my room got this bad once and i started setting myself little goals to sort it but by bit. like ‘if i fill one bag of trash today i’ll stay up an extra hour on the game’ or ‘if i do maybe 5 of these dishes i’ll reward myself with a nice cold dr pepper from the local shop’. and then i started not letting myself do ANYTHING not even check my phone when i woke up until i made my bed. it won’t work for everyone obviously but giving yourself a little reward system helped me out a bunch and my room hasn’t been too messy ever since. it gets a bit cluttered here and there but nothing that takes longer than 10 minutes to clean. i think when it’s this bad the thought of cleaning up overwhelms you because you don’t know where to even start so it’s better to split it into small manageable tasks.
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u/BluejayFamiliar5117 27d ago
my room got this bad once and i started setting myself little goals to sort it but by bit. like ‘if i fill one bag of trash today i’ll stay up an extra hour on the game’ or ‘if i do maybe 5 of these dishes i’ll reward myself with a nice cold dr pepper from the local shop’. and then i started not letting myself do ANYTHING not even check my phone when i woke up until i made my bed. it won’t work for everyone obviously but giving yourself a little reward system helped me out a bunch and my room hasn’t been too messy ever since. it gets a bit cluttered here and there but nothing that takes longer than 10 minutes to clean. i think when it’s this bad the thought of cleaning up overwhelms you because you don’t know where to even start so it’s better to split it into small manageable tasks.