My father once told me, “People are very reluctant to make a change, so when I started thinking that it might be time to switch jobs, I knew I probably should’ve switched jobs six months ago.” Along the same lines, people are reluctant to relinquish their possessions, so if I think that it might be time to discard an item, I probably should’ve done so already—especially if that thought occurs to me more than once. Now, if three times the thought has occurred to me, “I wonder if I should get rid of that,” I get rid of it.
