Orderly Brains

Lately I've just been running out of the apartment in the morning nearly late for work. Usually everything is left in disarray, dishes in the sink, clothes on the bedroom floor, bed unmade. This is hardly ideal.

Returning to a neat an orderly environment after a long day's work is one of the most satisfying and relaxing rewards you can give to yourself. Making your bed in the a.m. isn't necessarily for aesthetics alone, it's for you. Having a made bed to return to at night provides you with a sense of mental organization. Leaving yourself with a clean sink, rather than a pile of moldering dishes leaves you with a sense of mental and physical cleanliness. Having clothes folded and hung in their rightful places rather than piled haphazardly at various locations on your bedroom rug leaves you with both a sense of cleanliness and mental order.

Do not think mental orderliness or physical cleanliness is a meager goal. In fact, having a home environment that provides you with these can create them not only in your brain or on the home front, but in all other areas of your life. Work, relationships, commitments, family... everything begins to take on the same sense of order and cleanliness. How can these relate to, say, relationships? Well, if a relationship feels organized and clean, it may feel reliable and centered, committed and directed... all very satisfying things to experience in a relationship.

Don't underestimate the impact organization has on your daily life, inside and outside the home. As for me... well, I totally understand the love I have for returning home each day to a place that feels ordered and welcoming. So wake up earlier I shall! So that I return to a place in the evening that I not only call home... but feels like home, too.

Living in the Lower Cape, Plymouth, or Bristol county areas? Need some help with cleaning and organization? E-mail me, Sarah, for more information.
sarahsavie@yahoo.com