So, I've been putting off going through my mail for a couple of months and it has just been building up.  Add to it a bunch of work papers from some trips to San Diego for work and you have a stack of paperwork about 4 feet high if you pile it all on top of each other.

 This week I've been going through it and getting it organized.  It's been a long time coming, but I think I have finally accepted the fact that this is something I need to do. 

The first thing I did to start was to acknowledge that I was in resistance to going through all the papers.  As funny as it sounds, it did make me feel better to actually tell myself out loud that I was resistant  to organizing the papers.  After that I felt quite a bit better about the whole thing and it made it easier for me to start.

 The second thing I did was divided all the papers up into a work pile and a personal pile.  I took care of the work pile on Monday and Tuesday.  It amazed me how many papers that I had kept that I don't actually need.

 About an hour ago I started on my personal stack which consisted of a lot of unopened mail.  Some of it dates back to 2008.  Yikes!!!  Today when I got home I was tired, so I decided to take a nap.  I woke up from my "nap" four hours later at 10pm.  

In the past, I would have been upset because I would think oh I have to go back to sleep in order to wake up early for work.  Recently, I've realized that I can get by just fine the next day at work if I stay up.

 Anyways, after waking up from the nap I realized that if I just went back to sIeep then I might just keep putting off.  As a result, I got up and started working on the "personal" stack of mail.  Tonight, I just went through it all.  I threw away all the junk mail, and then I opened the rest of the mail.  I put the envelopes in one pile and all the statements in another pile.  Then I called it a night.

 Tomorrow, I will go about organizing the mail.  I find that's it's easier for me to start working on things when I don't put pressure on myself to finish it all in one sitting, especially if it's a task that is going to take 8-12 hours.