Rethink and Reframe Your Clutter Language: The Power of Words 2

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.

Recite, Reflect, Reframe!

This week’s assignment is to spend time thinking about the language we use to talk about our lives and our stuff, with the goal of talking in a clearer, more thoughtful, and more self-supportive way:

• Recite: What negative things do you casually or habitually say about (or even to) your stuff? Write down or record audio or video of a few words, phrases, or statements that you’ve heard yourself using.
• Reflect: Contemplate or meditate on what these expressions reveal about your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about your home and belongings. Are they honest? Exaggerated? Self-deprecating? Do they echo a negative opinion that someone else has expressed?
• Reframe: For each negative word or phrase on your list, write or dictate an affirmation or positive sentiment as a counterpoint. For example, if you wrote “I’m a disorganized person,” you might replace that statement with, “I have a full, meaningful, active life, so sometimes I struggle with organization.”

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