the mood to clean becomes strong. If the urge to shop or create or whatever comes over them, they honor it. Everybody has to plan ahead. But Messies like to plan with more flexibility built in. Messies are often highly productive, successful people, but they do it on their own terms. “Their own terms” often has a lot of craziness built in and causes them problems with both clutter and time management. Knowing these things about the Messie personality can give freedom to all of us who recognize that