Where’s your head at? Every morning when you wake up, it’s in the same spot on top of your pillow. Every night when you go to sleep, you lay it right back on the pillow where it then stays until you wake. The easiest way not to ‘lose’ your head is to always put it back where it goes when you are done with it. Now, why don't we put away everything else we're always looking for in specific spots, too?

Sounds silly, but organization may be a key approach in maintaining mental focus in the new ‘fast-forward’ age. Clutter distracts our everyday-life even more than ever leaving less time for everyday-joy. Why worry about remembering where something is? An organized home is intuitive so that there is no guessing and searching, only classifying and finding.

A central thread in today’s burgeoning ‘organization’ service industry is that in life we accumulate stuff that we own. In most cases, not only do we no longer need these things, but we have no idea what to do with them now, or how to get rid of them. The most popular solution to the problem of, “too much stuff,” seems to be, “add more space,” but rarely does this ever seem to work in the end.

Even a few businesses have sprouted up to try to solve this clutter crisis; Plastic organizing containers, Personal design strategists, and even professional organizers. In Lubbock, professional home and business organizer ‘Free Your Space’ is helping people in West Texas get organized and learn how to identify stressful habits and environments. This usually consists of hands-on organizing and downsizing of clutter, but also with regular consultations for the long-term organization needs. (www.lubbockorganizer.com)

Leading a perfectly organized life is probably as impossible as living any other idealistic life, but working toward better habits that will reduce the amount of stress in our lives pays back in spades. A business stands to increase profitability with organization efforts. Some things can be fixed by improving employee interactions with their work environment. Certain often overlooked problems can mean devastating loss of productivity over periods of time. Working to remove these preventable stresses and distractions that are within our ability to change could greatly improve our world. Very seldom in life is there a major stressor within it which we indeed do have the means to the solution. Now that we’ve found our head, lets forgive ourselves and use it.

This article is offered by Brandon Smith, Lubbock organizing specialist at "Free Your Space." Learn more about Brandon and his services at www.lubbockorganizer.com