Feng Shui Santa Cruz Notes: Weekly Chaos in the Home
I love a clean, orderly house. You would never know that if you visited my house on an early Saturday morning. By the end of the work week, my house always looks like a madperson trashed it. The effect is the cumulation of a week’s worth of not doing the little things that would have resulted in beauty and order.
In the kitchen, it is not putting away pots and pans, leaving random stuff on the countertops.
In the bathroom it is not putting bottles and grooming stuff away – everything is out where it was last used.
The dining room table must have some kind of invisible magnet attached to it that attracts any ole thing I don’t know what to do with at a given moment.
And my living room table is a mess of paper that needs sorting and filing.
I almost forgot the bedroom, which is too traumatic to think about with reading material and clothing everywhere.
Life takes a lot of organization and management. Keeping the environment organized and beautiful takes time and that is such a precious commodity.
I marvel at people who have a natural ability to keep their environment orderly. I imagine it is due to exceptionally good habits and super-effective time management. I keep having the best of intentions, and keep noticing that I have a unique ability to attract clutter.
I flatter myself by telling myself it is because I am a “creative type.” And I seem to have a lot of projects in various stages – “stuff I am going to take somewhere else” is a particular ongoing challenge I face.
But I do clean everything up and organize it once a week. Some people are not able to do that and I think of how chaotic and unhappy their lives must be.
I think the degree to which a person is conscious of their environment and the time and effort that is allocated to maintain it has a relationship to a person’s mental health and how well their life is working for them.
I know my mood immediately lightens when my home is restored to beauty and order. I wish I could wave a magic wand and make everyone believe this simple Feng Shui truth.
