Personal Progress: Choice and Accountability

Here I go! As the Personal Progress leader in the Young Women program of my ward I am making it a priority to do the experiences and projects required along with the girls. So far I'm loving it! It is helping me allot, giving me some focus in my personal study, and providing a healthy outlet.

I will soon begin my first 10 hour project. One of the suggestions for a project is to "Choose to be more orderly in your home by completing a cleaning or organizing project." Almost every day I choose to be more orderly, it's the "completing" part I have trouble with. But not this time! I am determined! What am I so determined to clean, and organize, and complete?! Well here it is!

Welcome to our main storage closet! It's a really nice size, so we can put allot of junk back there (lift up those yellow sheets and you'll see more junk). Turns out that I have to get into this space at least twice a week, looking for something I stashed for convenience. Only thing is...it's not convenient at all. It's a pain! And really hikes up my stress levels whenever I enter. So, I'm looking forward to attacking this project.

I foresee some problems. For one thing, it will definitely take more than 10 hours, and I won't be able to devote large chunks of time to it on any given day. It will very much be a "stop and go" project, and I don't like that. I'm a "full steam ahead" kind of girl (when I know what I'm doing), but this is just another aspect of life that my kids are helping me with. Interruptions are okay.

Another problem may arise by the fact that all the "storage" is not ours and ours alone. You may or may not know that we live with my in-laws, which means our junk houses with their junk. (I use the word "junk" in the nicest possible way). When I do things like this I get into a very refreshing 'de-junk' mode where I throw out, or donate, whatever we haven't used for years. Even though I know it's not mine to chuck, it will be hard to  restrain myself!

I was wondering what this project had to do with "Choice and Accountability", and as I write this I realize that I will have to make choices and decisions through the whole process. "Keep it or toss it", "what's the best way to store this", "maybe I should stop now and play with my crying children". Just some situations that may arise. For the most part I am not very good at "deciding", so this will be good practice! I'll keep you posted on my progress, wish me luck!