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When we struggle with clutter, it is common that we have well-meaning friends and family who see us struggling and naturally want to help us clear our clutter. Friends, family and even the authorities often try to persuade us to deal with our clutter when we’re simply not ready, because they don’t understand that our…

The myth that clutter is ‘just’ stuff significantly underestimates the emotional and psychological complexities connected with it. This myth implies that people who struggle with clutter simply need to ‘get rid’ the belongings they don’t need to achieve order. However, this fails to recognise the profound attachments and meanings that we attach to our possessions.…

  We might tell people that we’re OK with living with our clutter, but that’s only because we don’t want them to start putting us under pressure to just get rid of it all FAST. Although we know that just getting rid of our clutter won’t solve anything (we might even have tried that and…

YOU ‘SHOULD’ START WITH THE BIGGEST MOST CLUTTERED AREA OR ROOM FIRST You decide to try to declutter – again. You decide to start on the area or room that you believe is going to make the biggest improvement to how you feel and what you see in your home the fastest. You decide to…

YOU ‘SHOULD’ BE ABLE TO MAKE AN INSTANT DECISION Hands up if you’ve ever had someone help you try to declutter, and that person has pressurised you to make an instant decision? (Which of course just increases our feelings of anxiety and overwhelm). There’s no ‘should’ and there’s no ‘instant decision’ when it comes to…

PEOPLE WHO HAVE A CLUTTER CHALLENGE ARE STUPID OR LAZY People who don’t struggle with clutter think it, even if they don’t say it (although a surprising number of people do say it out-loud!). If we’re not careful, we can start to believe it ourselves and think that there must be something wrong with us.…

YOU HAVE TO FEEL MOTIVATED TO ‘DO THE DOING’ If that was true, I would never have successfully cleared my clutter. Here are five reasons why it’s a myth that you have to feel motivated to ‘Do the Doing’. 1. Your Motivational Wave On your Journey you will learn about and experience the motivational wave.…

MYTH YOU MUST FEEL MOTIVATED TO DEAL WITH YOUR CLUTTER If you believe this myth then I suspect you procrastinate, avoid, and give up dealing with your clutter because you are waiting to feel motivated. Newsflash: If you only work on your Journey when you feel motivated, you will never Clear your Clutter Forever. When…

MYTH YOU SHOULD START BY GOING THROUGH YOUR PHYSICAL CLUTTER It’s not surprising that people believe this myth when all the decluttering TV programmes and books show the ‘experts’ diving straight in, going through things ‘encouraging’ people to ‘get rid of’ as much as possible. However, when you start trying to deal with your clutter…

MYTH I CAN’T LET GO OF SOMETHING THAT WAS A GIFT Many people mistakenly think that if something in their clutter was a gift, then somehow the usual rules of making realistic decisions don’t apply. For some reason, when it comes to gifts, we stop thinking about whether we NEED it and will USE it…