Don’t think peace of mind only comes when you have fixed up all your problems and finished all your business. All your worrying, all your striving and struggling, has it ever got you where you really want to be? You can’t control the world and change it the way you would like it. Therefore you can only find peace of mind and achieve the meaning of life when by embracing the imperfections of life. How do you do that? By knowing that imperfection is in the nature of the world. So make peace with imperfection.
Ajahn Brahm
Mindfulbalance 
I struggle with the messy kitchen, which is a constant with my ADD partner. I remind myself that it means that someone else lives here and I would much rather have dishes in the sink than to not have him in my life.