The common
denominator that professional organizers come across with clients is too much
stuff and the clutter is because there stuff has no home. This apply to physical things, such as paper,
clothing, books but even in the digital world, emails, voicemail, text. Yet studies have shown that 80% of the time
we use 20% of our favorite things.
So less is
best? Yes! Too much of anything affects us.
When we have a lot and the things have no home, we waste time searching
for things. The average American spends
6 weeks a year looking for things. This
is stressful! And I don’t know about you but, I rather be using that time for
fun things.
Some make
the analogy of disorder to being overweight.
The weight puts stress on our organs the added weight begins to affect
other parts of our body. That is why doctors
want us to be leaner in order to be healthier.
Likewise in
the home or office, we need to start cutting back slowly because living with
less clutter does help us manage our daily stress. Not only that, when we begin to give up
objects or things that are clutter, we really end up gaining something better. Better health, relationships, time for what
we love to do.
How so? Studies have shown that clutter is a
distraction, they say for each piece of paper around us it’s a distraction 10
times. This begins to wear at the brain, constant stimulation produces stress
and zaps us of energy.
