Time Spent on Important Things

Your spouse and children are suffering as you shuffle them from soccer to the mall (a.k.a. "maul") to fulfill that never ending need that love used to provide. When you were a child, and were unable to get everything you wanted, you vowed to be a parent that would give your children all of the material possessions they desired. However, little did you know that growing up with less had more meaning than the ever-insatiable craving of purchasing that new object of desire? Maybe your life was a bit more organized and manageable at that time. Time spent together as a family instead of individual activities can strengthen your family.

Spend your time with people, instead of spending your time and money on acquiring material possessions. What you really want is more time for yourself and your family, but the choices you make can be counter-productive to doing what is important to you.

Wait a minute, you ask. How is it possible that your affluent, two-income family, breeders from Vulgaria, could be lacking anything since you are known as "The Jones"? Just the idea of "keeping up" somehow excuses your behavior since this is how everyone lives today. You seldom think about how over scheduled you are. Having a "Crackberry type" addicted lifestyle is consuming all of your precious time, and you wonder why your family is so disorganized. With all of the choices available today; from activities that are no longer are free, the 500 choices of salad dressing at the supermarket, or the infant soccer team that keeps you away from being with their children, when will there be time to slow down?

Over-scheduled and over-worked are just symptoms of your community going awry. Keeping up with that new fangled piece of technology that will surely make your life easier have not actually made your life better. The "new and improved" gadget has made your life more complicated.

You may say there is less time to do the general chores around your house to keep it organized. Your home is a mess and your family is out of control. Have you thought about simplifying your life?

You spend very little time in the home, therefore not much time spent together as a family. There are other choices, but you will have to make a choice to change things now if you want things to become simplified. How about spending your time with the family? Teaming up as a family instead of creating individual activities all of the time promotes unity.

Much to the chagrin of marketing agents, you must begin to take your thoughts back as an integral part of your ever changing and improving life. Instead of being force-fed ideas and choices that make your life more complicated, begin to realize that your life can become better organized and more fulfilling, if you have fewer choices and less things to manage. Spending your time on important things is knowing what is important and then taking the actions to do them.

Rebecca Lang is founder of Clutter Organizers a Professional Organizing company serving business and residential organizing with a specialty in productivity coaching. We serve Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Member of: National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
Washington D.C. Chapter (NAPO) "Golden Circle Member"

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