subject: Clear Your Clutter - Eliminate Fear [print this page] One of the main reasons why your house is cluttered, your life is cluttered, you're world is cluttered; one of the main drivers of that clutter, and the foundation of it for many people is fear.
Fear that by throwing something away you are going to be making a mistake. That you will need it at some point in the future. That it's worth something and you don't want to throw something of value away.
Fear.
In order for you to escape from the chains of clutter, you are going to have to get over that fear.
Hopefully you're in enough pain right now, which is why you've been searching for reasons and methods of how to get out of clutter, and that brought you to this article.
Hopefully you're in enough pain right now to overcome the fear.
Because that's exactly what it's going to take...courage.
So here's what you're going to do from now on. You're just going to have this piece of technology, as Tony Robbins would call it. It's a tool, a device you're going to use whenever you're afraid to throw something away and you're just going to say to yourself, if I'm afraid aI must.
It's just that simple.
If you're afraid to do it, then do it.
Just live a year like that.
Just live a day like that and see if you survive.
I promise you, you will survive.
Then once you lived one day like that, live another like that.
Take it day by day.
Then you've lived a week like that. Once you've lived a week like that, throwing things away, not dying, not having the world crash down on you or fall apart, once you've lived a week like that, throwing things away and surviving, you take it from there.
One week turns to 2, 2 weeks to a months. What a huge breakthrough in your clutter you're going to make in one months time. Imagine if you could throw things away for a solid month what the impact would be on your clutter.
Do you think you could possibly unclutter 1 room of your house in a months time?
Just pick a small room, and focus on it, and for 1 month just keep going into that room and throwing things away that you haven't touched in a years time. If you haven't touched something in a years time you're probably never going to touch it, or to need it, or use it. Just throw it away.
And if you feel fear about throwing it away, then just say "if I'm afraid, then I must", then throw it away. That's what I want you to do.
