A big breakthrough for my marriage and how I have a healthier relationship with home improvement projects has been the use of a Kanban board to organize what we wish to do and turn it into action. It’s cheap and easy to have a wish, but it’s quite another matter to turn that into a completed project. The agreement is, that anything can go on the Kanban board, but it’s a joint decision of what gets prioritized. Luckily we live under our means, so sometimes the constraints of cost come up, but that goes into the decision-making. As the primary laborer for the projects, I will only actively work on one project at a time. Sometimes things go on hold, so they will move to the Waiting column.
At the end of the year, I will take a picture of what was completed and toss the Post-it notes, leaving room for a new year.