What would you do if someone invited themselves to your home? Maybe a friend or relative who says they are looking for a bed for a night or two, could they stay with you?

(Although let’s be honest, they’re rarely that subtle!)

Maybe your heart rate and anxiety levels would go through the roof and your mind would immediately jump to working out how you can prevent this from happening, what plausible excuse you can give.

Maybe, because you’re a people pleaser, you go into auto-pilot and mentally work out where you can try to  ‘hide’ your clutter, the classic moving the clutter from corner to corner, room to room, so they can visit without seeing much of the clutter. Or you think about how you can guide them around your home in a way that they see the minimum amount of clutter possible.

Would it be so wrong to claim you’ve been burgled?

Why do we do this? Because we feel our clutter is a visible reflection on us, and other people will naturally make a heap of assumptions and judgements about us when and if they see it, because we’d do the same to them. Our clutter can also define the assumptions WE make about ourselves and our identity.

Our sense of Identity develops from three key things:

1. Identifying and Developing our Potential
2. Choosing our Life Purpose
3. Finding ways to apply that potential to achieve our life purpose.

Clearing our clutter is a challenge because our clutter has always represented the possibilities of what we COULD do with our lives (our potential), things we COULD be really good at, and that MIGHT be the life purpose we’ve never felt we’ve had. If we let go of our clutter, we also let go of those endless possibilities…..

Identity Crisis

As we start successfully clearing our clutter, letting go of the past, clearing whole areas and rooms, it’s not uncommon for people to experience what can best be described as an identity crisis. We’ve lived so much of our life being defined by our clutter that as we clear it, we become uncertain or confused about who we really are and who we will be without our clutter.

That’s why it’s so important to get clarity about what your Best Life will look, sound, feel and be like, so you’re focusing on the things that really matter to YOU, help you have a sense of purpose, and enable YOU to achieve your full potential.

For some people that can be extra challenging if they feel they haven’t (yet) found their life purpose or achieved their potential. If that’s the case for you, be patient and keep going. It might be that you discover your potential and life purpose on the Journey.

I know that my own clutter challenge was driven by an unclear sense of identity, and I only got a clear sense of my life purpose once I had discovered the Journey, cleared my clutter, and realised my life purpose was to help other clutterholics start living their Best Lives.

In the past you may not have had a sense of what your life purpose was, but on your Journey, anything’s possible in your future Best Life.

You can clear your clutter fast, or you can clear your clutter forever, but you can’t clear your clutter forever, fast.

To find out how Clare can help you clear your clutter Forever, without the need for an expensive home visit, click here now: https://www.clutterclearing.net/clares-help-centre/