This may not be right for you, because you mentioned not wanting assistance. But what helps me are people.
If I’m putting off a task, I’ll invite someone over or FaceTime them. If I can’t make myself clean out my fridge, or closet, or car, I’ll have someone come over and for a lot of the tasks I prefer not to have them physically help. Having someone with me motivates me to actually do it while they watch and we talk, instead of me getting overwhelmed and quitting. If I’m too overwhelmed by making decisions to get something done, I ask someone to tell me what to do. I also do the same thing for other people.
I suggest massive ingestion of caffeine...🤣🤣🤣 JK. But it might not hurt to buy a bottle of 100 mg caffeine capsules and take TWO every morning.
Start by doing the LITTLE things you can manage. Once you see that you CAN do a small thing, you'll have a building block to go on. A bowl of jello doesn't go into your tummy all at once. It goes in ONE little bite at a time.
Feelings of being overwhelmed, and feeling like everything is too massive to handle, start because you TELL yourself it is too massive and you TELL yourself you just can't do it.
Start with the fridge. Once you see that the expired food is cleaned out, sit back and congratulate yourself! You'll have actually DONE something that you were dreading.
I was exhausted this morning, for example, and I really, really felt as though I could have a lovely LONG sleep-in, but I had to get up by 7 a.m. to go the food pantry and fill up my car with food for my neighbors! I DREAD getting up and getting out and doing that, especially when I am so tired. But I know I have to whip myself into doing it or my neighbors will be let down.
Self discipline is something that comes to you over time, and builds up like a weak muscle that you've never exercised.
I have faith that you can do this!
Don't forget that clean outs can be done by charitable organizations like the Salvation Army. They might actually send someone over to pick stuff up!
This is similar to my situation although I invited some of it (in my case I was a bit of a hoarder). For work when I feel up to it I start the job, yesterday I just kept feeling exhausted so I stopped but kept returning to it over and over, I probably got an hour of work out of myself in 4 hours of time. For clearing out, the same sort of approach I try and hit one spot and even if I can just identify one thing, I get rid but I keep revisiting the same place over and over. If anybody says is this all you've done? Yes it is do you want to give me a hand?
Tell them to get their stuff out or you will start charging them or get rid of it.. er are they making you store it for them or did they give it to you? I have the same problem too my mom kept giving me stuff i don't want and don't have space for.. i finally had to start telling her No.
"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all." – Norman Vincent Peale
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. - Chanakya
