Clutter can damage your health and affect your wealth. Think I’m overstating the case? Here’s the thing: everything you own needs to be kept clean or you’re breath- ing in dust and creating an environment loved by icky pests. The more useless things you have, the more useless stuff you have to clean. Clutter also affects you financially because if you don’t know what you have because it is hidden in among the clutter, you go out and re-buy it. Plus there’s the hidden value in junk (defined as something you don’t love or need) that’s not in your pocket because you haven’t gotten round to selling it.
Clutter can also lead to despair. You come home of an evening and instead of feel- ing like you’re home, you feel like you’re in a stranger’s …show more content…
There wasn’t a square inch of that studio that wasn’t being used to the extreme in serving her and her life. To the untrained eye, walking into her studio, you’d think it was the epitome of clutter with things everywhere but, in fact, her living space was the exact opposite of clutter as she needed and, importantly, used everything in her space. She could get to everything easily to clean it and she found looking at her things inspiring and uplifting.
Clutter is defined by how you feel about it. Another person could have the exact same number of things in his home and feel weighted down and miserable about it. This is because our things exert an influence on us. They tell the world who we are and they reflect the decisions we’ve made about our lives. If you feel the weight of clutter upon you, it isn’t the physical things that are weighing you down, it is the decisions you have to make about who you are and what you want in your life.
And let’s be clear about this. Every single thing you own is a decision you’ve made and so getting rid of clutter is not about sourcing bags and boxes and arranging sales and giveaways or even making a room look nice, it is about making …show more content…
So how much more stressful are the many more you’ll have to make on your decluttering journey?
Okay, does this make you feel ready to abandon all hope and go back to bed with- out touching a thing? Breathe, everything is going to be fine. No matter how bad your clutter is, take heart from the fact that YOU created it so YOU can get rid of it.
The reason clutter accumulates is from a fear of making a mistake, a fear of losing something that might prove useful, but when you come to realize that you’re the boss and you can forgive yourself for making mistakes then you can get on and do something about creating order.
Clutter also accrues when you get stuck in the past and try to keep memories alive by holding onto things. Remember that we change over time and so things that were absolutely vital to us a decade ago will not necessarily be so today. If you’re looking to create positive changes in your life, you can be held back by things that remind you of what you no longer want to have in your life.
Make the commitment today to tackle your clutter, make those vital decisions and unlock the brilliant new stress-free life you want and
Clutter can also lead to despair. You come home of an evening and instead of feel- ing like you’re home, you feel like you’re in a stranger’s …show more content…
There wasn’t a square inch of that studio that wasn’t being used to the extreme in serving her and her life. To the untrained eye, walking into her studio, you’d think it was the epitome of clutter with things everywhere but, in fact, her living space was the exact opposite of clutter as she needed and, importantly, used everything in her space. She could get to everything easily to clean it and she found looking at her things inspiring and uplifting.
Clutter is defined by how you feel about it. Another person could have the exact same number of things in his home and feel weighted down and miserable about it. This is because our things exert an influence on us. They tell the world who we are and they reflect the decisions we’ve made about our lives. If you feel the weight of clutter upon you, it isn’t the physical things that are weighing you down, it is the decisions you have to make about who you are and what you want in your life.
And let’s be clear about this. Every single thing you own is a decision you’ve made and so getting rid of clutter is not about sourcing bags and boxes and arranging sales and giveaways or even making a room look nice, it is about making …show more content…
So how much more stressful are the many more you’ll have to make on your decluttering journey?
Okay, does this make you feel ready to abandon all hope and go back to bed with- out touching a thing? Breathe, everything is going to be fine. No matter how bad your clutter is, take heart from the fact that YOU created it so YOU can get rid of it.
The reason clutter accumulates is from a fear of making a mistake, a fear of losing something that might prove useful, but when you come to realize that you’re the boss and you can forgive yourself for making mistakes then you can get on and do something about creating order.
Clutter also accrues when you get stuck in the past and try to keep memories alive by holding onto things. Remember that we change over time and so things that were absolutely vital to us a decade ago will not necessarily be so today. If you’re looking to create positive changes in your life, you can be held back by things that remind you of what you no longer want to have in your life.
Make the commitment today to tackle your clutter, make those vital decisions and unlock the brilliant new stress-free life you want and