Peace of Mind Organizing

The disruptive nature of disorder

9 November 2009

I’ve always been open on this blog about how things can get out of control in my house. Even though I have homes for almost all of my things (which isn’t to say there aren’t storage areas that need to be weeded out…I’ll be blogging more about that in coming weeks), I have a hard time putting stuff away. And when things get busy? Forget about it.

Once you start leaving stuff out, other stuff naturally joins it. Clutter attracts clutter. It’s amazing.

I’ve recognized that my driving force is ease. I want things to be easy. I like to glide through my life with ease. But when I don’t put stuff away for a few days, I start tripping over the stuff. Literally and figuratively.

This weekend I was going to create some ease by putting stuff away. But I didn’t make that a priority, so I’m tripping again. And I have a busy week with clients and meetings, plus my husband is out of town. For some people, husbands being out of town makes things easier. But when my husband’s gone, I really miss him. He works from home and is a constant presence. And he does things like cook and help feed and walk the dogs.

So it’s not an easy week.

I do love it when things get like this, because it puts me squarely in the shoes of my clients. Here I am facing a busy week, with no large chunks of time available. How am I supposed to clean up? I preach to my clients all the time that you don’t need to wait for a large chunk of time to start creating order. You can do it one small pocket of time after another.

So the challenge I’m giving myself this week is to create ease in my life by creating order a little at a time. I’m going to grab those 15- and 30-minute pockets as they become available. And I’ll put stuff away and weed stuff out and make life easier.

I’d take a picture of my office and post it here, but two things stop me:

1. Embarrassment
2. My camera is upstairs and I’m downstairs and I want to get this posted.

But trust me, my office doesn’t look like the office of someone who craves ease and order.

At the end of the week, I hope to be able to blog that I’m back on easy street again!

Tagged with: clutter, disorder, time management

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