Personal Genius Hour Selection - Week 1

POST 1:
I have spent the past week coming up with ideas for my personal Genius Hour, and boy did my brain run wild with ideas! I narrowed it down to three challenges- moving into a headstand for at least 30 seconds in Yoga, organizing my new closet, and learning how to make homemade sausage with a sausage maker. I tried to come up with three different ideas geared towards things I love.

POST 2:
After watching videos, attending yoga, and staring at a hot mess of a closet, I have made my final decision! What is boils down to is the fact that the one area that needs my attention the most is my closet!

Yoga is something that bring so much balance into my life, and is a time for me to do something for my body and mind. Although I would love to perfect my head standing abilities,  I would prefer to look at yoga as more of an escape than a project. So, at this time, yoga will continue to be just that. After attending yoga, and attempting a headstand in class, I realized that I will get there eventually, but don't want to make this my main focus.

My second idea of making homemade sausage is something that I really would like to learn with my entire family. My family and I love cooking together, and have been talking about creating a recipe that we could eventually pass on to future generations. The kids bought us a sausage maker for Christmas, so we are excited to use it together. I will still work on creating a family recipe worth passing along, but don't think I could dedicate lots of time to this enough to make it my Genius Hour focus.

Which brings me to my final idea- the dreaded closet! We bought a new house at the beginning of this month, and moved in 5 days ago. Since we have been living there,  I have spent so much time and energy on making sure my kids' rooms were decorated, organized, and a comfy place for them to sleep in, but have yet to even take a look at how to best organize my husband and myself to make life easier for us. We have never had a walk in closet before, which leads into also never having shared a closet- and we have lived together for 15 years! I would like to learn how to strategically organize all of our items in our closet. My hope is that I will walk away happy, organized, and with new ideas to carry over into other spaces in our home.

Organizing...here I come!