For this project, I have decided to completely reorganize my room. Since it's small, it continues to get cluttered every day with more and more papers and items I collect. The build up is unnecessary so I feel that creating a working system of organization, I will be less stressed in my life.
Before beginning this project, I felt really cluttered and dirty. Having a messy working space never results in a good outcome. For the most part, I find myself working a lot on homework and other projects in my room. This environment is livable and clean, but that's only on the outside. If someone were to step in my room they would think they have entered a space of peace and tranquility. However, taking a look in my closet, under my bed, or in my drawers, they would find a messy and unorganized dark hole.
At the start of this process, I felt overwhelmed because of the amount that had to be done. It was stressful picking a place to start because I kept thinking about the big picture of what needed to be accomplished. However, I realized that starting on small things would be the best way to approach this. I started with under my desk where over the last year, a huge stack of papers and pamphlets of ACT practice and college info had collected. I normally don't look back on these, but the pile continues to grow larger and larger. Before I began to clear this out and organize it, I decided to go through each of the papers and figure out what the essentials were at this point in the college process. I was very successful with my duty to help the earth because of how much I ended up recycling.
Once that was complete, I even felt a small weight lift from me. I felt more on top of my college situation after just reviewing all of the clutter. I did similar things with my drawers and closet and found that there were a lot of unnecessary things creating clutter around there. After completing the cleaning process, I felt such relief. I know that my life has just become a lot more organized, even though I do consider myself to be organized already. This just enhances it and makes me feel more confident about the work I can accomplish now that I have taken this big step to having a cleaner room and working space.
My mind feels so much less stress. The stress did build up at the beginning of the project because of the type of day I was having. I thought a lot about college and after finishing the cleaning, I was able to make a few decisions about that. This project really helped my mind advance and started it off on a clean slate. I think it's important to be able to start each week off with a clean slate. I normally set aside time on my Sunday to clean my room so I won't be stressed when school starts again on Monday. I just took it a step further today and because of this, my mind feels a lot clearer.
I know now that I can accomplish any big task if I really put my mind to it. It's hard to get the motivation to start a big project, but after the first steps of working on it, it gets easier and easier. I learned that once you accomplish a small task, it's easier to motivate yourself to finish a project or something even bigger. I will remember this the next time I want to finish something that doesn't seem doable.
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