Metacognition: Get Organized!

For my "Get Organized" project, I decided to organize my room.

At first I was fairly reluctant to organize my room because I do not spend more than 3 days out of the week in that bedroom so I did not see the point in spending my time cleaning a basically vacant room. However, I thought about it and realized that my room was a mess and I would feel better if it was clean.

Originally I hadn't planned on doing anymore than cleaning out my drawers and organizing my clothes but for some reason I had to start with my bed and make it orderly so that I could put the things that I needed to organize on the clean bed.

I started with taking all of the blankets and books and clothes off of my bed and stripping off the sheets and the comforters. Then I put new sheets on my beds and new pillow covers, and then put the blankets and pillows back on the bed. Next I cleaned the floor, organized my desks and then organized the inside of my clothes drawers.

After I had finished however the floors were a mess of books and papers, not to mention half of my clothes. I realized that I could not go on with the organizing of my clothes drawers without cleaning up the clutter on the floor.

BUT THEN, I realized that items on the floor needed to go on my desks which were basically invisible underneath the cups, papers, yogurt tins, lotions, and books. So I now had to clean off the top of the desks and throw out the trash and put the papers and books away in extra drawers.

Throughout this whole process I was completely aware of how long this whole project was turning out to be but I wasn't necessarily upset. Once I got started I wanted to keep going so that my whole room was no longer a chaotic mess.

I finally got to my clothes drawers and I decided that I wasn't only going to organize them, but I was going to go through the clothes and pick out the clothes that I never wear and give them away. I've done this before, but this time I did not want to convince my self that I would wear that blue top one day even though it's been in there for longer than a year AND it doesn't even fit. Talk about hoarders.

At the end I felt very accomplished that I had done all that, and now my room had this new calming feel to it that made me want to clean my other room at my moms. But then again I probably won't. That room is 10x more worse than this one was...

Anyway, what I found out was that I have a very specific way that I need to go about cleaning my room. My though process was very organized and it reasoned out what I needed to first in order to do the next step and so on. I hadn't realized it before this project that my mind functions a lot more calm(er?) when my room is clean.

Until next time,
Rachel.