The Clutter Fairy Weekly #136
Eating an Elephant: The Power of Habits in a Decluttered Life
Unproductive habits can lead to excessive accumulation, stagnation, and clutter. But useful habits can turn small increments of work into gigantic progress over time. In episode #136 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the role of habits in keeping us stuck in our clutter or giving us the power to make meaningful change in our homes and our lives.
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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.
Out With the Old
This week’s assignment is to examine an unproductive habit that you’d like to modify or eliminate:
- Identify a habit that you’d like to modify or subtract from your routine. (No habit is too small for this assignment.)
- Notice where, when, and under what circumstances you do this habit. What action or pathway are you stuck in?
- Think about what triggers this habit. Examine the context.
- Consider how you might shift the triggering circumstances or related habits.
- Write down your intention to react differently (or not at all) to the trigger(s) you’ve identified.
- Practice making the shift(s) you’ve identified.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
Upcoming surgery / limitations
Creating a safe environment for myself before surgery date so safe recovery.