I think losing weight, getting in better shape physically will help me with my goal of getting out of my mess. Losing weight will give me more energy and that's something that's needed in abundance when I'm working on decluttering!

In fact, if I had to pick the one thing that's stopping me from having an organized house, it's lack of energy. I get so tired I just don't have the energy sometimes even if I find the time some days. And it takes extra energy for me to go through piles. It's not just scrubbing the tub or something. It's have-to-focus type energy that I find hard to do on a daily basis.

So my strategy right now is to go to bed earlier. So far that helps some. Doesn't get me through the day, unfortunately but my mornings are perkier.

I also have a strategy for losing weight. More exercise, count calories. More exercise is hard because I lack time where I can go to the gym without the kids. I think the best time of the day for me is first thing in the morning. No excuses of something coming up. And also it feels nice to have one thing checked off as accomplished.

So if I can get to bed earlier, wake up earlier, then I can make it to the gym. So ideally, I'd go to bed at 10pm (hah!) and get up at 6am and hit the gym for an hour and come back showered and happy and ready to get the kids up and fed etc.

So that's something to shoot for. I'm so far away from it now. Bedtime is 11:30 nowadays (better than midnight not to long ago) and wake up time is somewhere between 7am to 8am. Mostly 7:30am, I think but that's after half an hour of trying to get up.

Most days I don't get a shower in the morning either.

So I've just been strategizing. Not getting anything concrete done yet. I think it's pre-day 1 really at this point.