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Are you suffering from the endowment effect >

Are you suffering from the endowment effect?

A recent article in Scientific American by Bruce Hood discusses how the 'ownership of objects plays a crucial role in human identity' and explains what the endowment effect is. (09/01/2012)

Clare's Christmas Message >

A bit of fun before Christmas....

Enjoy! (15/12/2011)

Positive Comments flooding in >

As the Clutter College gets Closer to registration for the New Year Term, what are people saying about it?

Here is just a selection of comments that people have e-mailed Clare in response to the Clutter Clearing College.
(28/11/2011)

Clutter Clearing College is coming....... >

Friday 9th December 2011 will mark a signficant day in the world of Clutter Clearing.

The first ever Virtual Clutter Clearing College is being launched, and final preparations are being made for it.

Based on what my subscribers told me in a survey, I have developed something that builds on the tried, tested and guaranteed Clutter Clearing Process.

The Clutter Clearing Process already:

ensures that you learn how to clear the clutter yourself
ensures you overcome the overwhelm
ensures you actually clear the clutter (rather than just move it)
ensures you know how to make decisions and action those decisions (rather than ending up with endless piles)
ensures you focus and finish one room at a time (rather than flitting from room to room).

However, following the Process cannot deal with some of the issues people told me about that require a 1-2-1 approach, such as:

procrastination / making time
staying motivated
dealing with specific types of clutter
keeping on top of new and incoming things
maintaining a new system for more than a few days
getting support from people who understand what it's like to have clutter

So I've developed something that will also deal with these extra things.

It's called the Clutter Clearing College.

(21/11/2011)

Clearing our Clutter and our Mental Health >

New Research highlights the importance of clearing our clutter for our mental health.

New research published in the Scientific American Magazine (July / August 2011) discusses the relationship between stress and the risks of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Research on twins and monkeys has led to new developments and awareness about what are contributory factors.

According to the article, stress has been known to be a factor in depression and chronic anxiety. However, it’s a new concept that it’s a factor in neurodegenerative diseases, and doesn’t bode well for those of us with stressful jobs, busy lives, the increasing pressures of the modern world, living longer and yes, clutter, all of which are causing us extra stress. (22/10/2011)

This will help with the impulse buys. >

This will help with the impulse buys…….

Have you ever bought something because you liked the look of it and then, when you got it home or a few days or weeks later become bored or disinterested in it?

That initial allure in the shop fades and it becomes another impulse purchase that becomes clutter.

Well, according to an article in Scientific American Mind in the July / August 2011 issue, there’s a reason for that.

Research undertaken by 2 psychologists – Piotr Winkielman at the University of California, San Diego and John T Cacioppo at the University of Chicago undertook research that showed that the easier it was for someone to identify an object, the more the person liked it. How did they know? By recording minute changes in the persons ‘smile’ muscles.

What they also found was that the shape of an item matters. Sad people preferred things they had previously seen, and cheerful people were indifferent. They therefore concluded that familiar forms are reassuring for us, or give us a sense of security in an ‘unsafe environment’.

All this explains our impulse buys that become clutter. (15/10/2011)

Our brain cant forget the negative >

Our brain can’t forget the negative.

There’s an article in the Scientific American Mind magazine this month that talks about the issue of how our brain holds on to ‘false fact’s – even after they’ve been retracted.

If you’ve ever been on a jury or seen a TV dramatisation of a court, you’ll know that lawyers will intentionally say things that will be retracted or that they will be told is irrelevant, precisely because they know that once the jury has heard it, they won’t be able to forget it.

So what has this got to do with out Clutter Clearing? (15/10/2011)

Baby Hummingbird >

If ever you're getting impatient with your Clutter Clearing, watch this and see true dedication and patience.... (12/10/2011)

Against the wind >

Here's a video that shows that sometimes you just have to go 'with the wind', take the rough with the smooth and trust that you'll be OK on the other side.......

Hint: The getting started with the Clutter Clearing is the rough bit in the middle! (28/09/2011)

Size matters to a nation of hoarders >

As a new report by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) entitled ‘The Case for Space’ points out that ‘many feel that newly built homes aren’t big enough’, the UK’s leading Clutter Coach says she has been helping people deal with the practical consequences of smaller homes for the past 9 years.

It’s Wednesday and, for some inexplicable reason, Wednesdays are always busy for Clare Baker, a Clutter Coach who specialises in helping people clear their clutter and get organised. ‘2 - 4pm on a Wednesday is our peak time for enquiries’ explains Clare. I’ve no idea why. Perhaps people have spent the previous weekend trying to declutter on their own, failed, and can’t face the prospect of the approaching weekend’s attempts to declutter being just as futile. (15/09/2011)

It's called the Clutter Clearing College.

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