Spreading yourself too thin. I see it all the time from the busy, successful people that I work with. You’re smart, talented people with big hearts and you try to do too much! When you do too much, you don’t leave any time for yourself which results in not weeding out your own garden of stuff!
I recently started working with a client who is retired but volunteers for so many activities that she hasn’t had time for herself. She has the potential to be an organized, clutter free person but she’s so involved with helping others, that her personal life has suffered. She has a very active social life, volunteer activities, grandchildren, husband, the whole nine yards but no time for tune ups of her office, den, or other places that she spends her time. Once I identified this for her, she realized it was time to step down from one or two of her major responsibilities, let someone else take it on, and spend more time on herself.
I saw her today for our second appointment and I was pleased and impressed to learn that she had given her “notice” to one volunteer activity and was considering a second. She was relieved and excited at the possibilities that will bring and her new found time. She even wants to pursue a new interest that will involve less time but be more personally fulfilling. She had already cleaned out years of recipe accumulation, books, articles, and things she just didn’t need anymore just since our first appointment and she was energized! Just knowing that she could pass on the accumulation of years on one committee was liberating in itself!
So, before you say yes to that next committee, consider what else you have going on in your life and allow time for some weeding of your own.
Jan Davis
ClutterBye
www.ClutterBye.com
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