Developing Myself

Here comes week #2 (actually, week #3, since I just repeated the first week during the second one), which I really can’t put off any longer, though I’d like to. The change is this: each day, make sure my home ends up noticeably better than it started. I’m thinking about focusing on one room each day.

About the “noticeably better”: it doesn’t mean that it has to end up perfect, but, on the other hand, cleaning a square centimeter of the floor doesn’t count.

A bit of background: I’m really disorganized, and don’t really have a problem with living “amidst chaos”, but, of course, this means that I can’t have visits at home, organize my usual Sunday lunches, and so on. On the other hand, I really have a problem with tidying up and cleaning; much like exercising, these are activities I find utterly, mind-numbingly boring, as they don’t occupy my mind at all, but still need some active attention; even really doing nothing would be better, as without such a demand for attention I could simply let my mind wander.

Still, life isn’t made of only pleasant activities, and I really must do something about my “lair”. Therefore, I came up with this plan. If I spend, say, 10-15 minutes each day improving the condition of one room, in a couple of weeks the house will be good enough to have visitors again — without the insanity, the horror of, say, spending an entire weekend doing nothing but this.

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