Positive Psychology for Clearing Clutter from Your Home and Head

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.

Positivity Challenge

This week’s assignment is to apply one of the positive-psychology principles we talked about in today’s show to your own decluttering efforts:

• Reflect on ways in which clutter in your home has had a negative impact on your mental health, ability to focus, memory, decision-making, or behavior.
• Explore using one of the approaches we described in this episode to your decluttering and organizing process:
  • Adopt a positive mindset.
  • Set a clear goal.
  • Practice gratitude.
  • Practice mindfulness.
  • Design a positive environment.
  • Employ “mindful home decor.”
  • Boost your sense of self-worth.
  • Increase confidence.
  • Manage stress and anxiety.
  • Experience catharsis.
• Notice anything that changes in your experience of working on decluttering projects. Do you feel any improvement in your mood or outlook? Is the work easier or more difficult? Do you feel different in any way about the process?

The links above will direct you to the spots in the video where we talked about each of these techniques so that you can listen again to the relevant sections.

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