Are you messy (disorganized)?

Question

Eg: with your table, room.. things are scattered everywhere. Is it true that it's difficult to change a habit like this?

Answer 1

Yes, Its hard to change but its not difficult also its normal. Start with a small area and tell yourself everday before you go to bed that you are going to take care of this area tomorrow and then try to do it. At first it may give you headace but dont let it bother you, tell youreslf that I have to finish this area today and remember to just take a small area very small area at a time or start timeing yourself at every area. I am messy and disorganized to but this doesnt stop me from doing my 7/24 hour normal job.

Answer 2

I hate to admit that I have become a messy person in the past few years. My wife and I are both disabled and it's very hard to keep the house clean when you never feel good and are always in pain. I do help my wife clean up on those few good days we have. When I was in the military I was neat but didn't really have a choice. lol I would love to have a clean, neat house all the time, but can't seem to find my organizational skills. I think they got lost somewhere under a pile. lol

Answer 3

Being neat is boring...Being messy adds personality :) But it is important not to get messy confused with dirty, because keeping a clean environment is important, but you can still be messy. Think about the world we live in...would you rather live in the desert, where everything is bare and in order...or would you rather live in the rainforest, where there is a mess of nature and so many different things to see?

Answer 4

It's difficult to change, yes. But it also goes in cycles. For example: for students, during the semester, it can get very messy.

But before finals, people obviously want to get organized with what they learned, etc. And then it carries over and they clean up their papers and clothes and food, etc.

Answer 5

No.I'm an organized person..
Yes,it's difficult to change a habit like this but still nothing is hard if you tried hard..

Answer 6

Yep been messy since the mid fifties, back in the last century~ It all started with my diapers. In those days pampers were an idea to come in the future decades, but then? It was a messy operation for the mothers to clean up the diapers. Talk about a dirty washload! They were all cloth, and had to be folded a certain way before applying to the baby, then they were closed with safety pins. Sometimes the pins weren't all that safe!
As I grew into a toddler I could care less about my surrounding areas. When school started so did my troubles. It seemed everyone around me was abnormal. Every thing had a place for them, and a place for everything: I thought that was rather odd. My teachers, and peers thought I was rather lazy! It turned out by the time I was a teenager that I was the abnormal one. Particularly with my immediate surroundings.
Bumbling through those teenage years I found my self in art school and things had still not improved in my relationship with inate objects within my sphere of space. That is to say things were quite messy about me. Even my hair. Hell I thought brushing twice a day was enough, couldn't anyone else see that?! Apparently not.
I recall one day sitting in my grandmother's living room whilst she was in her kitchen talking with my aunt and in the conversation she said of my studio( this was around my third year in art college) she said " that boy has paint all over the place, on his shoes, his shirt, the floor and the walls, it's on the ceiling, and smeared on the windows, he's got paint the sink, his hair, up his nose for crying out loud!! I can't understand how the kid manages to get the paint on his canvas in all the right places".
Graduating into adult hood with my own studio I've found that no one can find what I wanted in my entire living space unless I actually took them by the hand and physically led them to it! That included the dishes for a simple cup of tea.
I knew where everything was, and most of the time I still do. Most of the times.
Somewhere in my late thirties I realized that not only was I an "organized messy man" but I am also a KLUTZ! When I first realized this I went into a state of denial. In my early forties I accepted the fact than not only am I a mental wreck, but it would be best to accept my own klutzhood. Understanding bipolar (it used to be called "manic depressive" but the good people of the pollitically correct thought that "manic depression" is a label poor buggers like me should not have to bear, as it has become a stigma)...as I was saying; understanding that I am bipolar has allowed me to accept this sticky situation I am constantly perpetuating in, and about my life.
Off on a tangent now ....I wonder when the "pollitically correct" are going to find that "a bipolar disorder" is stigmatized. Furthermore what are they going to call my mental condition next?
Back to your question..now then; I am in my early fifties and still I am a messy man. The wife understands this thankfully and my kid sister still likes to visit my studio and poke around for hours. Sometime I'm amazed at what she finds because I've forgotten about them. Like the Fox skull and spine bones I've set aside for a certain project. Couldn't find the damn bones for a decade until my sister stumbled upon them. She's amazed at what I hold in my studio and doesn't dare call it a mess. She did that twenty years ago when my mood was volatile, she won't do it again. And yes she has forgiven me for all.
This morning I was watching a program on television about the idea of nuclear fallouts in the states and the extremes that some americans would go to, in case of a atomic bomb dropping in on them. At one point I got up for a coffee and came back to find that my remote was missing. I'm not kidding you it took me more than twenty minutes to find the damn thing!!! Twenty minutes!! I was getting frustrated to the point of anger. Then I found it after I cleaned up the mess about my chair the danged thing just popped up.
I think that changing this messy habit is difficult to change if you are afflicted with a "bipolar disorder" but someone of a normal state of mind could probably change their habit.
It isn't something to worry about really....I mean after all look at the bloody mess this world is in!.!. Do you really think your disorganized state is going to add an iota to it? I don't. But if you want to go through the process of changing your habit then by all means do so. In the long run you'll probably do better than I am.
Bye-bye.

Answer 7

Yes to your first question. Also pretty much Yes, it's really hard to change old ways. I'm not saying it's impossible to do. Especially if you make up your mind to. Then you probably can. Still, It's hard to change.

Answer 8

Bullshit! Messy is good cos it trains u everyday from disorganised to orgainiseD! Surprisingly, I am good in organizing when messy comes! haha.

Answer 9

yea I'm messy. lol!
I heard that if you're really organized (a neat freak), something has happened in ur life thats bothering you.

and yes, the habit is difficult to change. it can take time, though.

Answer 10

No, I just have an order of priorities.