organizing

Since it’s the new year, I put some thought to new projects, tasks. One of my perennial concerns is reducing clutter. I strongly recommend Julie Morgenstern’s Organizing from the Inside Out, as she doesn’t make any broad commands and top-down instructions, but rather induces you to organize based on your own lifestyle. And for her, organizing helps reduce clutter, not the other way around. So organizing what you do have will help you see how much you need.

Of course, I’ve been doing this so long that I’m coming to the point where I really don’t have much more to get rid of. Well, I’m sure I still have stuff I don’t need, but I’ve got enough space for it all, which is pretty good. Anyway, I don’t want to just be the kind of person who organizes and purges just for its own sake. Though I have to say it is addictive.