I am a teenager working at a clothing store, and I am often assigned to the task of organizing & tidying-up a specific section. This includes folding shirts, making stacks of pants neat, fixing clothes on hangers- for a long time, I’d look at a particularly messy section and not know where to begin. I’d just start cleaning, trying to do everything at once and thinking about how awfully messy this place was. It would take me a long time to finish everything, and I’d get stressed.

But then, I figured out a very efficient method to solve this problem. Every time I encountered a messy area, I picked a pattern. For instance, I said to myself, “I’ll do the wall shelves first, then the hanging, then the t-shirt table,” and I’d do it in order.

The trick? Since I knew what my pattern and goal was, I was able to just focus on cleaning one shelf at a time without worrying about what came next instead of frantically fixing anything I laid my eyes on.

My job is so much easier and relaxing now…people think I’m weird when I tell them that I think folding piles of shirts is actually very meditative…

now, I just need to learn how to apply this to homework…!

However, I still keep a To Do list handy.

Beautifully stated, and I like the images you chose as well. Stumbled.

I love the quote by Dr. Wayne Dyer. It’s so true (as is most of what he writes). It’s when we start looking at the BIG picture we begin to feel overwhelmed and often just give up.

@ BC Doan: You’re welcome. Thanks for the kind words.

@ Lance: Indeed indeed.

@ SpaceAgeSage: Welcome. Thanks for sharing.

@ Natural: You have a good attitude.

@ Tabbie: I forget too.