Get Organized

I am an all or nothing kind of person. I hate doing anything half way. It will either get done fully or not at all. My logic is, if you're not going to finish it, why start it in the first place? Now this kind of thinking has gotten me into many short projects and through simple tasks, and pushed me through long, heavy, complicated and difficult projects. It has also caused my room to turn into a gigantic "pigsty", as my mom likes to call it. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw the Get Organized assignment. It meant that I would have something clean at last! But as it turns out, I had been dragging it out, wondering when am I going to find the time for 45 minutes of cleaning? Between school, work, and homework, I can't find the time to get enough sleep in and now I had to find time to organize. Thinking about it, that was the only downside to this prompt, it takes time.
During that time, I knew where my train of thought would lead me. It goes like this...

" If I am going to organize my closet, I may as well do my laundry, including my sheets, but then I'd have to clean under the bed, which leads to vacuuming, and as long as the vacuum is out I should clean the whole floor. But all this junk is in the way, when did all these water bottles get here, I never knew I had so many chargers and belts, there's the humidifier I never use after it has run out of water, more clothes, binders and random papers, teacups, flashcards, candles, paychecks and earrings, hair dryers, slippers, then the "aha!" moment when I see that my headphones were under a sweater this entire week, receipts and the list drones on and on."

You can see where this is going. This is how my cleaning starts every single time. I love organizing my closet, the catch is that I do not find having a clean closet with a whole hamper and a half of clothes waiting to be reincorporated into the closet, at all satisfying. At this time, I extend this 45 minute organizing of my closet session and reach for cleaning(organizing) my entire room in under an hour. No longer dreading it, I am now excited and motivated to get through one hour and see my new, clean and organized room.

While organizing anything my mind goes into a therapeutic cycle, like a sleep cycle. My thoughts start and pause on tangents like, why did I need an assignment to make me clean my room?, and then they would fade away until I caught myself spacing out then something else would grab my attention and a new thought would come and the cycle began again.

I also thought about how many clothes I have that I just do not use, and I have decided to put them to better use and donate them to Goodwill or something.  Looking back at the hour I spent cleaning my room, I am happy with it. True, it is not what I am completely satisfied with but considering I did this in an hour, I am proud of myself. I got a load of laundry done and into my closet, the floor is clean and vacuumed and I can see my desk from my clean bed. All in all, it was an hour well spent.