2. Why am I messy?

Is being messy something we’re born with?

Have you ever wondered why some people just seem to be born organized? I used to ask myself many many times . . . “Why am I messy?” “What makes me messy?” “Can I help being messy?” I felt like I just couldn’t change and often it made me very depressed.

What I believe is that some people were brought up in neat homes and just learned to be neat. Others were brought up in obsessively neat homes and rebelled. Some were raised in homes where mum and dad were messy too. And some of us are just hoarders. We just can’t part with stuff, even when it is way passed its used by date.

Don’t worry, being tidy and organized can indeed be learned (i.e. we do not pop out of the womb with a broom, a polish cloth and a calendar!).

I was ridiculed for being messy and bad at housework for many many years, PLUS I’m a great hoarder. If I can learn to be neat, tidy and uncluttered, ANYONE can!!

Messiness is really just a set of automatically carried out bad habits.

The key is to replace them with new habits and new thinking.

If you want to be neat and organized, you CAN be, simple as that. We human beings can do ANYTHING we set our minds to. As you follow the instructions you find in the pages of this website, your thinking will change, and your actions will follow.

Please read that again: When your THINKING changes, your ACTIONS will follow.

It’s a natural thing. If you keep reading and learning the information in this website (you may wish to bookmark it as its too much to read in one day), you will begin to ACT OUT the information you know.

I want you to be PROUD of the way you live your life, and to live it to the full. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. You can be neat, organized, clean and tidy, and move on to enjoying other pursuits in life.

Small steps every day will add up to weeks and months and years of being organized and free. You will no longer identify yourself as a messy person. Proceed to Page 3 – Easy Cleaning Routines