happymedium

Junk drawers are the most satisfying.... before ➡️ after

One of the simplest ways to encourage new habits is to make them obvious. If you find yourself saying, “I keep forgetting to do the laundry,” then you probably don’t have any visual cues to go off of when you forget. Though decluttering your home is incredibly vital in creating a peaceful space, leaving some things out on the counter as a visual cue will ensure that you follow through on a new habit (which is equally as important).
Here are some things that I do in my own space to set visual cues for habits:
🔹Spray bottle of water on the counter to mist my high-maintenance plants a few times a day
🔹”Did I Feed The Dog” tracker to remind the family to feed the dog, and to know if it’s already been done
🔹 Vitamins on the counter in plain sight. I am a lover of a clear countertop so seeing these in the kitchen bothers my eye line enough to make me take them each day. Once they go in the cabinet I forget to take them.
🔹Broom by the breakfast table ensures that when crumbs fall, I sweep them up. It takes two seconds and I do it without thinking when the broom is sitting right there.
🔹 Leave the light on in the laundry room until the laundry is done. We are big around here with turning off lights when we leave the rooms. So if I leave the light on in the laundry room, it’s hard for me to forget to throw the clothes into the dryer when I walk upstairs and see that light on.
What are the cleaning and organizing habits you need to create? What can you do to make the habit obvious to your brain? 🧠 💡

“I’m just not an organized person.”
“I don’t have any time to keep a clean house.”
“I have too many other things competing for my attention. Laundry will have to wait.”
If you have spent a while struggling to put good housekeeping and organizing habits into place (or ANY NEW HABIT) , then I highly recommend this book. .habits_ logically lays out the ways to reframe your life and thought process in order to make incremental changes that project into big changes. This is a book that describes how much more successful a habit will be in the long run if we start small up-front. Change things by 1% each day and you’ll eventually reach your goal.
It’s been a rough start to 2021 around here, so I needed this boost! Highly recommend it to you all as well.

Essential oils are amazing but if you use them regularly, you’ve probably wondered about how to store them so that they don’t clutter up your countertops. I’ve found a perfect product to help you organize them so that they are easy to see and even better, they keep everything nice and pretty!
These are clear acrylic shelves meant for nail polish bottles but work perfectly for essential oil bottles too! They are currently $12.99 each on Amazon and as you can see, they hold a ton of bottles. @ Woodstock, Georgia