Dishes
I'm going to use dishes as a metaphor for life. Don't blame me.
When I see a dish in the sink, I'll wash it out. I don't know why, really. I just don't like seeing dishes in the sink. It's a visual thing, plus it uses space. I put most of the dishes in the dishwasher after I wash them, which is another subject entirely.
It's not something I make a conscious effort to do. It's automatic.
I realized yesterday that doing it that way is easy. Nothing ever piles up. In an organizational sense, it's clean.
Gee, that seems like an easy way to do life. Only I don't.
I struggle all the time with putting off tasks I don't want to do. I spend far more time putting them off than I spend doing them.
Part of it could be that taking care of tasks often spawns a set of side tasks. This happened all the time after Gloria's death. Tasks seemed to exponentially multiple as soon as I started on them.
It's not like that now, really. Financial and medical things are the ones most likely to spawn out of control. That's about it, though. Eli 23.7 might message and ask for a Panda by next Tuesday, but his asks always have a tight timeline attached, so they don't last for long.
I'd be interested in hearing if any of you are highly successful in this area. Maybe I (and all of us) could learn something.
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