Getting a grip on life
Oct. 30th, 2003 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raganiWhy am I suddenly having the success at organizing stuff in my life that has eluded me before?
Ordinarily it is spring cleaning, not fall cleaning that people expect to focus on, but for some reason this is the season for me to get caught-up.
Yesterday at work a coworker was observing to my supervisor that there was a clear line on which side of the office we share is mine and which is hers. She scolded him for saying it, but I am sure she feels the same way. They are both confessed neat-freaks, and I am not so I took the comment without malice. What annoyed me more was that I was in the middle of cleaning it when he made the observation, making the progress I made look like it was in response to his comment and not because I had finally managed to tackle it on my own.
Hopefully the cleaner work area will help me to focus on actually getting work done!
Home is coming along as well, and I attribute some of that to the support I am getting from my boyfriend. He recently confessed to me that he was tired of being disorganized and wanted to change that. I was encouraged to hear this, even more so when it was followed up with time put into cleaning the common areas this past weekend. Still, I was surprised when he responded with enthusiasm to the declutter instructions I printed out from FlyLady. This is a far cry from when he told me that I am one of the most obsessive people he knows (this was in the context of cleaning house).
A concept that I have found asserted in Feng Shui is that clutter is stuck energy. Releasing some of that stuck energy will free it up and help you release more (order begets more order). Although I have some reservations about popular Feng Shui, this concept made a lot of sense to me. It also makes sense that clutter can have a negative effect on a person. Even just having a storage unit and other "hidden" clutter is emotional baggage that will weigh on a person's psyche. I have been wanting to rid myself of the clutter in my life for some time, but now, after two horrific moves, more so than ever.
I hope that the reduction in clutter will release that stuck energy and allow me to got a grip on the rest of my life. It is already helping raise my spirits, which cannot be a bad thing either way.
Ordinarily it is spring cleaning, not fall cleaning that people expect to focus on, but for some reason this is the season for me to get caught-up.
Yesterday at work a coworker was observing to my supervisor that there was a clear line on which side of the office we share is mine and which is hers. She scolded him for saying it, but I am sure she feels the same way. They are both confessed neat-freaks, and I am not so I took the comment without malice. What annoyed me more was that I was in the middle of cleaning it when he made the observation, making the progress I made look like it was in response to his comment and not because I had finally managed to tackle it on my own.
Hopefully the cleaner work area will help me to focus on actually getting work done!
Home is coming along as well, and I attribute some of that to the support I am getting from my boyfriend. He recently confessed to me that he was tired of being disorganized and wanted to change that. I was encouraged to hear this, even more so when it was followed up with time put into cleaning the common areas this past weekend. Still, I was surprised when he responded with enthusiasm to the declutter instructions I printed out from FlyLady. This is a far cry from when he told me that I am one of the most obsessive people he knows (this was in the context of cleaning house).
A concept that I have found asserted in Feng Shui is that clutter is stuck energy. Releasing some of that stuck energy will free it up and help you release more (order begets more order). Although I have some reservations about popular Feng Shui, this concept made a lot of sense to me. It also makes sense that clutter can have a negative effect on a person. Even just having a storage unit and other "hidden" clutter is emotional baggage that will weigh on a person's psyche. I have been wanting to rid myself of the clutter in my life for some time, but now, after two horrific moves, more so than ever.
I hope that the reduction in clutter will release that stuck energy and allow me to got a grip on the rest of my life. It is already helping raise my spirits, which cannot be a bad thing either way.
