Messiness has been romanticized over the years to an extent that now it is often associated with intelligence. The messier a person is implying that they have a lot of great things in their hand and just fail to control it. In truth, only the last part is true: they fail to keep things organized and that affects them. If they did the same things but in an organized manner, they’d find themselves more efficient in their tasks. When there is clutter in your head, there is clutter everywhere because it seeps into everything you do. This gravely has a negative impact on your mind. Here is how:

It Steals Your Time

You might know where the compass is in your clutter but you will spend significantly more time to find the compass than having an organized desk. You will put aside things just to make sure it’s there. And, just in case, it’s not, you have no idea where it is. Organization is time management at its best. You take a day out to organize your stuff so that when you need to work urgently, you do not waste time trying to find the notebook need for the class/meet.

It Interferes With Your Relationships

It’s considered ideal that when you talk to people, you give them all your attention. Rightly so, you would want their attention when you’re talking. How will you give all your attention to them when there’s clutter around you? Clutter and finding what you want in it leaves you frustrated. It slowly makes you short-tempered. These are not good traits in any relationship, even with yourself. The way you work, the way your desk is arranged, the way your home is arranged, if it’s all clutter, you will have a tough time maintaining relationships with people you love because the clutter around you works actively against it. You have to try double hard to make them work.

It Steals Your Productivity

When the clutter is at its worst, it acts as a distraction and, thus, steals your productivity. Because when you are busy with a task at hand and are under a deadline, the last thing you want is clutter on your desk. More than distractions, it will be a disturbance and will add to your stress. When stressed, you are at a higher risk of throwing everything when you can’t seem to find that notebook you made notes in. At the end of it, you will not have made much progress and still lost precious time. This is why it’s better to keep things organized so it doesn’t distract you when you need to concentrate.

There is no proof that clutter implies greater intelligence, but we know that clutter adds stress. Stress is not healthy for your body, by any standard of counts. At best, you ma.