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have contributed to an abundance of clutter. That’s true in home offices and traditional workspaces alike. And those jumbles of misplaced belongings can drain our mental resources, distracting us from work and dragging down our productivity.“Clutter reduces our bandwidth. It negatively affects our perception of our environment or ourselves,” said Marietta Van Den Berg, psychiatrist and medical director for Surrey Memorial Hospital in British Columbia. “It influences whether we make good choices or not. And it even influences our

Researchers at UCLA found that women who were living with a high density of household objects had high levels of the stress hormone cortisol.As households and workplaces embark on spring cleaning, it’s possible to reduce clutter andThis article is part of AP’s Be Well coverage, focusing on wellness, fitness, diet and mental health.

“Things circulate into our lives all too easily. We need a competitive plan for things to circulate out,” said Matt Baier, owner of Matt Baier Organizing in Stamford, Connecticut. “A good example of that is buying on Amazon. It’s so easy. Boxes come in. We have so many houses that are just piled with boxes, opened and unopened, things that need to be returned, boxes that need throwing out.”There are many reasons we accumulate clutter. Sometimes we don’t know where to put

. Other times a paper represents a task — whether it’s paying a bill or making a phone call — that we can’t tackle right away.

“Clutter is actually just a postponed decision or action,” Van Den Berg said. “It’s things we pick up and put down. So we’re not making a decision about that piece of paper on your desk, or that book.”, where competition continues through June 8.

Even the longest-running and most tradition-bound of the majors,, is — gasp! — abandoning line judges and moving to an automatic system this year. The WTA and ATP added machine-generated rulings this season for tour events on red clay, the surface at the French Open. But Grand Slam hosts can do what they want, and the French tennis federation is keeping the human element.

scheduled to play his first-round match in Paris on Tuesday, understands why folks might prefer the way to keep things the way they were for more than a century in his sport. He gets why there could be an inclination to shy away from too much change in a world now drowning in cell phones and streaming and social media.“You don’t want to give everything away to the technology, right? But if I have to choose between the two, I’m more of a proponent of technology. It’s just more accurate, saves time, and ... (means) less people on the court” said Djokovic, 38, who was disqualified from the 2020 U.S. Open for inadvertently hitting an official with a ball hit out of frustration between games.