Re: Procrastination? Removed My Lynchpin!

[Anonymous]

Powcat: I’m sorry you’re feeling so down. I know that feeling and it’s miserable.

In my case, what keeps me from starting is being overwhelmed. I am great at standing around looking at the mess and coming up with a plan to get things organized, but I can’t quite put it into action. I have a small apartment and I need more storage space. OK, that’s not really true; I have enough storage space, it just isn’t organized very well. I keep repeating the mantra in my head “a place for everything and everything in its place”, but it doesn’t help.

I keep saying that I need a “staging” area, a place to sort things out and put like things with like things so that I can put them all away where they belong. Then I end up with a mess on my bed (usually the only large cleared off surface in the joint) and I end up piling the junk up somewhere so I can go to sleep. And so the mess seems to migrate around the apartment in that manner.

I am overwhelmed. I guess I get so far ahead of myself inside my head that I am paralyzed and I don’t know where to start. I have asked for help from my sister and my nephews, but I don’t think they enjoy helping me. I tend to micromanage everything and get mad if someone throws away something I wanted to keep. I know that makes me sound like a hoarder, but it’s not that, it’s just that I think it’s a little disorienting to have someone else moving my stuff around. Even though my place looks like a tornado hit it, I can usually find things that I need to function every day (keys, umbrellas, my handbag, etc., etc.). When things get moved around, I feel a little out of sorts.

One of the best things I ever did was to call 1-800-GOT-JUNK or was it GOT-TRASH? I can’t remember now, but I want to get them in here again. They send a couple of guys with a truck to your house and all you have to do is point to whatever you want them to remove. They take garbage, recycling and even things that will be donated to charity. The last time I did it, it felt so great, but it’s been a few years now and I’ve got another mountain.

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