I have the TV on while working on a few things on my laptop.  The show that’s on is Fixer Upper.  Featured on this episode is a young couple who inherited a house that hasn’t been lived in for 10 years.  It has a lot of damage from just sitting.  There’s a lot of critters inside the house but other things have happened to the house from time, outside and inside.  Big things like the foundation cracking.
It reminded me of when I first started clearing out my living room a few months ago.  There were so many things that needed to be fixed from the damage that wasn’t dealt  with over the years.  It was damage that I couldn’t see because it was underneath the clutter. Some of the things that I found were actually quite embarrassing.  They were things that should have been taken care of right away because they were minor and would have only taken a few minutes to fix but because they were hidden, they were neglected and took a lot longer and a lot more money to fix.
I always wonder, why is it so easy to ignore this stuff?  Why is it so easy to walk past the things that are sitting on the floor?  For example, a glove sitting on the floor in the middle of June.  Why does everyone walk past it 20 times a day but no one picks it up?  I’m thinking about picking it up and throwing it away.  But why haven’t I yet?  I don’t really know.  I’m always busy and preoccupied with other things but it would only take a second to pick it up.  I think that once I figure that out, it will be a great breakthrough.  I think it’s a habit that I never picked up but I would like to and I would like to teach my kids.
I feel like there are so many things that are so simple and once I finally do them, it’s like “why didn’t I ever do this earlier?!?” For example, moving my “notes” that I had all over my desk to Google Drive so that they are easier to access and take up less space on my desk – seriously so much easier and cleaner and I’m less likely to lose them! Another example, when I put off cleaning something because I think it’s going to be hard then I do it and it’s like “well, that was easy.”
LOL! Yep, I always wonder why I put some of that easy stuff off too!! Maybe anti-procrastination should be my goal for this year 🙂