Do no harm...

"Do no harm" is a phrase I submit for consideration to join the fundamentals of "clutter rule of 10", "just do something", "there's no time sooner than now" and "give you future self a break".

Obviously, there's still a fair bit of clutter and mess throughout the house. I am not trying to deal with everything at once. Thus the idea of "do no harm". What I mean by this is that while I'm not attempting to improve the situation in other areas than where I am working, I am also taking conscientious action to not make it worse.

This is a tricky concept, but thinking about it in terms of dealing with all that is created on a normal daily-routine basis might help. And this view helps to justify the fact that while I'm preparing bags of things that belong in other locations as I work, I am not emptying those bags within their locations.

Now, I need to couple this with complimentary habits to "do no harm" within the areas that are in progress and I think I'll see great improvement.

Now, off to me vacation of organization (we're going out of town this weekend, so I took a vacation day to make sure I stayed on track).

Plan for tonight

Trajan has an ISR lesson and then we'll need to all have dinner and get Trajan ready for bed. Then, I think I'll go through the refrigerator, pantry and deep freeze with the aim of eliminating gross, expired and unwanted items. If this is done in a reasonable period of time, I'd like to go through the midspaces area and pick up things that have accumulated since Saturday as well as do a couple of short clutter rounds in the kitchen and the living room. If I get all this done, then I can fool around with the Wii for a while.

Also, I need to keep in mind that I want to look through the household systems and routines workbook with Paul.