You know you have too much stuff and you feel it would be nice if you would do something about it, but you’ve lived with it for so long that chances are you have buried how afflicted you feel by it and in your mind you have minimized how much of an impact this is having on the quality of your life. Your brain may be saying it’s not a big deal, but your body isn’t.
Let’s look at the definition of affliction. Affliction: the state of being afflicted, the cause of persistent pain or distress, great suffering. Your body feels the distress of the condition I like to call accumulationitis every moment of every day. It robs you of energy, makes you feel depressed. It gives you headaches, interferes with your sleep and even makes you sick. Even weight gain can occur.
If you are afflicted with a disease like cancer, you seek medical attention. If you are afflicted with an addiction, you seek treatment in a rehabilitation center. If you are afflicted with a mental health issue you take prescription drugs and see a psychologist. So why is it that if you are afflicted with the life robbing behavior of cluttering and disorganization and you think you can and should be able to deal with it on your own? I’ll tell you why. Because many people have not made the connection that this cluttering and disorganization is being driven from a place deep inside your sub-conscious. As consumers, we are led to believe that if we just had the right time management system, the perfect garage or closet organizers, the most functional type of plastic bins or a bigger house we would be perfectly organized. Why do you think the storage solution industry makes billions?
And the worst part about it is that society wants you to believe that the more stuff you have the more successful and fulfilled you will be. Advertisers don’t want you to make the connection that having too much stuff is not benefitting you but hurting you. Because what would that mean if people truly understood that having too much stuff can dramatically impact the quality of their lives which may deteriorate their lives to the point of death? Would that mean that people would be motivated to stop buying as much stuff? And what would that do to our economy if people didn’t buy as much stuff? Well, I think we all know the answer to this. But the reality is that having too much stuff is contributing to the deaths of Americans every day. Does that sound drastic? Consider what I was mentioning before about the distress it puts on people. Stress can lead to disease and disease can lead to death. It sounds drastic because the end results are drastic.
So I highly advise you to take accumulationitis much more seriously than you probably are. Understand you may be dealing with an affliction that you can not deal with on your own. It’s not as simple as carving out a weekend to tackle those massive piles of paper in your office.
It’s not as simple as getting a bunch of large plastic bins from Target and the solution is not just simply getting a bigger home, the answer is inside. You want to make massive change that will stick, start on the inside. Your life depends on it.
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