It seems that I am not alone in trying to declutter and clean - thank you everyone. I used to let the state of my spaces (physical and mental) wear me down. It became increasingly difficult to focus on and complete tasks, and then everything would downward spiral from there. I was lost even thinking about where to begin and where to end so generally I did nothing. The trouble with doing nothing is that you don;'t know when you're finished. The solution for me came about quite accidentally for me - doing something was infinately better than doing nothing. Now I don't plan and schedule a lot of "organizing" activities - I just start doing one. Even a simple thing like cleaning out the magazine rack in the bathroom. I start by taking the stack of periodicals and just throw out the ones I haven't looked at for 4 weeks. I don't save any just because I 'Might" do something from it - I haven't done it in 4 weeks, it likely isn't going to get done: I don't fool myself. Now one thing is out of the way. Next, I may just bend over to pickup a piece of clothing from the floor and it just seems foolish to only pick up one so I start picking up the rest. Simple, but effective for me. And at this point that's good enough for me