THE REASONS PEOPLE FAIL AT BECOMING ORGANIZED
Becoming organized is like starting a new diet. You have ups and downs, failures and successes. Most people admit that becoming organized is hard. Beginning anything new is hard. Do you remember your first day of kindergarten? What about the first day you put your kindergartener on the bus or dropped them off at school? That was hard, yet you plunged through it and it became easier, each and everyday. The same is true with organization. The more you do it, the easier it gets and the more you?ll want to continue.
The majority of people who are not organized have a problem with commitment. Like in a relationship, once an obstacle appears or the other person desires to take the relationship further, the other person backs off and makes a dash for the first exit. The same occurrence happens with organization. You hit a snag with your first task. Maybe you don?t have enough folders or storage space is an issue or a typical problem is there isn?t enough money to become organized. Once that happens, the commitment to becoming organized is gone.
People also believe that once organized, things will just stay that way. But the next week, things are already in disarray and the person just isn?t clear on what has happened. Being organized means making lifestyle changes. This is difficult for most people because that means they just can?t come in the front door and throw their mail and keys and other documents onto the table by the door and just leave them there until later. It means instead of putting them there on the table, you hang your keys on the hook by the door, take the mail to a prepared inbox on the kitchen counter and go through the mail while dinner is cooking on the stove. It?s take time to get into a routine, but it?s like any other routine, it takes time and it takes making a change in your lifestyle.
One final reason that people fail to become organized is procrastination. It is so much easier to say ?I?ll do that tomorrow? and go on with your life for the day or the next week. If a person is going to become organized, they must stop procrastinating and begin today or otherwise, they will never get to it and ultimately fail.
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