Oh, how I love a good idea.
Maybe I love ideas more than solutions.
Sometimes I consider something an “idea” when it’s really a solution that I’m not implementing right that minute.
Which could be called procrastination.
Like this light-thingy. I ran across it while decluttering. It’s cute and useful and someone gave it to one of us. But I almost stuck it in the Donate Box.
I was trying to answer Decluttering Question #2 before I asked myself Decluttering Question #1.
Would I know I had it? (That’s #2.) No. I wouldn’t. So I wouldn’t even look for it.
BUT, Question #1 is Where would I look for it first? (Go put it there right now.)
When I asked myself that question, my roundabout answer was: Well, it would be perfect as a reading light on my daughter’s daybed.
Oooh. A good idea. I love those.
But my inner monologue continued: So I guess I should keep it. So I can put it on her bed one of these days.
And my over-thinking brain kept rambling: But it’s just going to keep cluttering up this drawer and even though it’s a good solution, I HAVE to get the junk out of this drawer.
Hello??
I’m so thankful my inner Snarky Slob caught what I was trying to do. Procrastinate when I had no reason whatsoever to procrastinate except that I seem to enjoy procrastinating. When it hit me how easy it would be to just DO it now, I did it. And two seconds later, this great little item was useful, and ultimately it was decluttered.
Because if I’m using it, it’s not clutter. If it sits in a drawer, still in its package, taking up space and mental energy, it’s clutter.
Want one? Wait. I meant, “NEED one?” If you know exactly where you’d put it the minute the package arrived in the mail, here’s my affiliate link to one that is similar.
--Nony
OK, Girl! You did it again! Got inside my head, witnessed that conversation taking place right there in my grey-matter and published it for all to read! How DO you do that?
Seriously, reading it in black and white, following you as you go through the process, helps me so much.
My husband’s word is ‘later’. I know when he says that he is going to get to something ‘later’ that I either need to do it myself or I can just toss it.
Sometimes it feels like a physical force field to push through to just… do it… now… but the results are so nice.