Where To Begin?

I feel like, as the author of this blog, that I should be the one providing the advice but I constantly find myself stuggling to figure out where ot begin the decluttering process in order to make it stick. I guess I'm just going to keep writing and see what comes out of my brain and see if I can come up with a plan that works better this time. Or maybe I'll just rant for 500+ words and see how I feel at the end.

The first sticking point...

There is always stuff somewhere. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of organizing is where to put the stuff. I guess there is so much to do that everything feels like a priority and then I'm overwhelmed then never end up getting started so then I just stay overwhelmed and nothing gets done.

Here is my example, well the first of many... There is a lot of stuff that lives in our entryway. We have a cabinet system in here that just isn't functioning for the space and everything ends up in a big pile and either messy or just doesn't getting put away. So to fix this I have a dresser thing that I want to add to our living room. But the dresser isn't done. I'm Ikea Hacking a dresser that I already own. I have this amazing idea in my head about how to makeover this dresser and my brain NEEDS to make it happen. But the dresser is in pieces in the garage and the garage is a disaster and needs to be cleared out but some of the stuff in the garage just needs to go to my mom's house and some needs to be listed online. Once the garage is cleared out I'll finally be able to finish the dresser then when I finish the dresser I'll be able to clear out the messy cabinet in the entryway so I'm really only 1 short month away from having one cabinet cleared out.....But then I feel like clearing out the garage so I can build the dresser is not the best use of my time when my house needs so much work but truly my brain feels stuck on the entry way until I can get the stuff moved to the dresser...You see why I feel stuck, right?

OMG! Is this what the "If you give a mouse a cookie" book was warning us about?

What's the Answer?

I think I've decided that I'm just going to do the work that it will take to get the dresser done. I've been putting off the work on the dresser because it feels like the least important use of my time but I think it will overall help more than anything else. Plus, I've always made the decision to not just do the dresser and over a year later I'm still not done with the living room and the entry way is still a mess. OK so that's it. I've decided...I'm starting the dresser stuff today! How exciting, score one for a dopamine fix....

Step one.

Today I'm going to start clearing the garage and setting stuff aside to go with my mom who is coming down next week....I'll keep you posted on my progress....