I got a TV this week. I haven’t had one for a long while. I watch movies on my computer, or from a projector on a pull down screen. But I thought to get a TV again. Mostly I wanted to stream movies from a service called The Criterion Channel on a screen bigger than […]
We’re not our stuff
My client was going through piles of things she’d put in containers years ago. She was puzzled why she hung on to them for so long. I said it’s common that we identify with the things in our lives. On some level we feel they are part of us. We don’t question their existence. So […]
It doesn’t matter how small an item is, if it’s in the way of your life, it’s big.
Over the weekend I worked with a client who had a big storage container of many little items. As we went through the things, he said they seemed insignificant to him, and wondered if it was worth his time to go through them. I said, “It doesn’t matter how small an item is, if it’s […]
Removing the inertia
I recently worked with a client who felt trapped in sluggishness. It was from the presence of the clutter. That’s what clutter does. It drugs us and takes away the vitality we need to declutter. I said it wasn’t her fault she felt stuck. It happens to all of us. Things turn to clutter over […]