“We overestimate what we do in a day but underestimate what we can do in a week.”

All of January we talked about goal setting and getting ourselves in the proper frame of mind to create success. One of the most important aspects of a good goal is that of having realistic expectations.

What are the ways we set ourselves up for failure is having expectations of ourselves that are way too high for the timeframe in which we are doing. What are the best ways we understand what we need to DO is actually by identifying what we need to STOP doing.

There are 3 things we need to stop doing when it comes to home organization:

Stop looking to Pinterest to solve all your problems. They’re beautiful pictures but they are solutions to other people’s problems in other people’s homes for other people’s families. That’s not realistic for you!

Stop going to Target thinking “if I just buy tu is bin it’s going to solve all my problems!” Buying bins is the last step in the process, not the first!

Stop pretending you have time to tackle the entire house all at once! That’s just simply unrealistic for so many different reasons!

Now that we know what not to do, let’s talk about 5 things you can START doing:

Start in one space at a time. Whether it’s one room or one drawer, just one space!

Find the catalyst space, the room that’s going to start the ball rolling and make every other project easier… your first domino.

Pay attention to the natural flow of action and energy and organize around that already established function.

Enlist outside sources to help you! (Now is when you look at Pinterest and Target to give you guidance to set up what you want to do!)

Take small and consistent action steps to get it done. Time expectations should be smaller than what you think so you don’t hit burn out.

The concepts are the same with your health! Here are the things we need to STOP:

Stop getting on Instagram and looking at the perfect bodies you want your body to look like. Those aren’t real pictures!

Stop listening to everyone’s advice. They may not even be doing what they say to do and what works for one doesn’t work for all!

Stop trying to do all the things all at once. We can’t change the way we eat, and shift our mindset, and spend 2 hours in the gym 5 days a week, and get more sleep starting all at once!

Now let’s green-light these next steps:

Tackle one part of your health journey at a time. You can’t do it all at once without it being too overwhelming.

Find the catalyst that’s going to help you in your health journey!

Pay attention to what comes naturally and build off those strengths. Go to the gym or work out at home? What feels the most natural?

Find outside resources to help you accomplish exactly what you want to do. Tune out the noise and zoom in on the facts!

Take small steps at a time.

There is no shame in being realistic! Rather, the feelings of guilt and failure come from setting the bar so high there’s no way to can get it accomplished. Start small.

It’s OK to course correct! Give yourself the grace to shift things around and celebrate the successes you are having rather than getting down on yourself for that isn’t working.

This is a conversation we are actually going to have a next weeks episode of the Hōm Bod podcast. All right, so I tried it and it didn’t work… No what?

Action Steps:

Relisten to what you need to STOP doing and write down the ones you need to work on.

STOP, actually stop doing these unrealistic, damaging behaviors!

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