On Saying Yes to Mess and Other Denials

I am sitting in a room that is far from clean at the moment, avoiding the packing that will turn my room into a disaster. But this article sounds like just an easy way of letting ourselves off the hook when we don't want to deal. "I don't want to clean up my mess so I'll just say my mess is healthy." "I don't want to exercise so I'll just say dieting makes me fat." "I don't want to study because studying makes me do worse in school."

Time to clean up my room...