"Clear Your Clutter" Cliche - by: Jane Kifer

I'm the queen of clutter, no sooner do ten bags of stuff leave that 5 more come in! Papers all over my desk. It is unrealistic of me to think I can have a super clean desk. I am productive with everything out. Screeching halt, STOP. Ok ok , yes that's fine, BUT go through the "stuff" on your desk weekly, or ever. It can be cluttered but fresh clutter. Current clutter. The parts I want to talk about are the 5 bags of stuff you are planning to give away but sit in your relationship corner, the back right corner from your front door. Or your abundance corner, the back left from the front door. That stuff builds, and gets stuck. For years I have gathered bags and bags of stuff to get rid of behind my dryer, perfectly organized and contained- out of the way and on its way out. Except it sat there for 6 months- for years. But I told myself I was letting stuff go. You know what? my boyfriend and I spent most of our first 2 years of our relationship clearing junk out of our emotional lives. We were constantly cleaning house with our emotional stuff. It was exhausting. I didn't realize it until I started studying Feng Shui, that I needed to move that stuff. I then had the epiphany of the metaphor I had created in my things. I was really good at gathering what to give away but getting it out the door was a whole other looming job! I asked my babysitter if I could pay her an extra hour and she would load all the bags in her car and drive to the community center 3 blocks away where I donate things and drop it off. It took her 15 minutes and she was happy for the extra hours worth of pay and I was relieved and free. And I had help! Go figure! Once you deal with the stuff and see how free it feels, you can't not deal with it after that. The stagnation disappears in all levels of your life.