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OLD BELIEFS
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
EXPECTATIONS:
BOUNDARIES:
BELIEFS:
I easily break projects down into manageable steps and take action.
When you consider it as a communication tool of your wise self, clearing clutter becomes an opportunity to graduate, spiritually, to the next soul level, and to begin living more fully and authentically.
It’s fun to live in pursuit. We love the chase. It can be exciting to go after a goal. Think of the rush you get when you consider starting a diet on a Monday. You feel that buzz inside, excited to finally take some action. Then Monday
comes, and you decide it’d be better to start next week, so you have doughnuts for lunch.
Your first line of defense with clutter management is to limit the items you bring into
your life by being selective in what you accept and buy.
Decline hand-m...
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Cut unwanted items off at the pass.
Buy quality over quantity.
The decision of what to wear is much easier when you have less to choose from!
Sort your mail.
Like snail mail, e-mail can accumulate quickly. To support your commitment to simplify your life, take a moment to unsubscribe from e-mail lists so you don’t have to spend time deleting them every time they come. While it doesn’t take a lot to delete unwanted e-mail, it does take an energetic toll each time those messages come in.
Statistically, we wear 20 percent of our wardrobe 80 percent of the time,
so make it a habit to review your wardrobe
at
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the end of each season. What items did you wear the most? Use this information as a clue about the types of clothes you love. Are these favorites still in good condition? If not, are they repairab...
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1. Gather as many books as feasible in one room.
2. Do a quick, gut-reaction sort into piles of Keep, Donate, and Maybe books. Don’t labor over decisions here. You are practicing listening to your intuition as you do this part of the sorting process.
3. Take the Donate pile, box up or bag the books, and put it by the...
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it to your car the next t...
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out.
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Go through your Keep pile. Does each and every book there truly deserve a place in your life?
Now it’s time to dig into the Maybe pile.
Coffee shops or cafés.
Little Free Library.
Used bookstores.
Prison Book Program.
Goodwill Industries International.
Local thrift stores.
“Once it’s out of my house, it doesn’t come back in.”
Let this guide be a living and breathing support system that you can tap in to over and over. Go through this book more than once. Do the exercises slowly and intentionally. You’ll be at a different place each time you do, and you’ll learn more and more about yourself and your patterns with each pass.
