Have you ever looked at your living room and wished it looked more like it popped out of a design magazine? Reality hits though and there are children’s toys all over the place — under the coffee table, hanging from a lamp. There are stickers stuck to the front door and crayon marks on the floor when your son wanted to create a floor mural. There are days when you just want to dump everything into a box and ship them off to the other side of the world. And then there are days when you are seated in the …read more

I’d been looking forward to this past weekend for quite a while because it was the time I had set aside to declutter my entire house. And guess what? That goal was completely unreasonable and I didn’t quite make it, however.

In my failure to accomplish the big task, however, I learned something. When it comes to clutter, small steps are equally as effective. For example, while I didn’t organize the entire house, I did organize my bedroom. I got rid of clothes I didn’t wear, and organized drawers so now everything fits very nicely …read more

I’m someone that can’t think when my house is filled with clutter. Right now, for example, I haven’t done my spring cleaning yet, and I have piles of clothes and books and files that I have every intention of going through. The trouble is, I haven’t had time yet, and every time I walk past these piles of “stuff,” my mind ends up feeling bogged down and I end up feeling very stressed out.

Check out this quote: “Everything in life is imbued with energy. Our clutter is no exception. Clutter blocks the flow of positive energy into …read more

Are you an e-mail chatter box? Do you keep your inbox full rather than empty? Do you suffer from e-mail addiction? Do you know how to give the “e-mail brush-off”?
Did you know that how you manage your inbox says a lot about you? For example, “…if you keep your inbox full rather than empty, it may mean you keep your life cluttered in other ways,” says psychologist Dave Greenfield, who founded the Center for Internet Behavior in West Hartford, Conn.
Often, I would walk by someone’s desk and notice that he or she seemed to have thousands of unanswered e-mails. I …read more