LOST AND FOUND Is this good news?

This morning I couldn't find my red purse calendar.  I took the room apart because I had used it yesterday to make a dentist appointment.  So it had to be here, right?  Finally I realized I might have left it at the grocery store.  There it was in their lost and found.  

When I first moved here, I couldn't find my front door key.  After looking everywhere, I called the library.  I had left it on the checkout counter where there is no clutter.

A few days ago I lost my car keys.  They were 6 inches from the "car key dish" in a different dish.  

So if clutter is not always the cause of the thing I can't find, what is?    

 It didn't take long to realize that a major culprit is being distracted.

In the library that time, I was trying to hurry and distracted by a dozen things I had to remember to do in a new town and trying not to drop my cane on the floor.

Yesterday in the market, I was distracted by a dozen over-the-counter meds in umpteen sizes, but no sign of the one the doctor suggested.  

So what distracts me enough to lose things?  

Way too much on my Today list

An awful lot in my purse.

Thinking I have to rush because people are behind me in line.

Just plain NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

And SENSORY OVERLOAD.  A mountain of medicine cartons and a shopping list in my hand.

The phone ringing and the cat wrapped around my ankle.

What keeps me from finding some things?

Sensory overload in the purse, on the chest of drawers, in a drawer  

In other words.  Clutter.

I re-organized the purse a bit, but I still have a long way to go.

If you reorganize or simplify today, give yourself a treat.  And don't call me til I finish this ice cream.