Good news! Amanda Sullivan says overgrown filing cabinets, closets, stacks in the garage or mounds on your desk do not indicate slovenliness. She says it may indicate fears and discusses what to do about them:
- Fear of financial problems
- Fear that you’re in over your head with something important
- Fear of missing out
- Fear that anything short of perfection is not good enough
Source: BottomLineInc. May 15, 2017. Link.
Perfectionists convince themselves that anything short of the ideal is not good enough. But perfection is usually not realistic and striving for it can have negative consequences—including clutter.” Amanda Sullivan