reforming clutterbug

[anotheranon]

Instead of starting the year with a new sewing project, I'm going through old files on a search and destroy mission, in a concerted (really, truly, honestly) effort to finally get organized.

I don't enjoy the process - it's tedious and time-consuming. I'm also butting into my preconceived notions of "being organized" as meaning "dull, uncreative, anal list-maker". Intellectually I know the latter isn't true but I think at the root of it all is this stupid fear that having a place for everything and everything in its place would suck all the spontaneity out of life.

I have ample proof that this isn't true - my "spontaneous" "organization" style has left me with a pile of junk (only partly literal - I'm not a freakish hoarder) that takes so much time to work around that I can't just dive in on whatever inspiration I've got going.

So I'm trying to seriously cull, starting with extraordinarily outdated paperwork.

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[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

...but I think at the root of it all is this stupid fear that having a place for everything and everything in its place would suck all the spontaneity out of life.

I disagree with this fear. When the brilliant idea strikes it can so easily get lost if not finding the proper tools, materials and instructions right then right there.

Or that is how it works for me. And I should be better organised, as way to many ideas falls into the void this way for me.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

You are right. I know you're right, and I WANT to have everything in its place so I won't have to go digging/hunting for it.

Just the starting up and getting over myself is tricky...