Three Reasons Why You Can't Organize Your Home

Hello everyone! Today, I want to focus on three reasons why you can't organize your home. I will talk about each of these reasons more in depth in later posts. Hopefully, I'll have a post dedicated to each reason and how to get over these problems.

Everyone (or everyone in my mind) wants to have an organized home where they can easily locate any item that they need in an instant. Imagine how much time you waste looking for your keys, your clothes, your shoes, and whatever else. I'm not sure about you, but I can literally waste hours looking for just the necessities each and every week. I know I'm not the only one. Are you wasting time looking for things that should be easy to locate? If you experience this time suck continue reading to see if any of these three problems matches you.

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Three Simple Reasons Why You Can't Organize Your Home

Simple Mistakes

Organizing is a skill that pretty much anyone can learn. This skill is simple and can only get better overtime. It does take a lot of thought, creativity, and strength of will but I guarantee you will be a better person for it in the end. There are so many mistakes that people make when they begin their organizing journey. Trust me, I've made them and you probably will too, but that's okay. At least you're giving it the old college try.


In a later post, I will go into more depth about these simple mistakes but for now I will list off one or two that I've struggled with in the past.


Organizing isn't any fun. True, it isn't fun, but it needs to be done. I'm sure that you can think of a zillion other more fun things to do with your time- I know I can! You probably have a television show or a website that is silently calling out to you; so, you have no drive to actually pick up and clean up even the smallest things. I get around this time drain by listening to music or playing my favorite television show while I do small cleaning tasks around the house.


Another simple mistake I've made is that none of my stuff has a home. My hairbrush, shoes, clothes, and whatever else just kind of hangs out in limbo with no where else to go. When I went to grab an item I was looking for it could be in one of a hundred locations and I didn't know where to begin looking for them item. So, I was wasting so much time looking in a number of places. Totally wasted my time. It was ridiculous, and let me repeat total time drain.

Unrealistic Expectations

Everyone has at least some kind of unrealistic expectation about their world, life, or self. Its really only human nature to want to be better and do the best we can. I know that I have many unrealistic expectations about myself that will probably never happen, but these expectations help me to better myself in ways that I would never have thought of.


So, maybe you're (for the most part) organized. You have broken down and gotten rid of anything that was just clutter or duplicates. If you need help with clearing away clutter check out my post about Getting rid of clutter. Everything in your home has a place for the most part, but you just can't seem to find enough storage to put everything else. Maybe you've ran out of room or maybe your storage systems just aren't working out.


Maybe you are in a transition point in your life; so, a permanent storage system isn't reasonable. Maybe you're looking for a new place or a new job. Whatever the reason, try to implement a temporary system that will keep you on track and working smarter not harder. I'll go into more detail about this problem and how to fix it next week.
 

Psychological Reasons

Psychological reasons are possibly the worst reason why you can't organize your house. These types of problems can be terribly difficult to get over and even harder to spot. The first step is really becoming away of the reason or reasons why you are psychologically sabotaging your organizing efforts.


Let's say you have come up with several organizing systems but you never fully put them into good use. A small voice inside of your craves for the unorganized, cluttered life even though you know you want to be organized. Something inside of you just subconsciously makes you sabotage anything that could possible better your living situation.


Maybe you have a fear of failing at getting your home, life, or whatever else organized. You know that an organized home is something that you want but a little voice is telling you that it just can't be done. You know that annoying little voice that always tries to sabotage you at every turn. Nothing you do is good enough for that voice, and perhaps that terrible, little voice has you convinced that it is just trying to help you out.


Now, there are many reasons for each of these problems, and as I said before I will delve into these problems later on. For now, it is important to remember that a lot of people have a mix of these three types of problems and there are always ways to fix these problems. If you need help breaking through the mold and getting rid of these problems, feel free to email me and I'll do my best to help you get your home organized!

Does one of these problems match your reasons why you can't organize your house? Do you have any other problems that are not listed here? Feel free to leave any comments, questions, or personal stories in the comment section below!