A great article on making the 'declutter' task easier - I'm determined to add a good measure of fun into it as well!Here’s where I get a bit Law Of Attraction oriented on you. I started my project with the aim of decluttering my house. For the first two weeks I went like gangbusters. But the more I worked, the more I found to declutter! It was strange. When I got to the point where you could really see that I’d made an incredible amount of progress, I suddenly got the urge to pull out all of the stuff we’d been storing and go through it, even though the house was nowhere near being finished! BAM – my house was a total wreck again. Boxes everywhere, hard to find a place to sit, and a visually insurmountable, overwhelming task facing me every time I woke up. I started to slide back into my “it’s all too much, why am I even bothering” mode; and that’s when it hit me: I was sliding back into my comfort zone and had attracted more stuff to declutter to myself to get there.
Because I was focusing on decluttering, rather than creating space, I naturally and unconciously found more things to declutter. Folks who’ve watched The Secret will know what I mean when I say that the Universe found a way to put more clutter into my path – because that’s what I was focusing on and that’s what I wanted to do – declutter! It was also more comfortable for me to stay in my misery, surrounded by my stuff (and it’s not about your stuff, your “stuff” is actually a visual representation of deeper issues), than it was to step into a different world where I was in control, rather than my stuff being in control of me.
Once I realized that (and it took about two weeks of having all of this extra stuff piled around for me to have this realization), I was able to face those extra piles with determination and change my focus to CREATING SPACE. The extra boxes from storage still aren’t completely done, but they’re getting there.
Also, once you change your focus to “creating space”, you’ll start to recognize and appreciate more the space you’ve already made. It won’t be “god, I’ve still got SO much to do,” but instead will be “man, look at how far I’ve come!”
So be careful about what you focus on – trust me, you don’t want more clutter coming your way! (If you get a sudden urge to bring everything down from the attic, up from the basement, in from the shed, or bring home all the stuff from the storage unit to go through….and it’s a true, overwhelming URGE to do it NOW, rather than waiting for the time you planned to tackle that part of the project,,,,then ask yourself if you’re really focusing on clutter or space. My bet is, you’re focusing on clutter and finding a way to re-clutter the space you’ve already cleaned out so that you can get back into your own comfort zone.
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