I have been going through all my house, room by room, closet by closet, drawer by drawer. You know what...I have alot of stuff! How did I collect all this stuff? I didn't mean to collect it. I didn't mean to fill my drawers and closets up to the max. I slowly accumulated this stuff til it filled up my space.
Do you know what I figured out? That moving is a great motivation to get rid of stuff. I am looking at it all and saying, "I don't want to put that into a box and move it. Donate it!" and some stuff I look at and say, "I don't think anyone else will want this, so trash it." Slowly, I am gaining a bigger donation pile and a full trashcan. I still have lots of boxes all around me.
Of course, I am a life coach and I found an analogy in this experience of decluttering, how often to do I just think the same thoughts and never question them? Sometimes they are helpful and I want to pack them and take with me, like "I can run 3 miles today." Since I have done it in the past, my brain and my legs believe me and I take off. But sometimes my thoughts are like, "I don't know how." or "I don't want to." or "She doesn't like me." My brain believes it, but I don't want to take the time to pack it and take it with me, so I trash it. Sometimes I donate thoughts to others like, "I don't know how, but I will figure it out."
See if you can identify a pack, donate or trash thought in your brain and take action to do something with it.
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