point overdoing it and putting yourself off for tomorrow. We are definitely wanting less is more. If you don’t think you can do 5 mins, do 2 minutes, or a 1 minute timer. Yep, I’m serious.

And no matter what you get done, I want you to celebrate yourself and cheer yourself on as you would your best friend. I cannot express enough how important this is, as most of us are chronic perfectionists with a raging inner critic. Celebrating every little win will move you forward, I promise!

Let me know how you got on. You can report back in our private whatsapp group, or on the zoom call tonight at 6pm where you can also ask me any questions

123, Go!

Lots of love, Naomy