All of that, especially making the bed, plus be sure to keep the room clear of actual garbage. I see at least a couple of soda cups.

Also, consider if you can declutter. It will make it a lot easier to keep things neat if you have less stuff. Are there games or gaming equipment you don’t use any more? Clothes you don’t wear? It’s a small room without a lot of storage so things probably end up in stacks and on the floor because you don’t have adequate places to put them away. Having less stuff to put away will help a lot. Just rearranging stuff will not help.

You might find a book called Unf*ck Your Habitat to be helpful. Book

You have a nice room, with nice furniture.. Is there room to move some around a bit? If you want to put up a room plan, maybe we could come up with a better way...The reason is that a bed against the wall never gets made. It's really so much easier if you can walk around it. A made bed (even if that just consist of shaking out a duvet) always looks more organized.

The other idea is that things off the floor will make it feel bigger. Your cd's, dvd's can go on a shelf above your desk area.

Your desk area can be improved, too, but an easy way to make it all appear more organized first, is to utilize some cord management ideas...velcro or the flexible tubes from Ikea or Amazon.

This is just a start so you can "see" some progress.

You need a tall bookcase or else a bookshelf that will hang on the wall--everything is squashed down to the floor. That will help a LOT.

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A Meditation on Making the Bed

Before I turned 40, I refused to make my bed. It seemed a waste of time, since I just got back into it again, and I rebelled against the idea that making the bed was held up as being morally superior.

I was fierce about it--I even told my MIL that I wanted her to never again make my bed when she came in my house (for one thing, she made it wrong), because it made me feel judged, and I didn't want that dynamic in our relationship.

Then...

I started wanting to hang out with my husband while I was folding the laundry in the evening. He was in the bedroom, where the computer was, so I went in there and tried to fold on the bed. It was awkward with the sheets and blankets all rumped, so I smoothed them out.

I did this for a while, then decided that it was sort of stupid to "make" the bed right before I was going to get into it. And, I'd discovered that this wide, flat surface was sometimes useful, and wouldn't it be nice to have that handy earlier in the day?

In fact, I found it easier and more pleasant to get dressed! I didn't lose my white undies in the rumpled sheets, and I could lay the outfit out on the bed as I was pulling my clothes out of the closet/dresser.

So I started smoothing out the covers in the morning. I didn't really think of it as "making the bed." I thought of it as "straightening and smoothing."

I didn't do any fancy tucking, or arranging of pillows. I didn't tuck anything in. I just pulled the top sheet and the blanket straight, and smoothed them out mostly.

That seemed like less work than "making the bed," and it got me what I needed.

I did this for a while. And then I discovered that on days I didn't "straighten and smooth," I felt more anxious; life felt a little out of control; my bedroom felt "itchy" and "disordered."

I also discovered that it felt more restful to get into bed. AND I discovered that I had actually been "straightening" everything at night anyway, and now that I didn't have to do that, getting in bed was simply a matter of sliding in.

Now I "straighten and smooth" everyday. I've realized it takes very, very little time. (I dare you to "straighten and smooth" every day for a week, and time it each day; the first day might be longer, partly because if you're starting from several days' worth, the tangles might be worse, and then you develop efficiencies of movement that you might not even realize can be achieved).

I've even gotten to the point that I actually call it "making the bed." My MIL probably wouldn't consider it to be that; because I don't fold the covers up over the pillow nicely, etc. But I don't need or want that, actually; my bed feels MORE welcoming because the pillows and blanket don't look like they need to be "unwrapped" to be used; I just need to fold back the corner and slide in.

So, I would like to encourage you to consider this challenge: Every morning for one week, "straighten and smooth." That's it--just pull the sheet up mostly, and the blanket up mostly, and straighten out any folded-over parts. Do it right after you come back from the bathroom and before you get dressed.

See how it makes you feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzLzbd-zT4

Good job Jacob! Organizing and keeping a room tidy is learned behavior. I know I was taught how to keep my room tidy but rebelled once I was expected to do it on my own so actually had to learn how all over again as an adult. Before organizing and tidying comes purging though. I hope a lot of stuff is leaving the room.

Figure out a place to keep once worn but not dirty clothes. This is a universal problem. Leaving them on floor, chair or bed is messy. I put hooks on the back of a door for mine. Some people have a separate laundry hamper for them.

Once the stuff seems to be sorted out make a mess again. Empty the closet and drawers and get rid of the stuff in there you forgot about and don't need to keep. Put the keepers back in. Now you have some space for the things that are out but aren't used constantly. The backs of closets and drawers collect junk you don't want to keep. Start with a single drawer so you don't get a huge mess when you are figuring out what you want to keep. You don't need to keep clothes that don't fit, are damaged or you won't wear. You don't need to keep every old tee shirt to wear for pajamas.

Don't buy any new furniture until you have figured out what you are going to keep and how it is best contained. Use cardboard boxes to keep things sorted into groups for now. Under bed bins could hold a lot of things out of sight too. Until you've figured out what you are keeping it is a bad idea to buy organizing things. I knew this and still ended up with extra bins and such.

Good grief! Clean up your room.

Don't make me have to come up there!

For inspiration you might read, "Pigsty", by Mark Teague. In it little Wendell Fultz deals with the pigs that inhabit his room and live on his unmake messy bed.

It is a darling little book and my grandson enjoyed it very much. He has a very messy room. But he is also very young.

well, while we're sharing videos, I'll give you this one! by PJ Eby, a Mind Hacking instructor

It's about how to motivate yourself to do things you don't want to do.

I return to it over and over. And I can tell you that this technique works.

It's basically about redefining the task by focusing on the enjoyment of the end result instead of the work itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8__3JATQIM&list=LL_PtBmD-gamoIC00Q1sbrSQ&t=2s&index=3

(and you desperately need infrastructure--you just don't have places to put things. I think you could buy a bookcase or a wall shelf right away)

Do you have a hamper, and is it in a place you can get to?

Do you have a file cabinet or file box for papers?

(even just having a box into which you can put "all the papers, so they're in one place and not buried or ripped, and I'll dig out what I need later" can be really powerful)