When do your piles of information and possessions cease to inform and be useful, and instead become an anxious burden? The answer: when you have too much excess and can’t access what you need. Some like to call them piles of organized chaos. Stuff is stuff, I say, whether we accumulate it at home or at work. It is funny how stuff multiplies like bunnies, and funnier how all this stuff attracts dust – hmm… dust bunnies.
Excess versus access. Information is power, but I’d like to think that “access” to your information/possessions is much more powerful.
The three most common reasons my clients give me about why they cannot let go is:
- I might need it one day.
- It’s brand new, I’ve hardly used it.
- But, it’s a gift from…
What I suggest is to imagine how it would feel to walk into your workspace or home and have it clear, uncluttered and organized. Do you feel empowered or entrapped?
Stop procrastinating! Your time is too valuable to spend it anxiously deliberating over your piles of things trying to access your stuff. Some people go out and make a duplicate or triplicate purchase rather than face the daunting search in their endless piles to find the item they already own. How much money have you wasted in duplicating your purchases because you can not find something?
…and NO! Please do not straighten up before you give a Professional Organizer a call (just another procrastination tactic).
A Professional Organizer wants to see what your existing habits are (how and where you stock-pile things). In knowing this, we can now work together to identify behaviours and habits that have gotten you to this point. Then we begin to work on modifying them. We work together introducing different habits into your daily routine, so you will learn how to get organized and stay organized.
So your next steps are to:
- Determine whether your piles of excess are becoming anxious burdens for you.
- Acknowledge that your time is much more important than the stress you are experiencing when you procrastinate on tackling your piles.
- Admit to yourself that you are not an expert in everything.
Contact Out of Chaos Professional Organizing Solutions at info@outofchaos.ca or 604-813-8189.
