8 Minute Timers Have Saved Me and They Can Save You Too!

The Timer I use most is a black Kitchen Aid
Timer like the one shown above.

They haven't quite saved me yet, but they've assisted me in making tremendous progress!  It's as simple as can be... A Kitchen Timer... 

My Mom has sang the praises of "set the timer" for as long as I can remember.  It didn't matter if she was tidying the house before Dad got home from work and sat us down with a project and instructions that no one move from that space until the timer went off OR if we were
causing absolute chaos and destruction and wound up with our "Noses on the Wall" hearing every tick of the timer waiting for it to be over.  I think you "new fangledy parents" call that "Time Out" now... 

Anywho, if you think about it -
these "8 minute timers" are a bit like a time out for me because often when I resort to the timer I'm doing it to work on a project that absolutely overwhelms me and makes me want to curl up in a ball... Something I absolutely abhor... BUT at the end is a FANTASTIC reward!  

The breakthrough on timers has been huge during "the Cozy Den Remix" (formerly "the Office Remix")  I had gotten down to that last few armloads of

stuff... Total randomness... "things we might want to use in the house" "things I might want to use in the room" "a huge pile of recipes" "a gaggle of vases and candle holders and such".... It was fairly categorized, but for some reason when I looked at it my noggin still scrambled... So I grabbed the timer, sat it on 8 minutes (my "magic number") and off I went... I grabbed the boxes of  things that still needed to be sorted, closed them, marked them and carried them directly to the sorting spot in the basement... It's "sort of" a "sorting spot", anyway... Ran back up the stairs and started taking items to their respective locations (or as near by as possible)... I kept my head down and ran like Forrest Gump waiting for that timer to go off ... I didn't check to see how much time I had or "stop and think" about what to do next, I just sorted and delivered all of that miscellaneous stuff to what will be it's new location as quickly as I possibly could.  As I was running back upstairs I heard my timer going off and came around the corner for the first time to really look at "the big picture" of the room and I was absolutely blown away!  It was really, really nearly empty!!  

The sorting area downstairs is going to house stuff that needs to be sold, given away, yard saled or gone through further.  I haven't quite "turned it

into" the sorting area yet.  I have some folding tables and totes waiting at the front of the garage and I'm going to do that all in one fell swoop on a nice day in the next few weeks...  

TRY the 8 Minute Timers!!   

If you're a procrastinator or you let yourself dawdle on things... I'm the absolute Universe's worst and this is really helping get things done and move forward on projects... You can do ANYTHING for 8 minutes, right?  Or maybe you should start with 4 ... :) ... but you get my drift ... Let me know how it works for you!! 

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