Mentoring Through Challenging Times: First, organize your sock drawer
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Often a new year ushers in moments of pause and chatter around setting resolutions for the next 12 months. Rather than making goals lists and fleeting grand statements, I encourage you to start small. One day, at a time, even, one moment at a time. Create a new perspective and set easily attainable micro-goals, fueling productivity, positive affirmations, and personal accomplishments buckets.
Embracing a slight change to your physical environment will help move you in this direction. By restoring order and honing at-home organization, your brain will register these visual modifications in a new form. Whether it's making your bed first thing after waking up (a Tim Ferris hot tip for starting the day off successfully) or conducting a 4-minute sock purge — these are manageable places to begin to create a significant impact.
Here's how the 4-minute sock purge works:
Pull everything out of your sock drawer and place it on the ground.
Immediately remove socks that are missing their partners, then sort into categories (dressy, everyday, athletic, novelty, and so on).
Remove tattered, stretched, or damaged socks.
Scan the types and ask yourself if you need 11 pairs of black knee-highs or if seven pairs of grippies are overkill.
Return the remaining pairs and insert them into drawers by categories listed above, plus others you may have.
After completing this activity, I promise that when you open your drawer each morning, you'll feel an effusive rush of calm and order — what a grand way to start your day.
A few of my trusted resources for sock drawer tidiness:
This article was first published on Bizwomen.com on January 17, 2021, by Ellen Sherberg.