Decluttering is not easy at the best of times. If you’ve been wrestling with it during the holidays, good on you!
If you haven’t had the heart, the energy or the motivation and haven’t decluttered a thing… Good on you!
Take my word for it, you want to be using all your brain cells when you’re decluttering. After all, you’re decluttering for a reason. It’s usually a very important reason – your happiness and well-being.
You could be planning on moving soon, thinking of reducing all that packing – of stuff you might not even want to unpack! Or maybe you’re trying to make your life easier in your home: easier to clean, easier to find things. You could be doing it to find your calm or refresh your whole house.
Every reason for decluttering is an important one. (I’m not just saying that because I’m a bit of a fan.) Your decisions and needs and wants are important.
So if you’re just not feeling up to it, or have done way less than you planned at the start, take it easy on yourself. Resist making your most Diabolical Decluttering Decisions.
Your brain might have been occupied dealing with all the things that come with life. You could have been feeling loneliness and stress and worry, anxiety or just-barely-coping with busy family chaos.
Soon enough you’ll feel that motivation, or maybe it’ll take a wee while. Maybe you’ll do it in little chunks, as you can, or one big binge, when you feel the time is right. Until then do what you can or stick to decluttering the easy stuff and be satisfied with that for now.
Be kind to yourself.
All Things Decluttering & Organising: some of my blogs – here are the links:
This Decluttering Secret Is Not So Secret, But Do YOU Know It?
If you can’t bring yourself to even start decluttering, you might not be ready to move past an old phase of your life that you’re stuck in. Here’s how.
This Smart Thing Is Awesome But Only If You Actually Use It!
Home Organising – Smart Places? No, it’s not talking toasters, chatty fridges or washing machines that play Beethoven. It’s unhackable and a family sanity-saver!
The Secret That Will Change Your Mind About Decluttering.
Who are you really? Like right now? Not the old you, not last year’s you, the now you. And does your life and your home reflect that new you?
