Sometimes life just gets too messy
What can I say? I do like to live with a certain mixture of order and
chaos. The chaos is part of the drive toward creativity. The order
is part of the need to be able to find the things you want to
play/work/create with. I usually have some idea what piles contain the
things I am looking for, but there comes a time when I lose
things. Things that I need and want.
So I have to clean my office.
I do try to keep my mess contained into a smallish room. That actually
does help me get to the point of cleaning and organizing more
often. Big spaces take longer to become unmanageable. Small spaces
need it more often.
So today–my day off–became clean the office day.
The picture above comes after I had done some work (that is where I am
standing taking the picture and beyond the reach of the lens). I start
in the areas where things need to go and I try to leave the more
important work area last. I have learned that if I do the work area
first, I perpetuate the mess by just moving it from in front of me to
hiding behind me. So if I leave the big mess until last I will more
likely get all the cleaning done I need to do.
The stuff on the floor in the picture is not usually there (that’s
where the chair sits), but all that was on the floor already. I just
slid it over to consolidate the mess.
Time for lunch. Then back to it.
And the wonderful thing is that I feel so much better when I get done.
Now if I can only remember that while the mess slowly accumulates.
Just like life. If only I can remember that …
