Every time I see someone say, “I’ll put it here for now.”, I cringe. But every time, they say no to that thought and go the extra step and put away that piece of paper, or deal with that that email, they become more organized. Every time you put off by “putting it here for now”, you weaken yourself and make it so much harder to get organized and find what you need the next time you look for something. Your energy just gets completely zapped when you try to get back to being organized.
Organization is made up of many small decisions. We gradually develop habits of what we can realistically handle and what we should say no to because our life becomes chaotic when we hit overload. As we work towards getting organized and make decisions about what is necessary to keep, what is really trivial and can be purged, we become so much stronger.
Since no one really is perfect, we don’t need to become discouraged when our office or our homes get a little out of control. We are learning how to do things differently and change will come with slips or mistakes, and enough of those will eventually teach us onto our way to success. Growth is always slow, but if we keep our eyes on our vision of organization, we will see the results.
