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Not as organized as you want to be? What is holding you back? Odds are there are at least a few reasons you can give. Those reasons may sound logical, but odds are that they are grounded in home organization myths. Here is a really common one:

“I will never be perfect with my organization, so why even try?”

The myth here is that you have to be perfect to be organized.

This has always been a pervasive myth, and it can be really tough if you are a perfectionist by nature. But I can understand more than ever why this holds a lot of people back from getting organized these days. Now we don’t just have pictures of tidy homes in magazines to inspire (read: intimidate) us … we have endless pictures of perfect-looking homes in organization blogs all over the web.

Look up “how to get organized at home” or “best ways to get organized,” and you will find a lot of “ordinary” women who seem to have achieved the status of domestic goddess.

Now you feel more intimidated than ever. The blogs you follow could be run by the women who live down the street from you. Why is it so easy for them and so hard for you? If you try some of their home organization tips out and you don’t achieve the same gorgeous results, you end up feeling like a failure.

It is important to remember something, though. Many of these women blog professionally. Whether they make a lot of money doing it or just enough to treat themselves to something nice now and again doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they have the time to focus 100% on organizing. When they set up a room to take a photograph, they have put a great deal of energy into doing that. They have the luxury of treating organization like it is a full-time job. Also, you haven’t seen where the camera isn’t pointing. Who is to say their whole house looks spotless all the time? What you are seeing is a polished product, not necessarily a slice of real life.

Getting organized at home is not about making everything perfect—not for most of us. You are not a full-time pro organizer. You have a life with other responsibilities, maybe even a full-time job. Spending 15 minutes a day organizing is not going to get you the results you see in blogs, and that is perfectly okay.

Perfectionism is something you need to learn to let go of in order to empower yourself! Let the blogs you read on organization inspire you, but don’t let them intimidate you. Your life situation is probably very different, and you have unique constraints on your time those bloggers may not. No one else can stand in your shoes. Be proud of all that you do manage to accomplish with home organization, and remember, in your situation, it may be more relative to your other responsibilities, not less!