Mastodawn

So @Diami03 lovingly dropped an insight bomb on me earlier today, and I've been mulling it over:

"If you never get rid of anything and there's no room to put it away...you've got to internalize that some projects just aren't gonna get done, don't need to be done....and THAT'S OK."

Arrrrgh. I feel seen! But also I'm just not prepared to concede that ground. (Yet.)

My real problem in my office is that I can't "tidy" - put things in their place - because I have so much stuff that doesn't have a place, and I can't "organize" - figure out places for things - because I have so much unplaced stuff taking up the space I need to organize *into*. I bought an entire shelving unit last year, spent an entire weekend getting everything up off the floor into unsorted boxes on the shelves... and now the floor is full again, but my shelves are full too. 😐

So today's #UfYH #FlatSurfaceChallenge goal was to start at the edge of my disaster floor and see if I could actually put things in reasonable places, rather than just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...

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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)May 11, 2023

This is where the #UfYH #FlatSurfaceChallenge specifying "put away / throw away / find a home for 10 items on that surface" really saved me, because I could cherrypick ten things that I *do* already have places for and not have to run facefirst into the much-more-intimidating problem of figuring out places. Also, I defined "papers to be filed" as 1 thing, which let me still make enough visible progress to feel good about the day's activity.

(Do I enjoy having to handhold myself through what seems like basic adult housekeeping? No, I do not. But apparently this is what it takes to get it done, so this is what I'm doing...)