Sometimes the hardest thing to do is make a decision. When a choice becomes complicated and too difficult, we often just delay making any. You’d rather think about it or handle it…tomorrow. Procrastination is always the easiest option, but indeed the most dangerous. For instance, if you can’t decide where something goes and you just put it anywhere, and you do that every day, you will be faced with overwhelming piles of things everywhere. If you have no specific place for the incoming mail to land, it will find it’s way onto every horizontal counter and pile into frightening paper towers. It’s a potential nightmare that can be paralyzing. Lack of decision-making is a perfect storm for not only inviting clutter but feeding it.
We are all guilty now and then of throwing a jacket over a chair, tossing an unread magazine or newspaper on a counter top, or using the staircase to deposit an eventual journey upstairs. These scenarios are very common when we simply lack the time to put things back in their proper places. But eventually, if they have specific places where they belong, they ultimately can return to their home with little duress. Easy and doable.
The problems arise when you don’t have designated places for specific things. You must decide where your things land. And if you marry lack of decision-making with lack of time, you’ve got a full blown crisis on your hand. Clutter thrives when you have no organizational systems in motion. Anywhere is not a place. Create a home for all your things. Pick a consistent place for the mail to land, keys to hang, laundry to drop, and the grab and go to live, so you can always find them when you need to.
Decide to decide…any decision is better than NO decision. What do you think? Can you decide?
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