February 2026 - Stopping and Starting?

I have been talking to people this last week about the ADHD & Clutter workshop that happens every quarter, and a big topic was about the common experience of summoning up motivation and making a bit impact and then something happens or time runs out and it just never feels the same again and you never go back to the job 😫

This seems to happen across people's lives - not just clutter related - a lot of bigger jobs or projects that are not possible to conclude within one sitting can feel so hard to come back to even when interest and motivation was high before.

There seems to be lots of reasons for this such as:

• ADHD

• It wasn't your "mission" in the first place

• You were motivated by something such as guilt or shame

• You have done the worst of it and so it no longer feels important

• You got bored

And the most common (which is often paired with another one) is that you just didn't have a specific enough goal in mind. And by goal I don't mean like those annoying work goals, but I do mean that you need to know what you're aiming for to be able to get there.

If you're anything like me you'll need to be really specific with yourself. So, instead of "clear that space", you need to know why you're doing it otherwise the stuff will creep back, you will lose interest, you will stop half way through etc.

What unfinished project can you rekindle this week and why is it important?