Today I came home at noon from a short trip, cold, wet and grumpy because it's snowing, but temperature just above freezing point. When I got in I stopped for a minute and looked around the hallway and into the kitchen. There is a change! Hallway looks much better than one month ago and the kitchen, too! There's lots of free floor! So no matter what I'll manage today or tomorrow, NaClYoHo has been a great help in leveling down the mess in these two areas
Oh yay, I'm so glad! Yeah, sometimes you don't notice just what a difference it makes until you're out of the house for a bit, and for some people that isn't happening very often these days. The first time I scrubbed down my bathroom sink in my old apartment, it went basically from yellow-grey to white, and every time I walked into the bathroom for a week I was shocked by it.
My condo, I must say, looks cleaner in parts, but overall still doesn't look "tidy", and that's okay. I know the changes I've made, and some of the tidiness will come in time, but also just...whether or not it looks better, if it feels good, that matters too.
It's tough for people with ADHD to envision the future (also tough for people with aphantasia, it turns out) but for me, I've done this enough to know that while I can't necessarily see HOW what I've done will help me months from now, there will be moments in 2024 where I stop and think, "Hey, thanks, Past Sam, that really helped." The hardest thing is to do something you don't want to do when you also can't imagine how it will benefit you, so it's important to really mark those moments where you do see benefit, remember them and try to keep them with you. The work we do matters even when we can't measure exactly how.