Don’t clean it up too quickly.Ī journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. People will forget what you said, forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. The heart of hospitality is when people leave your home they should feel better about themselves not better about you.ĭon’t let yesterday take up too much of today. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. To me, all of this is the real deal of de-cluttering, a process that's ever evolving as you move closer to the self you were meant to be.Īnd saying goodbye to too many shoes is a darn good start.Inspirational quotes like these decluttering quotes have a way of making frustrating problems seem more like manageable challenges to be solved.Īfter all, if these people (mostly famous, some not) can communicate such profound ideas in just a few words, who are we to say that our problems are too big to tackle? Relationship to nature and play-seeing these as expressions of love and opportunities to fill your life with truth and joy.Relationship to work-not only reducing the "clutter" of paperwork, inefficiency, and overcommunication, but also striving to create a balanced workload and make your work invigorating, inspiring, collaborative, and empowering to others.Relationship to emotional life-out with stagnant patterns that no longer serve you.Relationship to others-do the people in your life give you energy and encourage your personal growth, or block that growth with dysfunctional dynamics and outdated scripts? If they don't support you as a loving, open, free, and spontaneous being: Goodbye!.Relationship to self-good riddance to decisions that don't support self-care, self-value, and self-worth.In case you're looking for inspiration, here's my list: And once you get that far, you want other areas of your life decluttered as well. This principle alone eliminates a lot of clutter. Also from that issue, we decided to take Michael Pollan's advice: "Eat food. It began with a concerted effort to eat foods that give you real energy and "love you back", as featured in the January issue. (We've all seen how well my diets worked in the past.) Instead, some friends and I are doing a lifestyle cleanse. Which is what I'm trying to do this year. And you get to choose the vibration you want to resonate with and how to manifest that choice through your actions. Everything and everybody is vibrating at different frequencies. What I know for sure: Life is about an energy exchange. When you look at your relationship to things -and the energy they contain-ask yourself if they promote joy, beauty, and usefulness, or are they burdensome? We sense an invitation to begin this next decade of the millennium with more conscious attention to our lives.Īnd cleaning house-both literally and as a metaphor for life-is a great way to hit the Refresh button. There's something about 2010 that makes us hopeful. I've heard so many people say they feel this will be their best year yet. Here we are in the spring of a brand-new decade. That's true of our relationship not just to shoes but to all things. Yet I know that letting go leaves space for more to come. Although I needed to let some things go (as you can see here !), doing so causes anxiety. So it was a relief (sort of) to be able to use this month's focus on clutter to sort through my own issues with having too much stuff.Īll of our material excess is about so much more than the physical objects themselves. Plus tank tops and T-shirts and even cashmere sweaters. Of course, I also have too many jeans, and a designer bonanza of black skirts, size 8 to elastic. My excuse? I'm on television every day, with people looking at every detail of what I'm wearing. Yes I freely admit it: I have too many shoes.
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