Before I can throw an old Sudoku book away, it has to be meticulously gone through and any important information needs to be transferred to a different scrap of paper, to be put in a pile, lost, briefly refound and placed in another important pile, lost again, then rediscovered 2 years later when it is no longer relevant.My piles of paper are legendary. But I am getting better. Really! Truly! I'm trying to implement GTD in my life, but like anything else, I can't just follow the directions, I have to add my own twist, so it doesn't quite work out the way it's supposed to.
Still, even partial GTD has helped me vastly. By simply asking myself "What's the next action?" I've gotten past the overwhelm of dealing with my clutter. I can now use my garage, family room, and home office all at the same time. Not one is full of the boxes and clutter from all the other rooms, which is how it used to be. I've spent years shuffling boxes from one of those areas to another, depending on which area needed to be used at the time.
I never remember to take "before" pictures,
but here's a "before before" picture ;)
but here's a "before before" picture ;)
The most improvement still needs to come in the garage, but I keep whittling away at the stuff out there. For now, I'm happy I can get my car in. Someday, we'll be able to get both vehicles in! (It's great to have lofty goals, isn't it?)
It's a crack up how many people can't park in their garages. When I go walking in my neighborhood on a Saturday or Sunday, people have their garages open and the fact that we are a nation of junk collectors is evident.
ReplyDeleteWe can always get one car in--mine. But once winter is passed, the dh's side is filled with his stuff, and more gets piled in. Then in the fall, we clean it all out so his car can go in and then the following spring it starts all over again. So ours fits 2 cars half the year. Ridiculous, isn't it.