At twenty I was away from home, married, and finally free to enact brilliance. My brilliance was so obvious to me but eluded others. This meant I could put things off, not pick things up, and never have to put things away! I was free, free at last to procrastinate and be happy for the rest of my life! But within days I began suffering from that happiness. Things not maintained, chores not done, bills past due, dirty clothes, in house litter, groceries, they all built up. My brilliance was bogging me down.
A second wave of brilliance hit me. I looked at one of my past due jobs, it was a week and a half old, and I realized it was an hour project. At some point in the future it would still take that hour. It took one hour either now or an hour then then. But in the mean time I’d been SAVORING THE DREAD. The dreads of my life were overlapping and dragging me down into a dark place of mud and stink.
A third epiphany hit, why do I rush through ice cream and savor the dread?

I didn’t change overnight but today the stitch in time saves my soul. To change at all is a miracle as much as changing lemonade back into lemons.
John has lots of project so a Messy desk; messy with a capital ‘M’. Stuff just piles up! John’s solution: get a smaller desk! Step number one.  nancymauerman.com