Karen started her Journey in January 2022.

As Karen explains:

I had been a member of Clare’s 12-week Success Club back in 2011, and her advice about how to clear your clutter hasn’t changed in all those years! The thing that did change was my willingness to accept that I needed support and accountability to ‘do the doing’, that dealing with my clutter was going to take longer than I wanted it to take, and that I needed regular support and accountability to do it.

In 2021, when Clare said she was launching a new, improved Success Club that involved daily group sessions, 5 days a week I jumped at the chance to join. It was the part-time course that had the structure and routine I needed. I had to show up 5 days a week to ‘do the doing’. I had just retired so it meant I would still have a morning routine to make sure I got up and didn’t go to bed too late, and the afternoons and evenings to myself.

(The Success Club Members) meet online, on zoom for 1 or 3 hours a day, 5 days a week with weekends off, to support, share or ‘do the doing’ together. We’ve got each other through some very tough times, especially on step 1. When we started, we all agreed to have a ‘Success Club Code’ where we all agreed that we would all treat it like a part-time course, follow the Clutter Clearing term time schedule, and save the money we all hoped to save on the Journey so we could all have a reward of meeting up when we had all completed the Journey. 

Of course, people have been ill, and a few people have had bereavements over the years, but they still turned up online at least once a week just to check-in with us all, even if they weren’t ‘doing the doing’. We’ve all felt the resistance to just ‘doing the doing’.  You must learn that feeling resistance or feeling uncomfortable isn’t a reason to give up, it’s a sign that you’re in the learning and change zone. 

I was surprised how difficult it was for me to delete and unsubscribe from e-mails in Step 2. Like many of us, we realised it was the ‘just in case’ and ‘might come in useful’ excuse that we use with our physical clutter. Learning to let go and unsubscribe from e-mails on steps 2 and 3 made it easier to let go of my physical clutter.

I didn’t tell my friends or family what I was doing. I’m sure they would have become impatient to start seeing a difference. No one in the Success Club started clearing their big and bulky backlog clutter until 2023, and some members did get pressure from friends or family to just get on with it. The advantage of not telling anyone what I was doing was that when I cleared my entrance hallway, they noticed immediately. I think they assumed I’d just moved it all, like I did in the past. They looked really confused, wondering where I’d put it all! One friend even asked if I’d moved it all to storage. That’s when I started telling them about the Journey.

What surprised me the most was that I was able to keep areas and rooms clutter free. Clare says you really notice the shifts in your thinking when you notice you’re not accumulating as much and clutter free areas are staying clutter free. I’ve never experienced that before.

What I like most about the Journey is that you’re always in control. You go at a pace that’s comfortable for you. All of us in the Success Club have become lifelong friends. With the money we all saved with the weekly shopping challenge we can afford to travel to see each other in our home countries – one trip to the UK, one to the USA. I can’t wait to be a first guest in the clutter free spare bedroom of one of the Success Club members!

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/