A disorganized life is, at its core, annoying. Maybe you’ve learned to live with it and have ignored it so often that you barely notice anymore. Like a shoe that oinches or the noise on a busy street near your home, you’ve learned to tune it out, to a degree. But it still hurts.

Stop. Don’t do this to yourself anymore. Tune in to your negative feelings. Turn up the volume on them. Let them bubble to the surface and stay there. Zoom in on the “little” things that are diminishing the quality of your life.

Simply admitting to yourself how these annoying problems make you feel is the first big step towards solving them. Really.

Let the irritation energize you. Let it propel you toward finding a solution that works-one that sends your old friend annoyance packing. And it feels so good to get that rock out of the shoe.