What are the costs of being disorganized?
There are monetary costs to being disorganized. They can run from late fees you have to pay because you've forgotten to pay a bill or missed things, fees that you pay for missed appointments that you forgot about because you didn't write them down, or you wrote them down but you can't find the piece of paper you wrote them on. Another monetary cost to being disorganized is buying things multiple times. I see this all the time too. You forget you have something, you go out, you buy it again and when you finally sit down to clean out a drawer, or clean out a cabinet, suddenly you discover that you've got ten of the same thing. But I think that the biggest cost to being disorganized is time. Time is our most valuable commodity that we have today. And everyone, no matter what job or lifestyle they may have, we're all looking to have more time. And when you're disorganized you lose time in so many ways. You lose time because you're busy trying to look for things you can't find, you're trying to retrace your steps, you're trying to fix things or undo things that you've done, and it really becomes about trying to capture some of that lost time. And when you're disorganized, that's basically what you lose. You lose time.
