I was given a file cabinet shortly after I moved. I’d been without a file cabinet for a number of years, so I was totally out of the habit.

I’ve been wanting to set it up, but perfectionism kept getting in the way. If I didn’t know exactly how I was going to set up the files, and if it wasn’t the perfect system, then I wasn’t going to do anything. So I’ve sat here with an empty file cabinet and a couple of piles of paper on my desk that needed to be filed.

Finally, a couple of days ago, I said to myself, “Progress is better than perfection.” So I went over to the first pile of papers, grabbed the first piece of random paper off the top, and made a file for it. And did this with each piece of paper in the pile. If there was already a file where it fit, I’d put it there. Otherwise, I’d create a new file. I just kept putting these random files one behind the other in no particular order. (I’ll sort that out later.)

For now, I have papers in files and no longer have piles on my desk.

Significant progress has been made! I’m quite pleased.