The Clutter Fairy Weekly #62

All Tied Up in Knots: Creative Clutter
Problem-Solving

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Sometimes we make our lives harder by tying ourselves up in knots—confusing the problems we need to solve with our emotional responses to them. In episode #62 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for cutting through our emotional tangles to arrive at creative, practical solutions to clutter problems.

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Weekly Tittle

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Slice Through the Knot!

What project or task is the Gordian Knot in your legendary decluttering life? This week we’d like you to take a bold stroke at finding a new and creative solution to your hardest puzzle.

  • First, identify a decluttering item on your to-do list that you find challenging in its size, scope, or complexity.
  • Try to see the project from a new perspective. For example, how would you handle this project if money were no object, or if you absolutely had to finish it today?
  • What would you tell a friend to do in this situation?
  • Try a solution—any solution—and see if it works? What have you got to lose?
  • Sit down with paper and pencil and write down the problem you’re trying to solve. Then write down the emotions that you’re feeling about the problem. See if isolating those from one another makes the problem—and a solution—a little clearer.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.

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