I'd make lists; buy a notebook and start a "project". One of my projects is called "Operation Self-Care". It's a lifetime thing, you don't get perfect and get to stop, go on to something else.

Figure out what you are good at and like doing and then figure out how to put that into use helping you with other stuff you aren't so good at or don't enjoy? I'm very creative and made a "game" where I made a collage on a 3 x 4 foot piece of poster board, pictures from magazines of all sorts of "chores"/areas of my home I needed to work on. Then I got gaming dice (8-sided/numbered) and named 8 areas (bathrooms, kitchen, "free", dollar store, filing, general cleaning, cats, etc.) and made up my gameboard (day glo numbers delineating each area :-) and each morning, first thing, I'd roll my dice and then do whatever, for 30 minutes! The "free" number meant I didn't have to do anything that day and the "dollar store" one meant I had to go up to my local dollar store and find ONE item, buy it and bring it back and use it do whatever.

I love going into stores, grocery stores especially, and challenging myself with thoughts such as, "If I could only buy one thing, what would I buy" and finding it for myself. It's like a treasure hunt! So, you can see how the dollar store/chore thing appealed to me.

I really like school so sometimes I structure what I have to do as part of a "course" and find books to go with the general subject (I love to read :-) and I'll start blogs on specific subjects, etc.

I had the "Ides Health Project" going between 15 March and 15 April as I was seeing my doctor for my quarterly appointment and a physical the 25th of April and wanted to lose a little weight and take all my meds properly and be in "good" shape. I like shorter projects as I figure I can do something for a day, week, month.

Right now, I'm going to travel to the Caribbean in February 2013 so I'm starting to get ready as I want to do a lot of walking when there and I hate walking/am horrible at it so figure I had better get that to the front of my mind. I do a lot of work on http://sparkpeople.com and the Daily Challenge, just kind of jolly myself into making sure things that I say I want to do stay in the "to-do" portion of my brain, front and center. I've let go of being "perfect" at doing stuff, I start new stuff and don't do much, quit then start over somewhere else; it's all good, I'm moving forward bit by bit but mostly, I'm enjoying the ride!