Cheesecake

I have been looking at, moving, re-sorting, tucking into a pile with other papers, this one article from Real Simple on the world's best cheesecake.  Okay, get real self!  Do you really think you are going to make this?

After a few months of this article cluttering up my kitchen counter, I threw it out.  If I'm going to make a cheesecake, I have plenty of sources for a recipe.

Finally letting go of that one thing that has been nagging at me every day in my kitchen, has me pondering...and I came to a self-realization.

I am inundated with clutter.  Paperwork all over.  Things that need to be filed.  Things that need to be read.  Things that need...oh, forget it.

At work I'm very organized.  There are a few rules I live by to stay organized, one of them is this method I read about that goes something like this:

Never touch a piece of paper more than once.  When you get it, address it, file it, throw it away, send it on...etc...don't put it in this 'gotta get back to this' pile...it will just keep boomeranging back.

I follow this method fine at work...but not at home.

Both my sisters and my cousin have this incredible knack for not having their house cluttered with things.  Like Peter Walsh says...any horizontal space (counters, shelves, including floors) shouldn't be a holding place for things.  These three ladies have an incredible talent for not having shit all over their house.  I do not.  There is crap all over every horizontal space in my house...toys, things to be filed, pictures to be put away, toys to be put away...I can go on and on.

So, a few months ago I said I'd live with only what I need.  I don't think I need all this crap.  But the question is...how do I let go of it?  Most of my crap is paperwork.  Other people keep 'things' that they may need in the future.  I don't have a problem with that...I have a problem with paperwork.

This is something I'm going to tackle this year for my 37th birthday...training myself to let go of paperwork.  Get rid of it...stop having it pile up...stop having it nagging me to get back to it....get it out of my house.

I can picture my house at risk like a forest...when there is too much underbrush, it is at high risk for a huge fire.  That is what my house is like with paperwork...it is all over everywhere...high risk for an emergency out of control fiasco.

I will reward myself...once I get the paperwork cleared out & a system I can follow at home...I will treat myself.  Yes, to cheesecake.  Though, I don't think I will make it...I will buy it...and a good one too!