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Coming to Terms with Your Clutter Personality |
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"Clutter is the stuff that is keeping our homes from being what we need them to be. Clutter is too much and too many. Too many toys. Too many clothes. Too many things to do on a Saturday morning. Clutter complicates life without adding anything to it. Clutter is the meaningless getting in the way of the meaningful."
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"Both inside your home, and inside your head can get cluttered all too easily, and if we can’t identify the issue and deal with that, then the clutter will keep coming back no matter how much decluttering we do – decluttering is only the surface layer – you have to understand the underlying issues to make it a permanent change."
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Identifying Your Underlying Issues |
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The Disabling Power of Decisions and Relationships |
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Identifying Your Clutter Personality |
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The procrastinator is a person who struggles with making decisions and acting on them. This person's home is cluttered with piles of stuff that was never really assigned a place within their space.. Other items lay about waiting to be returned to their designated space. In addition, procrastinators hold onto items that need to be returned to others and/or items that no longer work, not because they can't let them go, but because they can't make the decision or the time to get rid of them.
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THE WORRIER
Type of clutter: Clutter resulting from guilt or fear. Worriers are often caught up in a cycle of self-imposed guilt. "I paid too much for that item, I can't just get rid of it." "My great aunt gave me that. It would hurt her feelings if I gave it away." That sort of thing. To a degree, most of us have a little bit of worrier in us. That said, the true worrier is overly concerned about what might happen to the point of being unable to see the negative impact that results from keeping unwanted items. |
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“To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To get rid of what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a closet or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? If things had feelings, they would certainly not be happy. Free them from the prison to which you have relegated them. Help them leave that deserted isle to which you have exiled them. Let them go, with gratitude.”
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