Decluttering Your Space
By Joy Abrams MA, FSII

Have you recently looked at your room and said, I must clean this up because I can t find anything anymore . If this is the case it is time for you to simply declutter your space. By doing this you will feel better as you are organizing your space and removing things that are symbolically weighing you down.

Here are some simple tips to help you in the process of ridding your space of clutter:

Clean out your drawers and closets. Use three bags: one marked save, one marked share, and one marked send. Put into your save bag anything that you must keep such as special clothes and important records ect. Put into your share bag anything that you have not worn for two years. Share things that others might want and that you will not use. In your send bag send to the trash items like dried up pens and old calendars.
Sort the things in your saved bags into piles. Put files into boxes and group your clothes by type. Sort your files in general categories such as: health, financial, personal and professional.
Finish one corner of your room at a time. Don t try to do this all in one day. It may take weeks for you to do this.
Try using a timer and set the timer for one half hour. After that time just stop cleaning your clutter and resume the next day for a half hour. In this way you won t get frustrated of letting go of clutter and organizing your space.
As you sort through all of your stuff you will find that you feel personally transformed in the process. Internal clutter slowly evaporates as you organize your place. As you create new space by removing clutter you are symbolically creating new areas for good things to come into your life. It also makes you feel lighter.

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