The Journey Begins

This post may be indicative of my personality. Instead of getting right to the task, I had another idea: I would start a blog instead. I already had some experience with the blogger website from a class I took, but somehow that one never took hold-although I had good intentions to fill it with my journey toward education technology. But the problem there-it fell as most things to for me into the -"I'll do it later" category. So here lies my problem: I am a procrastinator, I have a lot of great ideas but the inability to put them into play, and I tend to get distracted easily. I'm most happy doing creative things, I dislike the mundane. So I'm more excited with the blog idea than the actual task at hand, but maybe this will act as an incentive. I am going to try to clean up my entire house by getting rid of or organizing things. I realized some problems yesterday when I started doing one teeny corner of the small room that my two older kids share. I had an inability to make decisions on some simple things, like whether to throw away a poster. Well the poster was sitting in the closet and bent, but it had all the NBA teams on it....and I remembered when with one of them, they would fall asleep at night naming all the teams, and it was perhaps that memory that made me want to save it. Too much thought went into a poster that cost probably 1.49 at a book fair. Then I came across an electronic dog my middle son (who is 11) got as a present from a preschool classmate. Why did I hold onto it for so long? I thought little guy (7) might play with it but even he has aged out. Why was it still in the closet. So I'm realizing that obviously I am holding onto memories with the things, but they are not bringing my children any joy (they are only cluttering their room) and I keep thinking of the show "Hoarders" when the kids want to throw things out and the mother insists that they keep things they don't want. That show is an inspiration, I'm definitely not in that kind of state, but I see what can happen when one tries to save. I also think the clutter acts as "baggage" as far as keeping me from pursuing other things. I love flylady and have used her system for a few years and she is adamant that clutter cannot be organized and sucks the joy out of your life. I have followed many of her suggestions over the years but there are few things I never kept up on. Check out her website for some great ideas. But for today I want to concentrate on a few things in my room. I will update later.