First off, sorry to be so MIA. My son caught a nine day illness, which he then nicely gave to me (early holiday gift?) only my version has morphed into some major flu. I’m feeling a little better now, so hopefully we’ll be back on track here with organizing and decluttering the holiday season.
Since I’ve been sick, and somewhat stressed over it, I figured, why not start there.

Here are five ways to lower your stress levels over the holidays – why? A decluttered mind is more able to deal with all of life – we all know that.
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This month I posted on mental clutter a bit, but wanted to go into it a little more. So far you can read:

Get Rid of Mental Clutter
Start Moving Out Mental & Physical Clutter

If you’re blocked by mental clutter, if it’s a reason why your day to day life and spaces feel cramped and messy, then start moving the clutter out of your head. Yeah, if you’re dwelling hardcore, then seek some professional help, but often some simple moves are enough to clear out basic mental clutter and allow you to focus on what’s important in life; including the physical clutter.
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We’ve been looking at mental and physical clutter – and the connections between them. Because it’s often hard to tell which comes first, the mental or physical clutter, you can give your decluttering a little kick start by getting rid of a little of both.
First name five mentally cluttering issues you’ve got going on. Some ideas might be:

When your ex nags you, it really gets to you.
You hate sending birthday cards, but do it anyhow.
You hate your job – it just stresses you out (this is a biggie obviously).
That mistake you made five years ago.
Doubts you have about your abilities.

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Like stuff crowding your house, stuff crowding your mind is no good either. In fact, the more cluttered your mind, the harder it is to actually keep your living spaces clutter free. You can’t concentrate, you’re tired, maybe sort of down, and organizing sounds like no fun at all, not when your brain is cluttering up your thinking process.
That said, it’s due time we took a good hard look at mental clutter. Not that your’s truly is a therapist or anything, but I do know this much; mind clutter is lame and there’s few reasons to keep it around.

 
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