I once would have said I appreciate things neat and tidy, a place for everything and everything in its place and while that’s true, I know it isn’t the full picture.
Zoom out and I am quite chronically avoidant of getting certain things done because a) I’m not quite sure what I’m doing and b) I often don’t like what follows – the disorder, the fall out, the inevitable chaos creation. Once you uncover previous ‘handiwork’, you’re going to reveal the patch it up for later mess!
“Whoops, now I’ve created a clean spot. Looks like we’ll have to do the whole thing.” famously uttered Ripley to Newt.
The reason I talk so often about taking things steadily in stages is because there’s much work to do, much sorting out of the self that is still to come. While I enjoy rearranging furniture in each of my rooms to reach the optimal layout, I, of course, realise it’s the window dressing to the real work which needs to be done – which only I can and need to do.
Grab today by its horns and get those irritating jobs done first.