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    Deborah Riegel

    The Best Way to Get the Worst Results

    Last weekend, in an uncharacteristic burst of energy, I decided to tackle the piles of clutter that threatened to overtake our front entrance hall and my bedroom bookcase. Despite the fact that I knew this would thrill my (orderly and neat) husband, Michael, I decided not to announce that I was going to do it. I just did it. I managed to get the many non-book stacks of stuff off of my bookshelf and into my office/bathroom/garbage without anyone noticing what I was up to. I then went to tackle the front hall, where I had dumped everything from makeup and office supplies to spare keys and headphones (so that’s where they were!) and had promptly forgotten where they were.

    This was where I got careless. I stopped being so quiet. And I got caught.

    “Wow,” said Michael to me, eying surfaces he hadn’t seen in weeks. “You look like you’re on a roll!”

    “Yup,” I said, “I’m getting my act together.”

    And that’s when Michael committed the fundamental sin that partners, parents, bosses and co-workers make every single day:

    Since you’re in an organizing mood, I have a great project in the basement for you when you’re done with this.

    As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman, “Big mistake. Big. HUGE!”

    What was Michael’s egregious error?

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