Mental Clutter as an impediment

It seems that tackling physical clutter can be obstructed by the existence of mental clutter. I was wondering why I sometimes freeze up when attempting to deal with some piece of clutter in my house. It's like being stopped behind a physical barrier, in waiting mode. Wanting to move on it and yet feeling stuck in time or in a holding pattern. Not exactly fear, just a disconcerting stasis that prohibits action of any sort.

It's a creepy feeling, when you look at it, and possibly peculiar to me rather than universal. In any case, I'd like to up my game by getting past this stuck point.

Mental clutter is similar to physical clutter, in that it is composed of unexamined or undealt with thoughts, past decisions, current worries, incomplete communications, you name it. It steals your attention and your will. You hide it from yourself sometimes, and yet it hangs in your mental closet, taking up space and energy. There are hundreds of books, theories and practices that people have developed to help with clearing up mental 'hangups'.

Rather than jump to one of these, I'm going to start by recognizing the incoming flow of mental clutter. I'm defining clutter here as thoughts or feelings inappropriate to what's going on. Out of left field stuff - like the stuck feeling I described above. The first step to dealing with anything is to admit that it's there, so let's notice what's there.

Wish me luck!