My bedroom is a mess but I keep getting distracted and easily overwhelmed. What are your methods for overcoming this? I get over it eventually, but it takes way too long to get to that point.

@Peachy: You're absolutely right. My energy levels haven't been the best these past few years, but I think I can manage developing good habits with cleaning if I pace myself.

My mother would constantly complain about how filthy our house was despite it always being extremely clean. I feel that it influenced my negative relationship with keeping my own living space maintained. I noticed I'm very organized and tidy in every other aspect of my life, and when I'm staying at someone's house as well. Now how strange is that?

@owl: Knowing me I'd take the lazy person's way out and move junk aside to get to the snacks without cleaning anything.

@Ixora: Ah yes, I would like to downsize the number of things I own. Maybe you can knit a rug from your hair?

@Peachy: owl is a genius.

@Totalanimefan: That is true! It's too bad that poor mental health tends to impede people from doing the things that would help improve it. It's a relentless cycle.

@Kira: I need to do some more letting go of stuff soon.
If only I knew how to knit

I just start at one section and work there. Figure which of the things in that section need to be kept or gotten rid of. Which items need to be kept in that area or moved to another section. Make many small piles of the different group types, fanning all around the area I am working in.

I will usually start cleaning up when it's gotten fairly cluttered. However... I've found that cleaning up slowly, and not rushing myself during the process helps me hate it less.
Not to mention it starts to feel good, knowing that you’re taking care of yourself.