Clutter-Clearing

If you want to put someone to sleep, start talking about your clutter. This is not a judgment, mind you. It’s just a fact. I noticed this pattern a lot in my clearing workshops and retreats [...]

Over 30,000.* That’s the number of participants who, at this writing in 2016, have signed up to join me on a yearlong clearing adventure – a 365-day online course I created for DailyOM. [...]

The video (below) by Erin Janus has been making the rounds. It’s good. It lays it on thick. Even just watching half of it gets the point across. Yes, no one would argue that the world is [...]

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”–Lily Tomlin. It took me years to break the code, to identify what could make clearing not only radically simple and sustainable, but also a [...]

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”–Lilly Tomlin As many of you know, my newest book just came out. You could say that A Year to Clear is to clearing what the slow food movement is [...]

“Whether you’ve read her book or not, you might be wondering how Marie Kondo’s methods of decluttering and organizing stack up with my own, which also come from a lifetime of [...]

Part 3 of 4* Does It Spark Joy? This is the third in a series of four articles that chronicles my experiences and impressions of Marie Kondo’s hugely popular book called The Life-Changing [...]

Part 2 of 4* Taming Paper Clutter This is the second in a series of four articles that chronicles my experiences and impressions of Marie Kondo’s hugely popular book called The [...]

In last week’s post I answered a question from a reader who was feeling overwhelmed and wanted some advice on where to start. You can read it here. I told him: “If you’re really [...]

Why is it so difficult to do what we say we’re going to do? The lizard brain. – Seth Godin, “Quieting the lizard brain.” You’ve probably heard me talk plenty about slowing [...]