stop procrastinating and get organized!

i’ve been working six days a week, so when i’m at home i feel like doing anything but cleaning, getting organized, etc. But i’m trying to do at least a little every day. i’m probably moving in four or five weeks, so i’m making a concerted effort to throw out/give away the old/rejected, organize the new/keepers.

Whenever i try to get organized i get really overwhelmed. i have to take it in small steps and struggle to stay on target. And school is resuming in six weeks, so i’m starting to consider when i want to quit in order to give me more time to get my act together. i am working on this, but it’s painfully slow progress. For instance, right now i really need to clean up the place but it’s so daunting a task that i keep putting it off because i know i’m just going to be interrupted or discouraged by slow progress. Hopefully i’ll make another breakthrough soon because i have gotten some things done, just not enough.

This goal is definitely harder than it looks! It’s not that i’m trying to procrastinate, it’s that every time i try to get organized something interrupts or i just feel too exhausted. My job takes up too much of my life and what relaxation time i have doesn’t want to be filled with cleaning, job searches, and organizing my goals into reasonable steps. i have made some progress but it always feels like it’s one step forward, two steps back. Hopefully now that June is over i’ll start actually getting somewhere. 2006 has not been the funnest year so far by far! As my little sister Abby would say when she doesn’t want to do something: “It’s not my favorite.”

Every time i want to get to this goal other people interrupt or something suddenly comes up. It’s really annoying how everyone expects me to do what they want or need but then they wonder why i’m unorganized and a mess and don’t have time to do anything. i don’t want to mean or unhelpful towards them but sometimes i wonder if i need to get a backbone.

i really need to stop procrastinating and pursue this goal. (: