The spring issue of Northwestern Mutual Life's magazine, Creative Living, contains an article by Sheryl Seyfert about last year's book A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman. (Sorry, I wasn't able to find a link to the article.)

One of the benefits of unorganized time, according to the article, is that procrastination increases efficiency. Procrastinators don't waste much time working on things that turn out later not to be necessary or important. That's true; I've proven it many times. In fact, the author quotes Freedman as saying, "It's bad prioritizing to do things right away." I love it!

I'm proof that messy people usually know right where to find specific items. Abrahamson and Freedman, according to the article, say that when naturally messy people try to organize things they forget where they put them.

They bring up a big problem I have with professional organizers: the advice to get rid of anything you haven't used in a year. I hate to get rid of anything if I think I might ever need it. (And I'm miserable when I do need something I've gotten rid of.) The article quotes Abrahamson as saying, "If you did that, you'd wind up throwing out your fire extinguisher because you haven't had a fire in a year." Bravo!

The next book I hope to see is one about the superiority of night owls over early birds. We night owls have been made to feel inferior for far too long.