"Senior moments" are not the exclusive domain of the elderly. I've dealt with them since I was a child.
I can walk into a room with a definite purpose, but forget what I came in there to do. I work from home, so my dinner table has papers and detritus strewn all over it. When it gets too bad for even me, the only way I can clear it is to:
- take one object at a time off the table.
-make an immediate decision about where that object is supposed to go or what I should do with it.
- then execute that decision. I try to tie this into getting my steps in for the day.
If I make piles of objects that go to the same location, I tend to get so distracted by sorting them that I fall into a rabbit hole and hyper focus on the contents of the pile instead of actually putting the items in their proper place.
Another problem is the motivation to actually do things, instead of endlessly ruminating on the best way to start, how long the task should take, should I actually just trash things instead of saving them.......etc.
I can always think of things I should do, but cleaning or organizing isn't included in that list. However, housework still needs to be done and I'm usually the one to do it.
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