Do you know this feeling when it’s a whole new year and you have decided to re-organize your house and really get your sh*t together and now you have this fresh, ‘clean-slaty’ feeling? So, in this blog post, I will share my monthly reset routine with you, together with some small business tips & tricks to reset your business so you can feel this freshness too.

Gosh, maybe it’s my perfectionism, but I love that sparkly, clean feeling so much that I wanted to re-create that feeling in my business, so I just feel super excited and inspired to get work done.

And you know, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a whole new year in order to create this fresh feeling.

This is especially useful when you have been experiencing a creative block or just have been feeling in a rut lately.

Ready? Let’s do this!

Other Reads:

• How To Organize Your Whole Business In One Single Notebook
• Overcoming Perfectionism: 7 Steps to Silence Your Inner Perfectionist
• 12 mistakes you are probably making that are killing your productivity
• Losing Motivation? 7 Bullet-Proof Ways To Regain Your Passion And Stay Motivated In Your Business
• How To Set Healthy Boundaries As A Solopreneur
• How I Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed As A Solopreneur: 3 Simple Steps

I got the idea of a monthly reset routine from one of my favorite YouTubers MuchelleB, and decided a few months ago to try this out in my business.

I loved it so much that I now do this routine every single month and it really helps me to stay organized and on top of things. Here are 7 things I love to do during my monthly reset routine.

#1. Transforming my inbox

Let’s start with the most stressful, and probably the most important one of these small business tips: your inbox.

Start with re-organizing your inbox, delete all the emails you don’t need, archive the e-mails you do need to save in the adequate folder, and act upon the emails that require some action from your side, so you have a re-organized, clean inbox that doesn’t overwhelm you.

#2. Re-organize your to-do lists and calendar

Brain dump all your to-dos, commitments, appointments, and events and create your master to-do list for the month (business, as well as personal stuff)

I personally like to categorize my to-do’s with certain tags (such as errands, computer, phone calls, cleaning,…). This makes it easier afterward to batch similar tasks together and get them checked off in one go.

So, for example, I will do all my errands the same afternoon or will spend a whole morning doing all my phone calls at once.

I will then schedule my master to-do list in my calendar (but feel free to use a planner if you prefer) so I know exactly what I will be doing and when.

Doing this planning session really makes a HUGE difference for me since I have the peace of mind that everything is written down and planned out, so I no longer have to remember all these things.

#3. Organize and update your information management system

Take the time to organize all the information on random post-its, notes on your phone, scribbles in your notebook, or print screens you have taken.

Organize all this information and give it a home in your information management system, so it is easy to find those valuable pieces of information afterward.

If you don’t have an information management system in place, I would totally recommend that you create one. I personally use Notion for this and it just. changed. my. life. completely.

#4. Create or update your vision board

Another thing I love to do in order to create this new, fresh feeling is to update and refresh my vision board with new pictures and quotes and set it as the wallpaper on my computer.

As you grow as a person and as a business, sometimes your vision board has to grow too.

Sometimes, the things that inspired you & resonated with you once, right now just don’t anymore, so change up your vision board if necessary with new pictures and quotes that really resonate with you on a very deep level.

#5. Clean up your desk space

One of the things that make the biggest difference in how inspired and fresh I feel, is my desk situation.

I feel like the state of my mind is often a reflection of the state of my environment (and the other way around). So, if I feel chaotic and all over the place then my desk will reflect this, aaand if my desk gets messy, then this will influence how I feel as well.

So organize your desk situation. Make sure you have all your notebooks, notepads, planners, favorite pens, and just everything you need on a daily or regular basis, in hands reach. However, get rid of everything you don’t need, and just act as a distraction.

#6. Stock up on your favorite things

Go ahead and stock up on all your favorite tools and stationery.

Replace that pen that is out of ink, the notebooks you completely filled out, and a new box of staples if you ran out of it.

#7. Do a digital declutter

Last but not least, get your digital files reorganized and get rid of all the computer files you don’t need anymore.

Re-organize everything neatly in their folders, ideally in the cloud so you can still access your documents even when your computer crashes.

Other Reads:

• How To Organize Your Whole Business In One Single Notebook
• Overcoming Perfectionism: 7 Steps to Silence Your Inner Perfectionist
• 12 mistakes you are probably making that are killing your productivity
• Losing Motivation? 7 Bullet-Proof Ways To Regain Your Passion And Stay Motivated In Your Business
• How To Set Healthy Boundaries As A Solopreneur
• How I Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed As A Solopreneur: 3 Simple Steps

These round up 7 things I love to do during my monthly reset routine. This is the first blog post of my small business tips series. Let me know if you would like me to do more like these in the future. 🙂

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Let me know in the comments, do you have a reset routine in your business?