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Jun 29

How Clutter Keeps You Stuck; How Organizing Can Get You the Life You Want

icon1 Posted by Lisa Sarasohn in Op Ed by Lisa Sarasohn on 06 29th, 2009 | 13 Comments

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What are your greatest frustrations? Where in your life are you feeling out of order, internally or externally? How does your clutter reflect those places that you’re stuck? Barbara Hemphill, author of “Taming the Paper Tiger”, popularized the phrase: ”Clutter is postponed decisions.” Everything in your life that has been dropped, tossed, piled, shoved away into a corner/closet/drawer, represents a decision that you were unwilling to make in the moment: Keep this or eliminate it? Find a place for it to live? Put it back...
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Organizing and the Current Economy

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We’re in a mess. Large retailers are going under as fast as mom and pops. Entire malls look like ghost towns, completely vacant of tenants. Consumer spending is limping along. Our relationship to Stuff is changing, out of necessity. Our values around what we buy are shifting as we tighten our belts. And organizers everywhere are responding to the shift, helping people realign their Stuff with their changing values. When the going gets as rough as it is right now, we realize we need to get our act together. After 9/11, I expected a slowdown in business....

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