So it is when we don’t declutter our desks, files, and computers. Information is useless if it isn’t available. We make more mistakes because we can’t find something in the clutter, than we will make by decluttering.
That important file may be hidden in a 12-inch stack of file folders, but if we really needed it, we would no more be able to find it than if we
had shredded it.

If we don’t make decisions, we don’t make mistakes. We keep every paper that crosses our desk, even though we know we couldn’t find it if we needed it. Just knowing it is there makes us feel like we have covered ourselves.

We have covered ourselves, the same way a gravedigger covers a gram.. Visualize each piece of paper as another shovelful of dirt on your career grave. Keep on doing what you’ve always been doing and you’ll keep getting the same results.
You already know how to make decisions. You just don’t give yourself credit for making them. By not making a decision on the importance of what to keep and what not to keep, you’ve made a decision. You’re making decisions. You’re just making the wrong ones.