What’s YOUR clutter costing your mental load?
Most of us are busy.
Parents or caregivers of people with special needs or disabilities are exponentially busier than others.
So much is out of their control.
- And being better organized is a powerful tactic to take back SOME control.
When I interviewed with my apparel patternmaking teacher, after lying to her face that I’d do 5 hours a day of homework, she showed me her kitchen. Opening every cabinet, with a smile, she said “A place for everything and everything in its place!”
People who sew are often incredibly organized. They know the value of expediency. Every minute counts. Every hand movement counts.
In factories, they time how long it takes the best stitcher to make a garment, then expect everyone else to be near that speed.
The Gap patternmaker (who told me about my teacher) was only allowed to put ONE curve in the outseam of a pants pattern, to increase speed of construction.
- One area most of us can become more organized, EASILY, is to set aside 5-10 minutes a month to ruthlessly unsubscribe from email lists.
If you use the “Hell yea!” or “Hell no!” sorting method to decide who to disconnect from, it’ll be pretty easy.
We often don’t register the full cost that clutter, including electronic, has on our mental load.
- What’s an area of YOUR life you’ve been planning to get more organized?
- What’s ONE thing that consistently irritates you, that you’d eliminate by getting more organized?
—Julie
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