Break it down into lots and lots of small steps. For instance with the tidying thing - just try tidying one room to start with and then aim to maintain it in a state of tidiness. Once you've proved to yourself that actually it's easy to keep a room tidy once you've got it that way, then start on another room, and so on.
The trouble is we tend to overwhelm ourselves with huge goals that we want to achieve in a short period of time, which is impossible, and because it's impossible to do it in large chunks, we give up.
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