Oops! I knew I should have posted this right away because my mom sent me an e-mail about wanting to help with my garage and attic. Shortly after I wrote the 2 Monsters post, I gave myself an attitude adjustment. I wanted to take a break and stop pushing toward my goal and I wanted to rest because my face was killing me, but I made a decision instead. I decided to honor the one hour organizing commitment I made to myself. I've been practicing a new discipline: the discipline of not yielding to myself. It wasn't my idea but I was greatly affected by the devotional entry entitled "Yielding" in Oswald Chambers' book, My Utmost For His Highest.
It's a great entry and I'd recommend you read it for yourself, but the part that spoke to me was this:
"When you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control it has over you. Even though you say, "Oh, I can give up that habit whenever I like," you will know you can't. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing, "He will break every fetter," while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will break every kind of slavery in any person's life."
I struggle with lots of things and God's been dealing with me about discipline, laziness vs. diligence and my thought life, but I think I won this time. Take a look.
I pushed through and this took me two hours.....and my face didn't hurt.
This one took only 28 minutes and my face still didn't hurt.
Two hours and 28 minutes and I was practically dancing around my house - quietly though because the kids were sleeping. I was brutal and threw tons of stuff away, set aside several items (neatly) of things to consign and now I'm done. I'm completely DONE. Two years of decluttering is over and I did it before my deadline and now have the entire Spring and Summer to play and spend time with the people I love most.
By the way....as I laid down to sleep, my face started hurting again so I guess God had given me a short reprieve:)
Happy Spring everyone!