Yesterday’s Globe and Mail had an article about de-cluttering in which every expert interviewed had a different strategy—start in the basement, start small, start at random, start with a system. The strategy doesn’t matter. It’s about energy.
When you know how to align the energy in your home to match your goal, de-cluttering becomes easy, and just about any strategy will work. But jumping into action without understanding and changing what created the clutter in the first place is guaranteed to fail. That’s why even people who hire a professional organizer can still find themselves struggling with clutter.
People have clutter for a reason, and until that reason is taken away through personal change, no amount of action will make a lasting difference. The good news is that once people understand the process for change, big shifts can happen quickly.
Want my one big tip for dealing with clutter? If the thought of dealing with your clutter feels like a struggle before you even start, stop. Don’t even try. Until you get yourself to where the thought of dealing with your clutter feels like one big euphoric yee-haw!
whoo-hoo! roll the truck up and let’s get packing! spare yourself the agony. Clutter holds a lot of stuck and heavy energy, and until you have mentally and emotionally detached yourself from what is there, the heavy energy of your clutter will wear you out fast, even when you begin with the best of intentions.
So how do you get yourself into that whoo-hoo! state of mind? Well, that’s what my HouseHeal teaching is all about. It’s a process. It’s a simple, powerful process that totally changes how you see yourself and your home, and pulls you into action with ease. The
process makes so much sense and feels so right that it just becomes part of how you live.
It doesn’t matter if your issue is clutter, dirt, mess, arranging your furniture, decorating or general overwhelm—it’s all the same process to change it. In the end, it’s all about creating a beautiful, clean, organized home that feels good to live in and supports you in living a life that you love. In my HouseHeal teaching, I see over and over again the relief and excitement that people feel as everything they dream of suddenly becomes doable.
So how do you de-clutter? Once you align the energy, any way you like.
