Cleaning Up My Act and Organizing Life.

I love organization!  It makes me feel like I am in control of my life.  Like I am actually getting somewhere by putting things in order.  But as soon as I organize it, I make a mess of it all.  I can't stay organized.  I think I get this from my mom.  She is a very organized person, but her office is a HUGE mess.  She constantly has to clean up after herself.  I am totally the same.

I am not a slob, i don't have candy wrappers or food left on plates, i just have piles of laundry in the corner of my closet instead of hampers, and piles of mail, boxes of junk, etc.  I am not a hoarder, but i do hang onto stuff more than i should.  

Right now as i sit here on my computer I look around my house.  on the stairs I have a small pile of clothing to be put away in my son's room, some towels in towels to be placed in the lenin closet, the diaper bag hanging on the banister and Clint's SCION visor.  One the floor, my son's dirty laundry that needs to be put into the hamper in the laundry room.  a few DVD cases are sitting on the floor in front of the TV, a small Toy Story ball rests on the floor as well as a firemen's hat and a Where's Waldo book.  The coffee table is full of Jordan's Coloring pages, Crayons, a sipee cup and some toy cars and planes.  The Kitchen is pretty much the same, but all kitchen stuff: Towels, bowls, salt and pepper grinders, bread, a few toys, 2 cameras some stationary and my wedding binder... stuff everywhere.  nothing gross - just cluttered.  

Sometimes it's too much that I do not know where to start.  So I just sit there and STARE at it all instead of doing anything about it.  But today i did a tiny bit of organizing in my pantry and it made me feel better. Just that little bit inspired me to go further.  

You can apply this to any part of your life.  If life begins to feel so cluttered, that you don't know where to start, just start on something TINY, something easy and it will inspire you to move forward and do more.  

The next challenge is keeping it clean and organized.  The key to that is staying aware of how you begin to clutter, and to NOT be lazy and clean up after yourself.  HAH!  This will be tough!