I Don’t Know Where to Start

This flow chart for my website is the end result of my not knowing where to start.

Isn’t it more important to just start than to spend too much time fretting over where to start?

Sometime, that is the message I impart when I coach people through organizing big projects or very cluttered spaces.

If you dig and start, you’ll soon find an order to the process. Your mind will jump naturally to the question of what should I do next. It will keep you moving. But, standing in a doorway, looking at stacks of clutter, gets you nowhere. Lying in bed at night, visualizing the amount of steps or work to be done on a project and watching them swirl around and around, gets you nowhere.

So just start.

Go in that room. Pick up the first item on the first stack you see. Get going!

OR

Grab a pen. List every single thing swirling in your head about a big project. List them all. Don’t worry about what kind of order they are in. Don’t worry about what to do first. Choose one item and do it. Along the path of doing it, you’ll figure out what to do next.

Even for a professional organizer, sometimes an organizing task can be daunting.  Business growth has led to natural changes. Those changes need to be reflected in my website. The more I thought about the changes, the larger they loomed. The more one change led to another and to another. The task became so overwhelming that it led to the classic situation- not being able to start because you don’t know where to start.

Putting pen to paper, listing every possible issue was the way to start. Just picking one and doing it created a natural progression.

So, just start. No matter if you are organizing a desk, a space, a room, your time or a project, it is more important to start than to worry about where to start.