Have Messes?

One day I will learn to be okay with my messes...

....... I was broken and I needed mending (part of a journal entry of mine). "Nothing could ever possibly repair my messes" I thought to myself while picking up the last set of books and magazines I hadn't even gone through in a while. Why am I holding on to all of this if I haven't used it or gone through it for the past few days    weeks   months... years?! I already cleaned, why does it still look messy?! .......

To my surprise, I learned a big lesson that one day....

Do you have messes?

Yeah, we all do.

Nobody is perfect— even lovers of all things organized have that junk drawer or magazine collection that hasn't been touched in a while. If you ask me, I'd say that a lot of times we struggle for that sensation of "perfectness" when we spot clean here and there. But, are we really acknowledging that it is something that has to be done constantly, or are we getting upset every time we have to do it? Think about it. There is an array of reasons why we are getting stressed out and upset when we have to clean. But, there is only one reason why we still have to clean all the time. Now, you may be asking yourself "what's this got to do with fixing my messes". Here's the thing: We have to learn to be okay with our messes. Simple as that.

Okay with our messes?

Yes!


Picture the last time you had to pick up, wash the dishes, clean the kitchen, sweep, mop, and all that squeaky clean jazz we do. The house smelled fresh, the linens were diffusing that yummy Downy smell, BUT... The house still didn't appear to be so in order.

So what went wrong?

My only guess? We most probably left out the organization process of the messes when we picked up all of those magazines off the table and transferred them to the desktop. AND, we most likely have been forgetting to do that for quite some time, and now it is piled up.

Get it now?

Simply, clean, pick up and put away. Don't leave things hanging out else where simply because you've cleaned the other side of the house. We have to learn to let go in order to progress into more organized spaces.

So, lesson Learned Today: Don't fight with your "messes" after the house is squeaky clean and smelling good, deal with it on the spot. Cleaning AND organizing is something we will never be done with—it requires time and effort; however, we can indeed minimize as we go. Therefore, make peace with that.

-XOXO-

Steph