Ten Factors Buried Under Your Clutter
Your Unique Real Life Clutter Story
On the surface clearing clutter doesn't seem so hard. It takes some muscle and your precious time. You do need to get supplies and to arrange logistics, like finding a place for donations.
So what's the big deal? Just do it, right? You set a day, roll up your sleeves, maybe buy a couple books on organizing. You start clearing, but soon feel heavy with confusion or anxiety. When you do ask for help, isn't it true that you often end up fighting with loved ones. Now you want to avoid the clutter, overwhelm, and conflict.
Clutter-clearing is difficult not because of all the stuff, but because of what is buried under the clutter. You know that you struggle with it all, but you don't know why deep down.
Powerful emotions are stirred up when you start messing with your clutter. All that clutter holds the stuff of life — hopes and dreams, personal losses, missed opportunities, or aborted efforts — as well as the good stuff you don't want to let go.
To gain ClutterClarity, let's explore the ten factors that lie under your clutter:
- Current Relationships
- Present Lifestyle and Interests
- Immediate Desires
- Personal Priorities
- Habits and Rules
- Personal and Cultural History
- Money Matters
- Individual Attitude
- Physical Health
- Personal Preferences
Each factor affects all of us, but not in the same way. The differences lie in how much weight each factor bears and how you weave individual factors together in your mind. The weight and weave create patterns of thinking, emotions, and the subsequent options you have available to clear your clutter.
One solution does not fit all. You don't have to adjust every factor to make clutter-clearing easier, just the ones that matter most. A slight adjustment to any one or more significant factor will change your perspective and open a whole new path to clutter-clearing. It's about precision and accuracy. There's no point in making an adjustment to something that does not significantly interfere with your getting clutter-clear.
Your ticket to relieving the burden of your clutter forever is by understanding and respecting your Unique Clutter Story — what brought you to today's mess.
Ask yourself:
- Which factors weigh most heavily on you?
- Together, what story do they weave?
- How can you rearrange your thinking about those factors to remove the burden of clutter?
Real Life Clutter Stories
- Making Room for Health
- Letting Go of Sad Memories
- Downsizing Creates Clutter
- Making a New Wardrobe Possible
- The Right Space for Control
- Accumulating What You Really Want
- Redefining Success and Enough
- Sharing Power and Profit
- Making Room for New Possibilities
- Being Loving with Less Choice
- Clutter Protection
- In Its Proper Place
- Replacing Old Rule with New Space
- Misplaced Frustration