Friday; June 7
The other day I sat down at the desk in my home office and had to face a harsh reality – it was filled with clutter. For the last several weeks I would work on something, then set it over in one pile. I would wind up a cord and set it in another part of the desk. I had sticky notes (some active, some obsolete) pasted all over my desk. It was a mess and it was a bit overwhelming, but there was one more thing about it … it needed to be cleared! I was going to be using my home office for a while, so I had to do something about the mess. I couldn’t live with it, I couldn’t ignore it, so I just had to take the time to get my workspace in order. I am sure that many people can relate to my desk, but there is another lesson that can be learned from my clutter – how many of us life with clutter in our lives? Emotional clutter can come in a variety of forms: holding a grudge against one person, being envious of another person, never really completely thinking through a soluti