ROUTINE

There are several secrets of success on your Clutter Clearing Journey. The most important of these is getting into a routine of simply ‘Doing the Doing’ – yet it’s usually the hardest to achieve.

Many people tell me, when they start their Journey, that making time to be the minimum of a Successful Snail won’t be a challenge for them because they’re retired, don’t have a job, they’re very committed to clearing their clutter, or because they will work on it before or after work, and at weekends.

Yet although they may start their Journey consistently ‘Doing the Doing’, thriving on what they’re learning and realising in orientation week, they don’t manage to maintain that momentum or get into routine. It’s not because they’re lazy as many people think. It’s not because they don’t desperately want to clear their clutter. Here are 5 common reasons why people struggle to get into – and stick to – a routine on their Clutter Clearing Journey.

1. Denial

You haven’t (yet) accepted that you have to do less of something else to make time for your Clutter Clearing Journey. You think you can ADD your Clutter Clearing Journey to your existing to-do list, but you can’t. You won’t succeed until you accept and adapt.

2. Unrealistic Expectations

Not only do you fill in your weekly planner as if you have more than 168 hours a week, or don’t need any time to sleep, you are also unrealistic about how much you can get done in a day, and how long things will actually take you to do. You set start times for things that don’t need start times, thinking you’re being super organised and efficient, yet you feel instantly overwhelmed when you don’t start at the exact time you said you would start, and are much more likely to give up starting at all because you realise you don’t have enough time or energy to do everything. As a result, it’s always your Journey time that gets sabotaged.

3. No Contingency

You don’t allow contingency time on your weekly planner because you tell yourself to have too much to do. You therefore don’t allow for the unexpected, for life to get in the way, or for things to take longer than they actually take to finish. As a result, you end up using your Journey time as contingency time for other things.

4. Being In-Time

People who struggle with clutter are predominately in-time. This means they’re impulsive, driven by their emotions, struggle to focus and finish things, and even if they plan ahead, they fail to follow a weekly planner by protecting their time boundaries. Consequently, if they feel like doing something fun in the moment, even though they planned to do their Journey, they’ll do the other thing that is going to be more fun instead.

5. No Accountability

If no one knows what you planned to do, and there are no external consequences to you for not working on your Journey, you’re going to struggle to get into a routine. There’s a reason why Private Journey Members get into a routine much quicker and easier than Group or DIY Journey members. (the financial consequences).

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/