2018's Apartment Task List
To make my list, I used the Get to Work Book Project Breakdown Notepad (£8) because I love the way it allows you to, well, break a project down — but virtually any piece of paper or notepad would do the job.
I walked through every room of the apartment — the kitchen, bedroom, living room, and bathroom — and made separate lists of things that needed to be organised, deep-cleaned, or donated/trashed in that room, as well as things I knew I wanted to purchase.
Breaking everything down by room helped me to see that although there were a ton of things I wanted to accomplish in the apartment in general, looking at each bullet point in each room individually wasn't daunting at all. After making the list, I plucked a few small tasks from the list to do over a long holiday weekend, and crossing them off felt amazing.
Admittedly, there were a bunch of tasks that went unaccomplished, mostly because I forgot about the list for a few months when — surprise, surprise — the notepad was ironically lost in a pile of mail and other papers. After that, I put it in my bullet journal, where I knew I'd see it more and pay attention to it, but other places, like front and centre on the fridge, would work as well. As long as you know the list is there and are confronted with it often, the motivation to add one of the tasks to your to-do list surfaces (I promise).