Over the past couple of months, I’ve been struggling with a few annoying problems:
The printer lives in a drawer under the TV, so I can only use it from my laptop (the cable won’t reach the PC), and I have to crouch halfway down to print anything. Printing is unpleasant!
I have two desks standing parallel to each other, which means I need two different chairs. Unpleasant! And I also can’t reach things on one desk while sitting at the other. Unpleasant!
Moving one of the desks isn’t an option, because I wouldn’t know where to put all the stuff on it.
Meanwhile, there’s a side table next to them with an old desktop on top. At some point Anya used it, but she hasn’t touched it in months. It either needs to be sold, dismantled, or repurposed as a server — something should be done with it, but that takes time and decisions. Yet if I freed up the side table, I could move the printer onto it, shove the desk clutter into a drawer, push the desk closer to form an L-shape, make video recording much easier — and even get rid of the extra chair altogether.
So what solved all these problems? Realizing that I could just move the desktop somewhere out of sight and deal with it later, instead of letting it bug me every single day. Is there a risk that “out of sight, out of mind”? Well, even when it was in sight, it didn’t really occupy my mind — it just got under my skin!
Sometimes it’s worth stepping away from chasing the perfect solution and just going with one that’s good enough. And of course, catching yourself in automatic thoughts like mine: “To free the side table, I absolutely have to deal with the computer first.”