Here are 5 habits we’re leaving in 2025! If you want 2026 to be the year you FINALLY experience peace at home, you have to stop doing the things that make it chaotic. So let’s change that! And remember, we are the CEO’s of our home so bring that mindset into this.

1. Stop skipping the house shut down. You wouldn’t leave a retail store with the doors unlocked or the registers open, so why are you leaving the sink full of dirty dishes or the toys all over the living room? You wonder why you wake up stressed out…because your morning begins the night before! When you skip the house shut down, you are forcing your future self to start the day at a deficit. You aren’t resting by leaving the mess; you’re just sabotaging tomorrow’s peace. My pastor recently talked about margin and it’s a term I can’t get off my mind. It’s essentially the space between your workload and your capacity. It’s the mental and physical breathing room to prevent burnout. Like allowing for self-care (exercise, rest), tending to relationships, handling the unexpected, etc. When you neglect things like the house shut down you are stealing from that margin. When the margin is gone, you’re in a deficit. As the CEO’s of our home, that’s a scary thought! Just like a corporate CEO doesn’t want to have deficit, neither do we. The shut down isn’t about perfection, it’s about logistics. Clear the surfaces so they are ready to be filled. Shut down the house at night so you can open up your day with peace.
2. Stop bringing stuff home that you don’t have room for! Stop letting a sale dictate your storage capacity. Real wealth is having exactly what you need, not a warehouse full of things you might use someday. Every item you bring home costs you way more than just what you paid at the store. It costs you mentally and physically. The mental energy of making a decision on where to store it or what to get rid of to make space, and the physical energy of having to maintain the item…keeping it cleaned, dusted, picked up, put away. Do yourself a favor and leave the unneeded inventory at the store.
3. Stop skipping the daily load of laundry. Unless you don’t have in-house laundry, you should never have a designated laundry dry. My loads take me 10 minutes to get put away. The more frequently you do it, the easier it is to put away. Stop waiting for the mountain to form before you start climbing. Laundry is a river not a lake. It never stops flowing. One load a day keeps the overwhelm away! When you skip a day, you aren’t resting. You’re just scheduling your crisis for tomorrow.
4. Stop letting the visual clutter sit out. Your brain cannot find peace in a room full of visual noise. It’s like white noise for your brain when you’re trying to get it silent. Every stray paper, every half-finished project, every “to-do” pile is an unmade decision that’s hijacking your nervous system. Especially if you have ADHD, your brain sees every object as a notification. If your counters are covered, your brain is constantly “pinging” with tasks. Your surfaces are for activity, not storage. This is where you need to implement my “Basket Method”. Grab a basket and clear the surface by tossing everything into the basket. Put it all away on the weekend or whenever the basket is full so you can finally clear your head.
5. Stop waiting for the perfect time to start. Stop procrastinating your peace. There is no magic Saturday coming where you suddenly have eight hours full of energy. I don’t want to hear “I just need a day where nothing is going on”…that day will NEVER come! There is never a day with nothing going on. If there’s one thing you can count on in life, it’s busy-ness, right? If you’re waiting for the perfect time to declutter, you’re choosing to stay a victim of your own mess. Stop being your biggest stumbling block!

Are you ready for a mindset shift so powerful you can actually see it on your kitchen counters?! Let’s get your head and your house back in sync. Let’s make 2026 the year we ditch bad habits so we can finally build a home that fuels our potential instead of draining our peace!