A Houseful of Limitless Potential: Clutter and the Creative Mind

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Strive for Balance

This week’s assignment is to seek balance between making progress on decluttering and organizing efforts and making sure your creative spirit is well fed.

• Make an appointment this week to spend at least half an hour decluttering or organizing materials, tools, and supplies related to one of your creative outlets, such as an art form, craft, or hobby. (If you don’t practice any arts, crafts, or creative hobbies, work on stuff related to any recreational part of your life, such as books, music, cooking, DVDs, games, gardening, etc.)
• Keep the appointment. When you’ve finished, jot a few notes about what you were able to accomplish.
• Next, schedule an appointment to spend the same amount of time playing in the creative or recreational area that you worked on organizing.
• Keep the second appointment. If you feel any guilt or pangs of conscience about playing while there’s still so much work to be done in your home, refer back to the notes you wrote at the end of the first appointment.
• Reflect on whether your work session affected your ability to relax and be creative. Also, think about whether your playful session affected your feelings or attitude about the work of decluttering and organizing.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment