The Power of an Hour

Today is the day.

Everyone has some dreaded projects lurking in their homes or offices. Perhaps it's a cluttered shed, an overflowing room with your kids' toys and clothes (and they're in college now) or a messy office that cries out to be organized. But, youre busy and cannot devote a whole day or weekend to this project. Your life is full of work obligations, child-raising activities and you're over-committed already.

So, the project festers. Maybe you even throw more stuff on the junk pile. Every time you walk by, it irritates you and yet it languishes.

Here's an idea to try starting right now.

Today, we get the gift of an extra hour when we turn our clocks back. Like magic, it is suddenly an hour earlier. Its as if you got up early. Don't waste it. Find a purpose for it. What would you like to do?

What would your life look like if you got up one hour earlier each day? You are more likely to tackle something with an extra hour at the beginning of the day than at the end.

There are so many things you can do with an hour - make this the kick-off for spending one hour per week on your goal. It can be any languishing project or long-put off and often thought of goal.

Have some fun with it. Get some music going, and think about how good you will feel when you start to see progress.

Remind yourself it's only an hour. You can do that! Give yourself time - after an hour things may actually look a little worse when you are organizing. Stop anyway.

If you started working out, you wouldnt expect to look like an athlete after one session, right? So, visualize the outcome you want. Schedule one hour per week and this job will be not be painful. If you find that you dont want to stop, do it anyway and you may look forward to resuming. Good feelings come from getting things done but overdoing it leads to fatigue and dread.

After you put in your hour, go back to your other activities. That makes it easy to continue. Make that hour count today and until you are satisfied with your results. And then find another goal for your power hour each week.

Leave a comment, let me know how its going, and enjoy the gift of time.