Office Decluttering: How's organizing 5 things a day going?

It's getting to the end of my first week of office decluttering, using my new strategy of dealing with 5 things a day. It's going really well, I'm quite amazed at myself. Here's the thing - I could wait and wait and procrastinate and forget about it and get around to doing it... never. Or, I could start myself on a system that works for me. Why does this work for me?

Dealing with 5 things a day is not intimidating.

It's that simple. I do not have the time to set aside a weekend to clear out the office. Some days, I don't even have a 5-10 minute chunk of time to do a quick tidy - because I never know when I will be interrupted. But 5 things - I can do 5 things. Whenever I'm changing the baby, I'm looking around the office, figuring out what to deal with next. Because I have set an achievable, realistic goal, I meet that goal. I mark that achievement on my calendar. This reinforces the achievement and encourages me to meet my goal again the next day.

And this, THIS is how a majorly gigantic procrastinator accomplishes anything. Don't get intimidated by the enormity of the project, just work at it a little every day and things get done. Suddenly your office is clean, or you have a PhD. Don't get me wrong, any member of the general public would not call the current state of my office "progress" but I don't care. It will make a difference eventually.