Margaret Moore is the founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital. She gave an interview about "... a cognitive basis for chronic disorganization," and reshaping habits. http://bigthink.com/think-tank/lifes...brain-to-adapt

She concludes:

If you learn how your brain works and work with it, you can start to exercise more cognitive control over your own functioning. The first step is to figure out what is it that you really want that being organized will give you. "That’s the fuel that will keep you going when you’re struggling to change your brain," says Moore. "Every time you make a change that lasts, you’re changing your brain."

Simple to state. Harder to do. It appears worth the effort.