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How Can You Succeed At Decluttering In 2024?

Stay Committed To Your Decluttering Goals In 2024 

Decluttering and organizing one’s home is one of the most common goals we have for the new year. However, it’s not a goal that is commonly achieved. In fact, some evidence shows that as many as 80% of those who set the goal to declutter in the new year have failed that goal by February. February is here now! Are you ready to learn how to stay motivated while decluttering your home? 

Decluttering Checklists, Minimalist Tips, And More With Rita Wilkins 

Hi, I’m Rita Wilkins – known to many of you as the Downsizing Designer. I’m here to let you know that more isn’t always better – and you don’t have to live with the stress of a cluttered home! Like me, you can live with less and find more money, time, and freedom in the process. That’s why I’m eager to help you stay committed to decluttering in 2024. 

Try Minimalist Essentials – Learn How To Live Like A Minimalist 

My Minimalist Essentials can help you jumpstart your decluttering journey. With 60 pages of easy decluttering checklists, fun 30-day decluttering challenges, and so much more – you’re sure to find the decluttering methods and tips that work best for you! 

Minimalist Essentials is available now as both a digital download as well as a physical paperback copy of the Minimalist Essentials workbook. Ready to find more tips and tricks to help you declutter? Visit the Design Services online store to find decluttering tools, decluttering checklists, online decluttering courses, and more. You can also find me on my YouTube channel, where I discuss there the unique challenges of decluttering and how to overcome them. 

Rita Wilkins Offers Lifestyle Design And Interior Design Services  

Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? Call Design Services LTD at 302-475-5663 to discuss your design needs. You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? You can schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with me today. My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon.  

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Harness The Power of Letting Go for A Simpler and Happier Life

Clutter silently sabotages our health, our wealth, our well-being, and our overall happiness.

Messy spaces trigger strong emotions causing stress often making it nearly impossible to rest and relax in our own homes.Visible and invisible clutter leads to an underlying feeling of discontent and dissatisfaction with our homes and ourselves. Out-of-control clutter breeds even more clutter, frequently leading to a downward spiral and sense of hopelessness ever to reclaim control of our homes and our lives.

The stress caused by clutter invites self-blame and self-sabotaging that slowly eats away at our self-esteem and any motivation to do anything about it.

However, this vicious self-perpetuating cycle can be disrupted by practicing the skill and the art of letting go. Letting go of stuff, stress, mental blocks, and anything that prevents us from moving forward.

Letting go is both an art and a skill that with practice gets easier over time, eventually allowing you to live a simpler, happier and more productive life.

Knowledge Is Power: Understanding The Power of Letting Go

The more you understand about the power of letting go, the easier it will become to embrace it and employ the benefits of this skill.

1. Letting go is much harder than holding on.

We attach meaning and significance to our possessions by allowing them to define who we are or who we would like to become. i.e., fancy cars, expensive, designer, clothing, and big houses.

When we understand this, it is easier to let go of possessions that try to define you.

2. Holding on to our stuff doesn’t fix anything.

In fact, holding on to our possessions prevents us from moving forward, to start a new life or to reinvent ourselves.

3. Wishing things would just go away doesn’t work either.

It’s hard work and it takes courage to declutter possessions you no longer need, use, or have multiples of.

4. We’ve been conditioned to believe that holding on or hanging in are signs of strength.

What you will likely discover in the decluttering process is that it takes much more courage and strength to let go. 

Remember…

You don’t have to let go all at once. Small steps are better than no steps at all.You don’t need to let go of everything.

Instead, decide what you want to keep. That’s far easier.

You don’t need to keep holding on.

If it no longer serves your current needs, let it go to reduce your clutter.

You don’t have to do it all alone.

Decluttering is a process that takes time and focus. Ask for help when you need it.

The power of letting go starts with you.

START by thinking differently about clutter and the benefits of letting it go.

STOP holding on to what’s been holding you back from a simpler, less cluttered and happier life.

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Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon. 

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How To Become A Minimalist: Decluttering Tools And Minimalist Essentials

Are You Overwhelmed By Clutter? Make 2024 Clutter Free With Decluttering Tips 

Having too much stuff and not enough space in your home is a stressful experience – but you don’t have to let the clutter in your home overwhelm you! You can take back your home through decluttering starting today. Make 2024 the year you take back your home from the clutter and stick to your New Year’s Resolution of getting rid of clutter. 

Are You Ready To Learn How To Get Started Decluttering? 

Hi, I’m Rita Wilkins. I know that for many, getting started decluttering is the first hurdle. Don’t worry! As your Downsizing Designer, I can help you learn how to get started, how to stay motivated, and so much more. Start your decluttering journey today. 

What Is Clutter? What Is Decluttering? 

Clutter is a common way to refer to a messy accumulation of things. Clutter happens when you have too much stuff and not enough space. Clutter can cause stress by making it more difficult to move through your home or even just more difficult to find the things you actually need. Decluttering is the process of getting rid of that clutter. 

Minimalist Decluttering Tips Help You Get Rid Of Clutter 

When you learn how to declutter, you can enjoy a simpler, more minimalist lifestyle. How can you learn to get rid of clutter so you can live a clutter-free life in 2024? With the help of the minimalist decluttering tools in my Minimalist Essentials workbook! 

Minimalist Essentials comes with all of the following: 

Easy decluttering checklists Fun 30-challenges to overcome clutter Tips for emotional clutter Decluttering progress trackers Over 100 places to donate and more! 

Get your 60-page all-in-one decluttering companion and planner today. A digital download of Minimalist Essentials is available now, and you can also buy the paperback Minimalist Essentials workbook on Amazon. Find more decluttering tips and tricks through the Design Services online store today! Try decluttering tools, decluttering checklists, online decluttering courses, and more. 

Rita Wilkins Offers Lifestyle Design And Interior Design Services  

Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? Call Design Services LTD at 302-475-5663 to discuss your design needs. You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? You can schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with me today. My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon.  

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Learn How To Get Started Decluttering With Minimalist Essentials

What Is Clutter? How Do I Declutter My Life? 

It can be all too easy to allow your home to become cluttered. You accumulate too many things over the years, and by the time a new year comes you find that you don’t have enough space for all of those things. Clutter can take over your home – becoming a source of stress and preventing you from navigating your home and finding the things you need in your day-to-day life. Don’t worry! You can get rid of clutter starting today. Make this New Year the year you dedicate yourself to decluttering and minimalism. 

Seek Help Getting Rid Of Clutter In Your Home 

You don’t have to figure out how to declutter all on your own – I’m here to help you! Hi, I’m Rita – your Downsizing Designer. After my decluttering journey, I’ve decided to dedicate myself to helping others learn through helpful decluttering tips and tricks. I can teach you how to get started decluttering, how to stay motivated while decluttering, how to let go of items – and more! 

Minimalist Essentials Teaches You How To Declutter In The New Year 

You’ve set a goal for the new year to get rid of items and declutter your home. But how can you accomplish this goal? Letting go of items may seem difficult – but once you learn how to let go of items and declutter your home, you’ll be able to enjoy the minimalist lifestyle you’ve been seeking. Where can you start learning? 

With my Minimalist Essentials workbook! This all-in-one decluttering companion and planner will help you get started and keep you on track. Inside, you’ll find 60 pages of useful decluttering tools and minimalist tips – including easy decluttering checklists, fun 30-day decluttering challenges, progress trackers, and more! 

Learning how to choose which items to let go becomes easier thanks to the Minimalist Essential’s tips for emotional clutter – and you’ll even have a few ideas on where you can donate the items you no longer need with the list of 100 places to donate! 

You can get Minimalist Essentials digitally and as a paperback copy! The digital download of Minimalist Essentials is available now at the Design Services online store. If you prefer a physical copy, buy the paperback Minimalist Essentials workbook on Amazon today! Visit the Design Services online store for more decluttering tools, decluttering checklists, online decluttering courses, and more. 

Rita Wilkins Offers Lifestyle Design And Interior Design Services  

Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? Call Design Services LTD at 302-475-5663 to discuss your design needs. You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? You can schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with me today. My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon.  

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Decluttering? 4 Tricks to Stay Motivated When You Want to Quit

How do you stay motivated when you want to quit?

That’s the million-dollar question that many would love to know the answer to because it can be applied to just about anything when you have the urge to quit:

Losing weightGetting fitDecluttering your stuff

Maybe if you’re a robot you’re not tempted to quit, but if you’re a human…

You get overwhelmed and exhausted.You procrastinate and make excuses.You get decision fatigue.How to be successful at your decluttering journey in 2024

You’re definitely not alone in this decluttering journey. If you want to be successful at decluttering your home in 2024, staying motivated and staying focused is essential.

This blog is intended to support your success, ignite your passion, and boost your motivation so that you can conquer the urge to quit and regain your momentum.

When I started to prepare for this blog, I promised you 4 tricks to stay motivated when you want to quit, but once I got started, I came up with 24!

Here are my top 4 tricks and hacks to stay motivated to help you keep moving forward1. Commit to this mantra: Quitting is not an option.

As challenging as the decluttering journey might be, rest if you must, but don’t quit.

2. Plan a party!

Invite friends to a party at your home in 3 weeks. There’s nothing more motivating than challenging yourself to a deadline like this. Try it. It works!

3. First, decide what to discard or donate.

This simple shift in the way you think about the process of decluttering is golden. It makes decluttering so much easier when you start to think this way.

4. Let go of perfection.

Forget Perfection. It only slows you down.

Decluttering is a messy process that takes time, but it also requires that you make focused decisions.

You’ll be surprised at how much faster and easier it is to decide when you stop trying to get it right 100% of the time.

20 more ways to simplify decluttering that will help you stay motivated5. Just get moving.

Without action, nothing happens. Commit to taking one step, and then another. One shelf, one drawer, one closet at a time.

6. Set realistic goals.

When you set smaller, more attainable goals, you see results faster.

Once you start to see progress, you will regain momentum.

7. Take “before” and “after” pictures.

What’s more motivating than seeing the results of your efforts? Don’t forget this important step even if it’s just a small area.

Posting the “before” and “after” pictures are intended to motivate you, keep you going, and also to remind you that you that you want to move forward, not backward.

8. Create a vision for your life after clutter.

What will you do and with whom with the extra time and freedom you have when you live clutter-free?

9. Understand the consequences of quitting.

What if you quit?

Ask yourself: If you’ve come this far, do you want to return to your former cluttered life?

Feel the emotions associated with how it was before and how it is after you decluttered an area.

10. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Decluttering is a marathon, not a sprint. Yes, you will get tired and overwhelmed, but it will be worth it. Kick butt when you start to feel sorry for yourself.

11. Understand why decluttering is important to you.

Knowing your “Why.”

(i.e., living a simpler life with less) will be the inspiration you can depend on when you’re tired and want to quit. It will help reignite your passion.

12. Restart in an easy area.

If you are looking for easy areas to declutter where you can see quick results that boost your motivation, try these areas:

Linen closetNightstandJunk drawerMedicine cabinet13. What worked for you in the past when you got stuck and lacked motivation?

Build upon your past experiences to know how to kickstart your decluttering efforts once again.

14. Review your progress weekly.

Tracking your progress is critical to conquering the urge to quit and to remain focused to the end. Review how far you’ve come each week.

15. Play a decluttering game.

Include your family in a fun 30-minute decluttering game every day. Make sure to set your timer.

ToysClothingBooksMagazines

Have fun. Don’t take the decluttering and yourself seriously.

16. Play your favorite music or podcast.

This will help you relax and focus and enjoy the process of decluttering.

17. Decide to decide.

In order to make your valuable time more effective, before you start a decluttering session, decide to decide.

Commit to making quick, deliberate decisions so you can make good progress.

18. Which decluttering method or methods work best for you.

Figure out whether you are a fast declutterer and prefer quick bursts of decluttering energy, or if you are a slower declutterer and prefer decluttering at a slower pace such as room-by-room method.

19. Use a decluttering checklist.

A checklist helps you stay focused and on track. Many people find the decluttering checklist essential to tracking their progress.

20. Take a break and don’t feel guilty.

Decluttering can be overwhelming and exhausting, both physically and mentally. We all need a break once in a while. Don’t feel guilty about taking a weekend or two off from decluttering. You’ll feel refreshed when you restart but make sure you commit to a time and date to restart.

21. Celebrate big and small wins!

Both are wins.

Reward yourself with something that you like to do that will acknowledge your progress.

22. Give yourself grace.

When you believe you can, anything is possible. Keep going, never give up, but along the way, be kind and compassionate to yourself.

23. Know what time of day works best for you to declutter.

When do you have your best energy? What time works best for you? Schedule your decluttering sessions around those times.

24. Give yourself something to look forward to.

Make 2024 the year you started to look at your life differently. Make it your best year ever.

You’ve tried and failed before, but you’ve grown from it, you’ve learned from it. Become the hero of your own decluttering story.

We all have setbacks, but when you do, it’s important to still stay positive and believe you can conquer the urge to quit.

Stay focused on your vision for a clutter-free life, one that is peaceful, calm, and simple.

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Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon. 

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When Is The Best Time To Declutter? Learn With Minimalist Essentials

I Have Too Much Stuff, Not Enough Space! Minimalist Decluttering Tips For The New Year 

Are you tired of all the clutter taking up space in your home? Would you prefer to live a more minimalist lifestyle with minimalist décor? Do you find that you’re not sure how to get started decluttering, or when you should even start? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. You can make this new year the year you choose to declutter and become a minimalist. 

Take The First Steps To Declutter Today – Learn How To Become A Minimalist 

Hi, I’m Rita. You don’t have to learn how to get started decluttering all on your own. As the Downsizing Designer, I’m here to guide you. After seeing the benefits of decluttering in my personal life, I became dedicated to helping others learn how to let go of items with decluttering tips and lessons. If your New Year’s Resolution is to learn how to live clutter-free, I can give you the tools you need to succeed. 

When Is The Best Time To Declutter? Start Now! 

Perhaps you’ve fallen into the trap of feeling like you have to wait for the “best time” to start decluttering. The truth is, you don’t have to wait! The best time to start is now, as soon as possible. The sooner you begin your decluttering journey, the sooner you can enjoy the minimalist lifestyle you desire. 

Overcome Decluttering Challenges With Minimalist Essentials 

My Minimalist Essentials workbook is designed to be your essential decluttering tool, companion, and planner. This 60-page workbook includes: 

Easy decluttering checklists Tips handling for emotional clutter Fun 30-day challenges Progress trackers 100 suggested places to donate 

It’s not too late to give yourself the tools you need to accomplish a New Year’s Resolution to declutter your home. You can find a digital copy of Minimalist Essentials at the Design Services online store, or buy a paperback copy of the Minimalist Essentials workbook on Amazon. Be sure to take a look at the other decluttering tools and tips on the Design Services online store, too! Choose decluttering checklists, online decluttering courses, and more. 

Rita Wilkins Offers Lifestyle Design And Interior Design Services  

Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? Call Design Services LTD at 302-475-5663 to discuss your design needs. You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? You can schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with me today. My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon.  

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3 Simple Steps to Declutter the Most Challenging Areas in Your Home

If you want to learn how to declutter the most challenging areas in your home, you’ve got to read this blog and/or listen to this video on my YouTube channel. I will share with you three simple ways to declutter those areas once and for all.

We all probably have at least one or two areas of our home that are much more difficult to declutter than other areas have been. They challenge us, they overwhelm us with the thought of them… it gets pushed down to the bottom of our list because we don’t make time to get it done.

You avoided them perhaps, hoping that it would magically disappear. But in fact, every time you go near that area, you dread it, and it weighs you down.

That nagging feeling just won’t go away and it will probably even get worse until you stop procrastinating and just deal with it.

How to Finally Declutter Successfully

What if you could finally declutter that most challenging area once and for all so that you could free yourself from the guilt, angst, and other annoying emotions that pop up every time you even think about that space?

·       THAT ROOM COULD BE YOUR BASEMENT

Stacked with boxes and bins, old cribs, and bicycles that have been sitting in your basement ever since you moved five years ago.

·       THAT ROOM COULD BE YOUR GARAGE

Filled with garden tools you rarely use, old car, tires, boxes of donations waiting to get delivered to a donation site.

·       THAT ROOM COULD BE YOUR GUESTROOM

The room that has become the central dumping ground for everything you don’t know what to do with.

Perhaps you have the urge to purge and finally declutter the most challenging areas of your home.  

3 Simple Steps to Declutter That One Area You’ve Been Putting Off1.   Take a deep look at the challenging area.Pull up a chair, look at every corner and every inch of the room you’ve been telling yourself it’s “too hard” or it’s “too overwhelming.”Look at every box, every bin, every single trash bag that’s filled with stuff you have no idea what’s in it.Write it all down, what you see, what you are feeling.Make a detailed list.Take “before” pictures2.   Visualize the space as if it were empty and free of all of the stuff on that list

Think of ways that you could use the space if it were free of clutter

A game room for your kids or grandkids.A garage that has plenty of room to park your cars.A beautiful guest room you are proud of where you can welcome your guests.3. Visualize your family and yourself using the space that has previously been unusable.How will you use this newfound space?

As your mindset shifts from “too hard” and “too overwhelming” to “what’s possible for this room,” make a detailed checklist of all that you will need to do to make this a reality. 

Approximate the number of hours, days, or weeks it will take to declutter this area. Write it down.

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BONUS!4.   Schedule times and dates to declutter this area so that you can make it clutter-free as you envisioned.Put those dates and times on your calendar.Schedule your team to help you.Stage all necessary supplies (trash bags, boxes, markers, tape)Play your favorite, upbeat, music.Set a timer for 45 to 50-minute increments. Go!Sort into three boxes: dispose, donate, keep.Put all dispose items in the trash immediately.Put all donate items in your car to deliver to a donation site.Organize all items that you will keep.

As you are working, remind yourself of your vision, remind yourself that it’s not hard… You’re doing it! Remind yourself that it will take time and it will be worth it.

Celebrate Your Success

When you follow these three simple steps, what was considered hard is made simple because… You faced the project head-on and no longer pretended or denied that it existed.

In writing it down, and making a checklist, you were able to break down the project into more manageable parts so it was less overwhelming.In visualizing what the area could look like and how you could use it when it’s decluttered, you saw your space with a new set of eyes and created possibilities for it.In setting a time and a date, writing it down, you were holding yourself accountable you stopped, saying someday. Instead said today’s the day to accept that urge to purge and just get it done.

I’d love to hear back from you on how these three steps Worked for you finally decluttering a room that had previously been a big challenge.

Feel free to reach out to me at ritawilkins@ritawilkins.com 

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Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon. 

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Make This Year Clutter-Free With Minimalist Essentials

New Year, New You: Become A Minimalist Through Decluttering Tips And Tricks 

If the clutter in your home is overwhelming but you don’t know how to start decluttering – don’t worry, you’re not alone. You can choose a minimalist lifestyle by learning minimalist decluttering tips and tricks today! Choose to get started decluttering in the new year with Minimalist Essentials. 

How To Become A Minimalist Through Minimalist Decluttering 

Hello, I’m Rita. I know what it’s like to struggle with the idea of decluttering. However, once I got rid of 95% of what I once owned, I realized I had more money, time, and freedom to live my life the way I wanted to. Now, as your Downsizing Designer, I’m here to help you accomplish the same thing through my helpful decluttering advice. 

New Year’s Resolutions: Make The New Year Clutter-Free With Minimalist Essentials 

It’s a new year now. What better time to start your decluttering journey? With the help of Minimalist Essentials, you can learn how to get started decluttering and how to stay motivated while decluttering. Make this year a clutter-free year and achieve your minimalist lifestyle and design goals. 

What Is Minimalist Essentials? 

Minimalist Essentials is a 60-page all-in-one decluttering companion and planner that will help you learn how to declutter in a way that works for you. This workbook comes with easy checklists to help you declutter, tips for dealing with emotional clutter, fun 30-day decluttering challenges, and more! This essential tool helps you stay on track with progress trackers and even makes it easy to find where to bring the items you’re getting rid of with a list of over 100 places to donate. 

Get your copy soon! A digital copy of Minimalist Essentials is available now at the Design Services online store, along with other decluttering tools such as decluttering checklists, online decluttering courses, and more. You can also get a paperback copy of the Minimalist Essentials workbook today! 

Rita Wilkins Offers Lifestyle Design And Interior Design Services  

Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? Call Design Services LTD at 302-475-5663 to discuss your design needs. You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? You can schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with me today. My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon.  

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Craving A Simpler Life with Less? Don’t Just Talk About It, Do It!

I ran into a former client recently and she said, “Deciding to live a simpler life, was the best thing I ever did for myself!”

She went on to say that she had absolutely no regrets about choosing not only to declutter her stuff but to also downsize to a smaller home.

She said that in the process she had come to embrace living with less and has learned to be grateful and content.

Take Back Control in Your Life

While it took time, she said that one of the most important lessons she learned was that in order to take back control of her own life so she could live life on her own terms, she had to stop worrying about what others would think or what society might be telling her she should do.

It had been 2 years since she got fed up with the constant stress and being overwhelmed by too much stuff and she said she never looked back on her decision to live that simpler life with less.

If this sounds vaguely familiar to you and you are craving to live a simpler and more abundant life with less stuff and less stress, maybe it’s time for you in 2024 to stop talking about it and just do it! To intentionally embrace, having enough and being enough.

While it’s tempting to jump right in and say let’s get started, there are a few very important steps that you need to take to achieve the best results and reach your goals. They will also help you stay focused on the areas of life that you need the most help in simplifying.

Follow the step-by-step method to get the results you want so you can gain momentum and build confidence on your journey to living more with less.  Step 1: Take time to assess all areas of your life to determine what needs to change to make life simpler.

The more we become aware and understand what needs to change on the inside, the faster and easier it will be to make changes on the outside.

In other words, we need to confront what’s going on the inside before we can make changes that will impact our life.

For example: You might want and need to declutter your home, but why do you continue to buy more stuff?You might want and need to reduce your debt, but why do you keep using credit cards to buy more?You might want and need to lose weight and get fit, but why do you hold onto bad eating habits?You might want more time to relax and enjoy your life, but why do you keep saying yes to everything and needlessly filling up your calendar? 

If you want to make positive lifestyle changes that will improve the quality of your life, you must first understand and become aware of why you continue to struggle with… excess clutter, excess debt, overeating, busyness, etc. 

Once you realize so much of what goes on the inside is directly tied to your emotions:

I.e., loneliness, stress, overwhelm, fatigue, etc.

Once you start to realize that we all try to distract ourselves, maybe even deny and hide from the pain of those same emotions that will help us feel better at least momentarily. I.e., buying those shoes or eating that chocolate.

Then, the underlying cause of consuming too much begins to make sense. We can see what’s going on, why we do what we do and why we continue to live a life with excess.

Only after you take the time to assess the root of the problem is, only then can you start to take back control of your life and set the stage for living a simpler life with less so you can live more.

Download Your Copy Today! Learn MoreStep 2: Clearly define what a simpler life looks like for you. 

Create a vision for what you want and don’t want, for what you want more of and less of.

For example:A Simpler Schedule: With white space on your calendar: One that is less busy to have more time and freedom to pursue what matters more to you.One with less to do and with less stress.One with more time to rest and even to do nothing.One that is balanced.A Simpler Home: A home that is uncluttered, organized, peaceful, calm, and welcoming.One that you look forward to coming home to.One where you can focus and be productive.One where you have less to do so you could have more time to simply enjoy your life.A Simpler Financial Life: A life that is free from debt where you make fewer impulse purchases, and where you are mindful of how you spend your moneyOne where you live well within your main budget and we have all you want and need so you consume much lessSimpler and Healthy Relationships: Quality relationships that are easy, uncomplicated and meaningful where you prioritize time together to make memories with family and friends.Simpler Routines and Habits: These help you prioritize and maintain a clutter-free home and happy, healthy, relationships, and financial life.Simpler Healthy Lifestyle: A lifestyle that doesn’t feel good, it’s good for your physical and mental health and well-being. One that is filled with contentment and gratitude for having enough.Step 3: Prioritize the areas in your life that need to be simplified first.

Start with those areas when simplified, will make the most immediate and greatest impact.

For example:Decluttering your home for peace and calm, reducing stress and overwhelm.·      Decluttering your calendar for more time for what matter most, reducing busyness and stressStep 4: Commit to the changes that will simplify your life.For example:     STOP Wanting and seeking moreDoing moreConsuming moreSTARTSaying yes to what you want more of.Saying no to what you want less of.Prioritizing the simplification of each area of your life.Living each moment.

When making these small, but meaningful changes daily, they will evolve into lasting changes that will have an impact the overall quality of your life so you can begin to experience and appreciate the little things that matter most

The paradox of living a simpler life: When you do less… you will live more!

Know that I am with you on your journey to living a simpler life with less.

Don’t wait! Let the decision to live a simpler life with less be the best thing you ever did for yourself!

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Post-Holiday Decluttering Tips: Minimalist Essentials

Don’t Let Clutter Ruin Your Life! Achieve The Minimalist Lifestyle You Deserve 

Having too much stuff and not enough space in your home is a stressful experience. You don’t have to live with the stress. Instead, you can embrace a minimalist lifestyle by learning how to declutter today. 

Minimalist Essentials And Minimalist Design 

Hello, Rita Wilkins here. As your Downsizing Designer, I’m dedicated to helping you achieve your minimalist design goals through decluttering. Perhaps you’re not sure how to get started decluttering. Perhaps you’ve tried to declutter and struggle to stay focused. Either way, you can find the tools you need for your decluttering journey here. 

Cleaning Up After The Holidays: Decluttering Minimalist Tips 

Do you find yourself with more clutter and mess once the holidays are over? Do you feel overwhelmed by the thought of sorting through that clutter? Do you wish you knew how to make decluttering easier to start and focus on? 

If so, you’re in luck! My Minimalist Essentials workbook provides you with what you need get declutter after the holidays. With over 60 pages of guides, tips, and tricks, you’ll be well on your way to living the minimalist lifestyle you desire in little to no time. What’s included in the Minimalist Essentials workbook? This 60-page all-in-one decluttering companion and planner comes with: 

Checklists for every item you own 5-step solution for emotional clutter Fun 30-day challenges Calendars to plan your journey Progress tracker for staying motivated A curated list of 100 donation spots Unique, effective decluttering methods by Rita 

Purchase your digital copy of Minimalist Essentials or paperback Minimalist Essentials workbook today! You can also find other tools to help you declutter when you check out the Design Services online store. Choose the decluttering material that’s right for you – including decluttering checklists, online decluttering courses, and more. 

Rita Wilkins Offers Lifestyle Design And Interior Design Services  

Do you want to learn more about downsizing and decluttering? Call Design Services LTD at 302-475-5663 to discuss your design needs. You can also connect with me by following me on Facebook and LinkedIn. Would you like complimentary advice from the downsizing designer? You can schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with me today. My book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom is now available in paperback, audio, and on Kindle! Get your copy soon.  

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