We’re not getting very far on Step 2 so far this weekend. Darling Daughter had cleaned her room and so she asked me to go to the basement and bring up her craft box.  Even though we have company coming in a couple of days, I decided she has earned time with the craft box because she successfully followed Step 4:

Step #4: Put away one project before starting another.

Even if you intend to get back to that project in the same day - try to make the committment to project containment.  Get one of those plastic storage boxes if you have to and keep the daily project in a box that can be filled up and closed when you are not actively working on it.

The holidays are a time when there are lots of distractions.  A well intentioned project can become a mess when friends stop by unexpectedly.

So, this morning when I went to the basement to get the craft box with her projects in it I uncovered another project of mine that I had been meaning to get to and I spent about an hour working on this older, un-time-budgeted project.  I still have to get to those Christmas Cards or move on to the holidays guilt free that there will be no Christmas cards sent out this year.