Try a Monthly Reset Routine to Start Fresh Each Month

Life is full of natural cycles. In fact, life itself is just one big cycle as we move from birth to death and new life succeeds us. As a planner and journaling aficionado, I love to take advantage of natural transition points to give my life structure and forward motion.

The space between the end of a month and the beginning of another is one such transition point. It’s a nice time to take a moment, tidy up your mind and physical space, and start fresh. Perfect for a monthly reset routine.

I follow this rough monthly reset checklist to prepare myself and my workspace for a new chapter.

Step 1: Get Ready

It’s hard to properly reset when you are faced with physical clutter. The first thing I do is clean up my workspace. I have been loosely following a weekly cleaning routine, so I don’t have much to address at the end of the month, but there are always little stragglers that get missed in the day-to-day.

Papers will collect on my desk, or I’ll have a small pile of shipping boxes that I never broke down for the recycling. It takes me about ten minutes to scan the area, return things to their proper place, and give the desk top a quick wipe for dust.