Being overcommitted has important ramifications for managing your clutter. When you are overcommitted, you tend to allow insufficient time for each activity, as well as insufficient time between activities; consequently, you constantly leave items unfinished.
If you are overcommitted people you may be willing to stop in midair the moment others call. You fail to take charge of your schedule and instead respond to the needs of everybody else. Therefore, you spend most of your time in crisis mode, which, along with flooding your body with adrenaline, triggering you to try and save five seconds here and ten seconds there by not putting things away and then spend three hours frantically searching for something they can’t find.
So when you are overcommitted you can wind up in a vicious cycle with your things. You may feel that you are too busy dealing with the next emergency to take the time to even hire the help you need to make inroads into your clutter.
An obvious solution is to try to scale back your commitments. To do this, you must stop the merry-go-round, and spend some time thinking about what matters most to you. Ask yourself what commitments are most important to you, and how you decide to commit.
Rethinking your obligations is a way that may enable you to stop overcommitting. Use these strategies: [Read more…] about Clutter Busting: Are you Overcommitted?