These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Let's declutter. Let's get the clutter and disorganization out of our brains, out of our lives, and do something about this confusion that we create for

ourselves. And this really stems from somebody that wrote to me and said, I need help on

building walls of clutter, electronic or physical. They said, I have a lot of websites. I have tons of

bookmarks. I have zillions of email addresses and lots of crap in storage. It's awful. I scream

for help on how to reboot and how to focus on the essentials. And yeah, I hear that. In fact, one of the first things that comes to

mind for me, because I've always considered myself an organized person until I met an organized

person, my wife, who is much more organized and really dislikes my organizational skills.

When she's looking for stuff on my computer, she has no idea what folder I would put

in and my hierarchy and my categorization.

And I know it pretty well, but the problem is I pick up other systems.

And what I mean by that, and maybe you can relate, is that sometimes we have a system to organize our life.

And then instead of following that system every time, we create another system.

For example, my taxes, I have a tax

folder, but it's under the finances and general folder that I put on my computer. But I also have

the paper form, the paper version of my taxes in a file drawer. And I filed it under T for taxes and then the year and that made sense to me.

But sometimes I'll get something in an email that says, this is your 1099 or your W something.

And I don't know what to do with it.

Do I put in the tax folder?

Do I put it in the business folder that it's associated with that business?

You know, if it comes from a or if it's about a business that I've worked with and they are sending me a tax form, do I put it in the tax folder?

Do I put it in the business names folder?

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