May 28 2008
Clutter Hot Spots
Do you have clutter hot spots in your house? Me, I am looking at my linen cupboard in dismay. The first problem is I simply have too much of everything because as new items come in, I am not doing anything about the older ones. Some of these dish towels are so old the pattern has faded right off! Others are stained and frankly unattractive.
So the question is, why do I hang on to old dish cloths and towels that I’d be embassed to use if I had people over for dinner? I know many of us have the same challenges when it comes to what we are ‘allowed’. As I looked at the lovely new dish towels I was given during Christmas, I felt they were too good to use. Compared to what I used everyday, they were! But, (my scarcity-thinking brain said) if I use the new ones, they’ll get stained and old and I won’t have nice dish towels if I have visitors.
As I began to pull everything off the shelves and sort, I promised myself the next time I have house guests, I will buy brand new dish towel in honour of the occasion. Second, if I decide I am worth “the good stuff” every day, I need never worry about not having something decent to give a guest to help dry the dinner dishes, because it will all be good stuff. After sorting and putting everything that was staying back on the shelves, I had about a weeks’ worth of decent dish towels left. As I looked at the neat shelves some words that come to mind:
- organized feels good
- it is prosperity thinking
- it is quality over quantity
- it is living for today
- I am pleasing myself instead of keeping the best for ‘others’.</li>
This is one of the reasons why clearing clutter is so powerful. It is an opportunity to change your internal script each time you examine what you are keeping and why. It changes your energy template and your idea of who you are. In no small way, clearing clutter energizes and heals your life.
(c) Deborah Redfern, 2008. All rights reserved.
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