Welcome back to the 12 Days of Chaos series that we are doing here on the Joy Loving Home podcast. I'm Joy, and I am so excited that you've decided to jump in and join me while we're doing this series. I hope you'll stick around even after it's over. When I go back to my regular programming, which is all about decluttering, organizing, planning productivity for ADHD moms. You don't have to be a mom. You don't have to be diagnosed with ADHD to enjoy the podcast.
I hope that if anything that's happened in this series has resonated with you, you stick around and see what it's like on a regular basis. But for right now, we're keeping these short and sweet. So I'm going to jump in with our five-minute task for today. And today, I'm calling it 10 Clutter a Clearing. I know it's not perfect, but we're just having fun with the 12 Days of Christmas song here.
So what I wanted to do today is for you to look around and turn that invisible clutter that we tend to walk past all the time into visible clutter and then set that five minute timer and clear it. So how does one do that? The easiest way is to go into one of the rooms that would be most visible, stand in a spot and snap a photo on your phone and then look at it. Look at it with the eye that you spend way too much time doom scrolling on whatever your chosen social media is.
If you were about to post this picture, how would you like that photo to look differently? How would you change what you're seeing in that photo on your phone so that you would be more positive? Proud to post it or more likely to post it might be the better way to put it. So set your five minute timer and go about the task of clearing those things in that photo that bothered you.
What's amazing is a lot of our invisible clutter are things that we have just been walking past because when we originally sat the things down that we sat down outside of their regular homes because we didn't have time in the moment to take care of it correctly. What's ironic is you're about to set a five-minute timer and you're going to discover that those things went to homes so much more easily than you had anticipated.
Some of it is just like, how could I have just been that lazy in the moment that I couldn't have managed to get the toilet paper put away in the bathrooms or the shoes that started piling up there? 10 feet away to where we actually should store shoes? Or how did I drop all of those things there because, you know, I just didn't feel like running up the stairs with them? Whatever the case may be, whatever landed those things in their spaces, go about getting them to their actual homes.
If you happen to find some homeless clutter, but you know the general location where you hope to store it properly one day, at least get it in that general direction. So those are all the things that you're going to set about tackling in that five-minute timer you're setting. When the five-minute timer goes off, stand back in that same spot where you took the photo and take it again. Then you can keep swiping left and right and left and right and see the differences in those photos.
If you're feeling motivated and you want a second five-minute timer and go at it again until you can see that difference between your original before and your final after and just see how great that feels. Bonus opportunity. If you are part of my free podcast group and you'd love to share today's task, we would love to see it to celebrate with you to just, you know, be encouraging.
That's what the whole job of that podcast community is. If you are not part of it, but you wanted to be a part of it, you just go into any browser and type in bit.ly slash joy loving home community and you will arrive there. I have the downloadable PDF in there. I've been going live in there showing sort of how I'm doing the take on whatever our day of chaos is for that particular day. So if all of that sounds fun to you, go for it.
Just an added reminder, my membership group is open. That's a $10 a month. We have monthly themes. Again, encouragement at the accountability of having work with me days where we do zoom calls of body doubling, where we work on things that we're working on for the month. So if that sounds great to you, that's joylovinghome.com slash membership. I will put the links to both of those in the show notes.
So if you happen to have happened just upon this day 10, and you're curious about what the other nine days are, Please, please scroll back and listen to those. We would love for you to join us in this little journey we're doing for helping keep our clutter at bay this Christmas. Until next time, continue to choose joy.