What Your Clutter Is Trying to Tell You

by Kerri L. Richardson

BELIEFS: This exercise will run the course of several weeks. It takes time to create and establish a new, empowering belief. Take it step-by-step as outlined below, and you’ll be on your way! 1. Identify the belief you’d like to reverse. Consider any default thinking that gets in your way. Thoughts like: • I don’t have what it takes. • I’m not motivated. • I have no willpower. • My needs don’t matter. • I never finish what I start. 2. Come up with a powerful opposite belief. Using the examples above, opposite beliefs would be something like: • I have everything I need to succeed. • I easily break projects down into manageable steps and take action. • I’m patient and loving with myself as I step out of my comfort zone. • To be able to care for others, I must care for myself first. • I easily follow through on the projects and tasks that matter. 3. Start keeping a Belief Book. Once you have your new belief (one that makes you say, “Hell, yeah!”), write it down 10 times before bed every night for at least two weeks. Keep your book on your nightstand with a pen as a reminder. You’re about to have great access to your subconscious during your sleep, so it’s a perfect time to plant this new positive seed. 4. Act as if. Now that you’ve been planting the seed for a bit, it’s time to begin walking as if it’s fully true and integrated. This behavior will be the validation the new belief needs to take hold. For example, you might challenge yourself to decline a handful of extraneous ...

Once you determine what the underlying threads in your clutter are, you still may struggle to get rid of it. Maybe you’d rather keep it? Your clutter might be helping you in ways you don’t even realize. 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. And that can feel scary. What will life look like then? Maybe it’s better to keep things as they are rather than to risk change. It’s the dreaded fear of the unknown. We hear that expression a lot, but is it even a thing?

The pressure of the expectations is enough to keep the clutter on your desk, your dream partner at bay,

The old adage “Actions speak louder than words” is the main motto of that powerful energy that’s waiting to rally behind you. You can say you want to improve your finances, but if you’re blowing through money, not paying bills on time, or not using a streamlined bookkeeping system, your actions are saying just the opposite.

To help determine how you might be benefiting from hanging on to your clutter, complete the following sentences. Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind. Don’t censor it. This is for your eyes only. Then reread your answers and dig even deeper. Once my clutter is gone, I’ll be able to _______________. I’m excited about being able to finally do that because ______________________. I’m nervous about being able to finally do that because ______________________. I’ll be happier once I’m finally able to do that because ______________________. The consequences I’ll have to face once I’m finally able to do that are ______________________.