Ahhh, procrastination how that can clutter up your mind and paralyze you into ineffectiveness. I can spend days on procrastinating about something that will probably physically only take ten minutes to deal with. How crazy is that. At this moment there are four little white dishes on my craft table with unfinished projects, repair jobs and samples that await my attention or for the artistic inspiration to create something with. I look at them quite regularly and they annoy me no end yet I leave them sitting there taunting me day in day out while I find "better" things to do with my … [Read more...]
Day 92 Clutter – Physical or Psychological
Forgive me for being a little deep and meaningful with today's topic but there is plenty of truth in the message I am trying to convey. Clutter is often the physical manifestation of something Psychological. Three examples of the psychological motivation behind accumulating stuff Vanity : "Showing off" stuff because you think it makes you look somehow better to others. Insecurity : "Keeping" stuff to make you feel like you are prepared for any situation that may arise. Unhappiness : "Substituting" stuff, to make up for, something else missing in your life. I am sure we have all … [Read more...]
Day 87 Replace old habits
I heard somewhere recently that it only take two weeks to start breaking out of old habits. The idea being, if you can persevere and ignore the cravings to continue in your old habit for two weeks, you will start to notice physically and mentally the change in your behaviour at this point and start to realise you can cope with the changes. Hoarding is a bad habit that most of us have an addiction to to some degree. A bad habit that for the sake of a neat and clutter free environment we need to break. According to the two week rule mentioned above once we set our mind to de-cluttering instead … [Read more...]