1% Thursday: Deal with Clutter

This week: Eliminate some clutter in the house.

When you have a headache, or migraine attack, or something similar, life can be overwhelming.  Big crowds, action movies, complex decisions – these are the kinds of things we generally want to avoid in the middle of an attack.

In the same way, clutter can be pretty difficult to deal with during an attack.

So this week’s challenge is – deal with some of that clutter.  Start with your bedroom and bathroom (places that you are likely to be in during an attack).  Clean up that clutter in that place you’re likely to see when you’re sick.

Don’t clean your entire house (unless you really want to!) – just start with that one place where the improvement will make the most difference.

So next time you’re sick in bed, you won’t be staring at that pile of papers you know you need to deal with, or that broken chair you were going to fix "soon", or those toys the kids left there, or the CDs that you’ve been meaning to put away.

You’d be surprised what a difference it can make – from a pile of "somethings" annoying you during an attack, to a neat area of peace.  You could eliminate the pile, or replace it with a bit of nice art, or some flowers.  And maybe your next attack will be just 1% more bearable.

What is 1% Thursday?

Every Thursday at Headache and Migraine News (weather permitting) we’ll talk about one measurable, practical thing we can do to make our lives just 1% better.  Usually it will be something very easy, sometimes it will be a challenge.  Let us know if you try it, or share an idea of your own – and maybe a year from now we’ll see that things have really changed for the better!