Earlier today I did tidy / declutter some shelves the hard way, where I took everything off and sorted through it and put it back more tidily, and this ends up with me sitting in a chair staring into space surrounded by piles of things because I'm completely exhausted, and luckily I did manage to pull myself together after a bit and get the rubbish and the recycling to their respective bins, and everything back on a shelf. It is an improvement! It was an obvious place to start sorting through as I might well have left the Important Document somewhere in there. But it was way too tiring and there's a lot more house it could be in.
My goal for tomorrow and Saturday is to do multiple rounds of Dana K White's 5-step method, which is much less overwhelming. Or at least I'll do the first 2-3 steps (rubbish, lives elsewhere, giveaway). Often those steps remove enough Stuff from a space that tidying what's left is a lot easier. But basically I have to do bursts of this everywhere around the house I may have left the Important Document, because I can't finish my paperwork until I find it.
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Earlier today I did tidy / declutter some shelves the hard way, where I took everything off and sorted through it and put it back more tidily, and this ends up with me sitting in a chair staring into space surrounded by piles of things because I'm completely exhausted, and luckily I did manage to pull myself together after a bit and get the rubbish and the recycling to their respective bins, and everything back on a shelf. It is an improvement! It was an obvious place to start sorting through as I might well have left the Important Document somewhere in there. But it was way too tiring and there's a lot more house it could be in.
My goal for tomorrow and Saturday is to do multiple rounds of Dana K White's 5-step method, which is much less overwhelming. Or at least I'll do the first 2-3 steps (rubbish, lives elsewhere, giveaway). Often those steps remove enough Stuff from a space that tidying what's left is a lot easier. But basically I have to do bursts of this everywhere around the house I may have left the Important Document, because I can't finish my paperwork until I find it.