Are you tired of riding the organizing roller coaster? Hanging on through the annoying up and down cycle of getting organized only to have the clutter quickly return?
Join the crowd. The organizing roller coaster frustrates most my ADHD coaching clients.
Typically, people who reach out for help getting organized with ADHD don’t awaken one morning deciding they’re ready to attack the clutter and disorganization. Most have spent years struggling to stay organized.
How discouraging can life get? You dedicate a precious weekend to clearing the clutter only to have the mess quickly reappear. Even worse, you don’t just do this once. You do it repeatedly throughout your life time.
This is a huge issue with my ADHD Coaching clients. In fact, it’s why many of them hire me. Living with ADHD is challenging enough but the draining, disheartening disorganization that often goes hand-in-hand with ADHD is what puts them over the top.
There are a number of reasons for the organizing roller coaster. More reasons than I can fit into one newsletter without making it so long you won’t read it.
That’s why over the next few weeks I’m going to focus my ADHD Success blog posts on practical organizing tips to get you off the roller coaster or at least teach you how to transform the ups and downs from steep hills to gentle bumps. So stay tuned.
The Last Word in ADHD Success
Looking back over the years riding the organizing roller coaster is one of my memories from that discouraging era of my life when I struggled with disorganization. Before I got organized for life.
As a kid my mom would order me to clean my room, and I’d spend an exhausting weekend picking everything up and putting it away only to have the mess return within a few days. (Don’t tell…I used to shove lots of stuff under my bed or into the back of the closet.)
As a new bride people thought we just loved having guests for Sunday dinner. The truth was we needed an entire weekend of frantic cleaning before our apartment was presentable enough for company.
Thankfully as I learned to be organized my organizing roller coaster got much less exciting. Now the ups and downs are slight. The mess rarely gets so bad that it takes more than a few minutes to return my home or office to a calm, clutter-free zone.
This is what I want for you. Because life doesn’t have to be so hard. You CAN get off the organizing roller coaster. You just need to know how to do it.
PS – You can learn the details of how I learned to be organized in my ebook, Organized for Life! here on the web site. Click here to find out how you can get Organized for Life, too.
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