Is Clutter Robbing You Of Your Time?
February 9th, 2007 (Cleaning)
Clutter is one of the greatest enemies of efficiency and a thief of time - and that includes your time! I’m often asked, “How do you get so much done?” The answer is that I hit the ground in the morning running and “doing”, and plan so I don’t get hung up hunting for information, tools, and help.
There is a great frustration in having to (or waiting for someone else to) sort through piles of junk to get to the action. We end up unfulfilled and unsatisfied, bogged in the non-rewarding junk preliminaries.
Clutter makes every job harder and makes cleaning take forever. Any project we tackle, from building to disassembling, will be slowed, dampened, and diluted if we constantly have to fight our way to it in the midst of clutter.
If junk is taking up your good storage room it means you have to reach further and dig deeper to get the tool, book, suitcase, shirt, etc., you need. “Getting something out,” instead of being a few-second job, often ends up a twenty-minute search-and-rescue mission. We can’t progress when we spend all our time pausing and pawing to find the “good” in among all that clutter.