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My War on Clutter: Never “organize” what you can discard |
| Published: July 2, 2007, 3:32 pm |
| Tags: productivity, home life, clutter, declutter, its all too much, organization, peter walsh |
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One of the most basic concepts Peter Walsh talks about in It's All Too Much brought a total breakthrough for me. If the stuff that you accumulate doesn’t help get you closer to the life you want to have, it’s simply not worth keeping. Period. Obviously (and unavoidably), this goes for a family room that’s turned into a junk drawer for DVDs and books, and you can clearly see it evidenced in a kitchen where no flat surface is free of junk mail, bills, and newspapers. Those you can’t miss. But, for me, the real story is about the ways you try to solve clutter problems solely by getting more space or obtaining more containers — jamming all those DVDs into cabinets and stuffing those newspapers into bigger volume baskets. The clutter doesn’t need a prettier package; it just needs to go. Now, and in very large quantities. Historically, my “housecleaning” has almost always consisted of precisely this kind of illusory shuffling [ Full article ] |
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