If you can park your car facing East (where the sun rises), then the frost on your windshield may just be melted for you before you even need to think about scraping!.

Using a timer really helps to keep you on track.makes you actually get started when you’ve made up your mind to hit “start”.

I used to use a chicken-shaped egg timer and I liked that the constant “tick tick tick” in the background kind of subconsciously let my brain know that it was “working time”.Plus a chicken timer is always fun and funny and I’m whimsical like that.Or at least I used to be.

I just use the timer on my phone now.It’s great because I can find myself getting carried away once I start a job and when the timer goes off, then I know it’s time to move on to the next thing.

Like I said, 10 minutes is actually quite a long time and I can completely forget that I had a timer going at all in that amount of time if I’m really focused.

It’s great to have something to snap me back to reality and keep my head in the game..This desk and shelving unit in Kennedy’s room looks pretty simple now that it’s all done, but it took Chris about 4 days from dawn til dusk to get everything to fit just right with all the weird angles and uneveness everywhere in the room.

And then it took me another full day to paint it!If you’d like your project to go a little quicker and you’re dealing with just a straight wall, consider using pre-made shelving units for all or some of your project and just attaching them to the wall and trimming them out with some moldings.

You’ll be amazed at how fast you can transform a room that way and you’ll wonder why you waited so long!.It’s never fun to worry about your budget on DIY projects, but it’s even less fun to realize you’ve overspent afterwards.