The Clutter Connection: How Your Personality Type Determines Why You Organize the Way You Do (Clutterbug)

by Cassandra Aarssen

Our thoughts about ourselves shape our entire lives. When it comes to organization, we’ve all been shoved into a square box, so to speak, despite the fact that some of us are very round. It’s time to think outside the box when it comes to organization! It’s time to stop trying to fix what doesn’t work and focus instead on what does!

If you are struggling to get your life together, drowning in clutter, or you feel as though you are lacking basic organizational skills, I want you to start by giving yourself a break. I want you to be open to the possibility that none of those negative statements are true and the real reason that you have failed up until now is that you have been trying solutions that are designed for someone else’s personality. Albert Einstein once said, “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that it is stupid.” You are that fish, my friend, and traditional organization is the tree. There is another way and there are other options.

Before we dive in headfirst, repeat after me: “I am a hardworking, productive, and organized person.” Heck yeah, you are! Say it again! “I am a hardworking, productive, and organized person.” Now let me show you how this is so incredibly true, even if you don’t yet believe it yourself.