The Clutter Fairy Weekly #264
Getting Honest With Yourself About What Works and What Doesn’t
Have you struggled with clutter for years, but keep feeling like you’re right back at square one? Maybe it’s time to take a critical look at the beliefs, assumptions, and routines that aren’t getting the job done. In episode #264 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits of thought and practice that keep us stuck in clutter and suggests strategies for bringing radically honest change to the work of decluttering and organizing.
Content in this episode is based on the results of audience surveys.
Some content in this episode is based on results of a survey of our audience.
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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.
Be Honest!
This week’s assignment is to take a deeper dive into the reasons behind one of your keep decisions.
- Identify an item that you’ve previously considered getting rid of, but ultimately decided to keep.
- Jot down one or two reasons that you’ve chosen to keep the item.
- Reflect on whether your reasons for keeping the item might be providing cover for one of the issues we discussed in this episode:
- You keep the item out of a sense of nostalgia.
- You keep the item out of a sense of guilt.
- You keep the item out of uncertainty or fear.
- You keep the item for a hypothetical “just in case” situation.
- You keep the item because it cost a lot of money.
- Now consider whether the reasons you noted for keeping the item still hold up to close scrutiny. Do you truly love, want, use, and/or need this item? If not, are you ready to let it go?
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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