Lately, I’ve been doing the Fly-lady system (and of course, it
made me think of this item on my list here). If you haven’t
checked out http://www.flylady.com and you’re as big a clutter
bug as I’ve been, then trust me, this will be a great simple
cure.
Flylady is an excellent system for volitile creative types like
myself. As an artist, one kind of expects disorder and genius
to go hand in hand. Allow me to reassure you, that’s not how it
has to be. Flylady helps those without healthy routines in their
lives to aquire some. And her clutter-flinging strategies are
so simple you’ll wonder why you never bothered to get a timer
and trashbag before. (My timer is my new friend, just as she
said it would be…).
I love ‘blessing’ my home by cleaning it. I love that my room
and art studio are becoming places I can enjoy. The buried and
guilty feelings that my clutter was inducing are beginning to
vanish. Soon, I’ll have a studio I can actually work in :).
Once that happens, then I’ll know for sure I can mark this as
done…
One more thing I want to add. The Flylady system is so great
because it works in the fact that even if you establish good
routines, there will still be days when you won’t get everything
done that you wanted to do (or days when you just crash and
do nothing at all…). You can always pick up at the first step
and get back on track pretty easily.
