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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strong pull of what you really love.” – Rumi One of my biggest ah-has in the clearing journey has been this one: It’s all well and good to [...]

Here’s something I don’t understand: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer of wet ones because nobody bothers to put away the original set. Am I the only [...]

It seems that many good books these days are made into a movie. At four minutes long maybe my movie isn’t Hollywood or Sundance material, but it does have a soundtrack and it is designed to [...]

Part 5 of 5 Why is it that whenever someone catches us doing nothing, we immediately jump to our feet so that we’re not perceived as total time-wasting deadbeats? If that is something you [...]

Part 2 of 5 “Go slow to go fast.” Slowing it down is the second way to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter.* Anytime a task becomes too overwhelming and threatens to stall your [...]

“Pain happens, suffering is optional.” –Alberto Villoldo It took me years to discover that every time I cleared a drawer or a closet I would come away feeling more congested and [...]

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein, The Three Rules of Work Imagine this: One object [...]

“Support Equals Release.” –Svaroopa Yoga With over fifteen years of experience with many different styles of yoga, I have to say that the most profound poses for me are the simplest. [...]

“What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.” –Buddha “If I had to summarize in three words the essence of the clearing path as I’ve experienced it…it would be [...]

“Life by the inch is a cinch. Life by the yard is hard.”–Unknown In my book Your Spacious Self I offer a series of phrases that are designed to relieve and release the build-up of [...]