How the f*ck is it almost June already?
Most of us are broke and it feels hard to summon up the energy or willpower we need.
But this weekend doesn’t have to be a total loss. Here are a few things you can do, which shouldn’t take more than one sitting, that will make you feel like a productive human being.
This is something we allllll say we're going to do but never actually get started.
There are some quick things you should do immediately:
After you’ve done a quick purge of those, you should be left with emails from real people and you can then go through each email individually.
Ask yourself: if you answer yes to those three questions, label the email under the appropriate heading (e.g. work, personal, bills) and get it out of your inbox. If not, delete it.
Depending on how bad your inbox is, this will probably take a bit of time. But it will clear a lot of space on your phone if you keep your emails locally and it will make it easier to find your important emails.
More clothes should mean more choice, right? But often it can feel the opposite. The clothes you don’t like as much obscure your favourites and the overall wardrobe can feel diminished as a result.
It’s time to pull everything out of your wardrobe and get rid of the following items:
You can take all the clothes from this list and give them to charity (apart from the latter category).
If you want to go even further, you could try building a capsule wardrobe, where you build up a wardrobe made of 30 basic items, including shoes, which you mix and match.
This aims to streamline your clothes and make you feel more satisfied with what you have.
This is for people who like to feel prepared. It’s nice to have medicine when you need it, instead of waiting to be sick and not having it.
A basic medicine box should have:
Perhaps you won’t have the energy or the time to cook every day, but you want to eat healthier.
To set yourself up better for the year, now’s the time to do some research.
Look at what you spent last year and how much money you made in order to figure out how to use your money sensibly this year.
Once you have classified certain money as falling into a certain box, for example, labelling money specifically as rent money, it makes it easier for you not to think of it as a free-for-all.
What things would you like to do this year? This could be things you want to achieve, places you want to go, things you want to do, whatever you’d like.
The aim of a bucket list is to keep you focussed and to encourage you to do things you would forget to do during everyday life.
If you’re into exploring, check out our bucket list of places to visit in Ireland.
If you have a lot of time, why not do a proper spring clean?
Go through forgotten drawers, sort through your piles of paper, get rid of out of date food in the cupboard.
Basically, if there’s an area which you tend to ignore most of the year round when you’re cleaning, now is the time to sort it.
There are a few of ways you can get rid of unnecessary crap from your computer, like:
Don’t forget to back-up all your important documents. You should have a local copy (on your computer), a copy saved to a memory stick or external hard-drive, and a copy saved to a cloud service like Google Drive or Dropbox.
Sometimes we get so busy that we forget to keep in contact with our friends. Like most things, friendships need work.
Make arrangements to meet up with people you haven’t seen a while. Send people a text or Facebook message and catch up. Or, if they live away, why not send them a letter or a postcard?
This will strengthen your relationships and give you something to look forward to.
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