Well, maybe not this messy. But here is my point. I have been taking chunks of time since the first of January and doing as much as I can in a finite amount of time and then I quit and move on to something else. The day or so I come back to the “mess” and do another finite chunk of time and so on and so on. I have been absolutely amazed at the amount of work that happens after two or three of these 20 to 30 minute chunks is completed. It certainly appears to me that I am getting more done in these chuncks than if I were to start the project and go until I was finished. Better said, I feel that I am to be more efficient and effective with what I am doing. It is a good feeling.
So far with this approach, during the 26 days of the month so far, I have straightened out the tack room in the barn. It really had had little done to it, in the way of cleaning for a number of years. I cleaned out an area in the main part of the barn that was a bit of a mess when we moved on to the property in 2003. I straightened up, organized, cleaned out about half of a single car garage next to the barn that is storage building for lawn mowers, tools, rakes, fencing, etc, etc. Then I moved into the garage attached to the house and straightened up an area along one of the long walls of the garage taht had been ignored for awhile. My current project is de-cluttering and throwing away and organizing my home office.
I have to say that I am more amazed than I was just by writing this all down. AMAZING!
Attack the mess. Destroy the clutter in bite size pieces and you will overcome the seemingly overwhelming problem before you.
Have fun!
David
