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Time
Clutter drains you of your time. If you live in a cluttered place, you will spend extra time looking for lost items: keys, money, shoes, tools, etc.
And even when you’re looking right at the lost item, it becomes difficult to see when surrounded by clutter.
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Stress
Examples of stress clutter can cause:
- Having guests over becomes an embarrassment or an event that takes all-day preparation.
- Each room carries visual reminders of all the work that needs to be done in the way of cleaning.
- According to the principles of feng shui, clutt...
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Cull the Clutter
- Go in every room and divide your things into four boxes: things to donate, things to throw away, things to keep, and things to store. If you don’t need it or love it, consider getting rid of it.
- Go through your box of things to keep and find a place for everything.
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Keeping your home organized:
- If a job takes around 30 seconds or less to do, do it immediately: put away your shoes or sort your mail.
- Watch your ‘hot spots’. Clutter tends to accumulate in the same places: the front door, the kitchen table.
- When you take something out, you should simply...
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A Realistic Level of Clutter
Guidelines to follow to help you decide where you should draw the line on clutter:
- Company. Do you like to have your home neat enough to have drop-in company?
- Organization. Is your home organized enough that you can generally find everything you’re look...
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Money
- When you don’t have financial papers organized, bills can get lost, causing you to accrue fees for being late with the payments.
- Replacing lost items and buying duplicates of those we didn’t realize we already had can carry a cost that adds up quickly.
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A plan of action that works
Look at what is left on your drains and incompletions list. Consider if they are all items you do have control over.
- Tackle your incompletions list: delegate or outsource, identify if you’re missing a resource to complete the item and, if so, how you’ll find ...
Spend time with loved ones
If you’re struggling with feeling the gratitude in the moment, go spend time with your friends and family. It will give you a chance to practice your acts of gratitude on people that you care about.
Make sure you’re listening intently the next time someone shares a story wi...
Move your clutter out of context
When we see objects settled into a particular place over time, it becomes hard to imagine where else they might go. So put your clutter into a new context.
Once you detach things from their settled places, it’s much easier to decide what to do with them.
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