#1426 - just begin
Do you ever find yourself staring at your messy place, wondering where to start tidying up?
I do.
Materially, with my small home office, which is also my personal warehouse. But sometimes, it happens also with the space inside my head, where my thoughts live and multiply beyond my control.
Where do you start when things are so messy? It feels like no single action can make a difference.
It usually goes like this when I decide to tidy up my office.
For the first half an hour, I stare at the chaos looking for excuses to not do it. It feels like an impossible task, and I wonder why I should do it, knowing it will be like this again in a few months or weeks.
Then, I spend another thirty minutes thinking about where to start, weighing my options and feeling like nothing will make any impact.
Until I eventually accept that it doesn't matter where I start as long as I begin and keep going long enough.
I usually begin by throwing away everything that I last used a while ago, the stuff that clutters the space but has no value. And step by step, a path emerges from the chaos, and the process becomes easier and faster.
Same thing with my thought. It's hard to begin, and I usually start by letting go of things I don't need, writing them down somewhere so I won't have to keep them in my mind. And the more I proceed to declutter, the more a path emerges.
I just have to overcome that initial hesitation by starting. It doesn't matter where I start or if I have a plan; the path always unfolds itself once I begin.