If you are overrun with paper, you’re overwhelmed. Just like any pile of clutter, a pile of paper seems to be a pile of decisions to be made, and paper decisions are the most overwhelming. But the same strategies that work with any kind of clutter work with paper clutter too. Get into the mind-set that your goals are “less” and “better”—that anything you can do to reduce the overall mass of paper clutter in your home will be worth the effort. Giving yourself permission to do something without the pressure of solving this never-ending problem once and for all is giving yourself permission to
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