I don’t enjoy picking up my messes. Probably most people don’t. But they force themselves.

Sometimes I set my 15-minute timer to encourage myself to make a small dent in my paper piles. Fifteen minutes isn’t very long, is it?

Yet I’m easily distracted into doing other things. For example, picking up a newspaper clipping encourages me to surf over to the website discussed therein. I don’t know how to stop myself.