I have been criticised for being too organised. Is this a failing?

Everything can be a failing when it falls out of balance. Too much of a good thing and all that…

Our mind is a reflection of our environment and vice-versa. An orderly living space helps to declutter your thoughts, and a quiet mind helps you to select only the necessary effects for your surroundings.

On the flipside, a disorderly environment can promote creativity. To navigate a less-than-perfect space can promote a similar productive chaos within your imagination.

When either of these gains too much momentum it can and will consume energy that you could be using elsewhere.

If you need your home to be so clean and organized that a little disorder causes you stress, then you’re holding on to control rather tightly. Cleaning can start to become so important that your housemates are on edge about causing any disorder at all.

If you’re messy enough that you can’t find the items in your home that you need to live your life, you’ll lose time searching for them. There can become so many layers of mess that you don’t even know what’s in the pile(s). It’s more difficult to keep a disorderly space sanitary.

In my experience, it’s better to lean towards the organized side. Disorder can snowball very quickly. It tends to reflect procrastination and poor self-image. To be “overly” organized takes much more effort, so defaulting to a messy state is definitely the lazier of the two.

But… too organized? I’m not sure. What do you think? Can you see why people have said that about you?

Who has said it to you? What was the context?

In the end, only you can make this call.