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1538: Decluttering: No One Lets Go in a Vacuum AND Spring Clean Your To-Do List by Julie Morgenstern on Simple Living

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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2 posts from Julie Morgenstern on decluttering and spring cleaning your to-do list. Episode 1538: Decluttering: No One Lets Go in a Vacuum AND Spring Clean Your To-Do List by Julie Morgenstern on Simple Living Julie Morgenstern is an organizing & productivity consultant, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker. For over 30 years, Julie has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique contribution to the world - by helping them design their own systems for managing time and space that feel natural and are easy to maintain. This Inside Out approach to organizing everything gives readers, listeners, and clients the energy and knowledge they need to get (and stay) organized. The original posts are located here: https://www.juliemorgenstern.com/tips-tools-blog/2019/1/15/gbxbm4b2ugiwpsn4wtacaifoddkxvc & https://www.juliemorgenstern.com/tips-tools-blog/2019/3/22/4-ways-to-conquer-procrastination Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1538, decluttering.

0:04.0

No one lets go in a vacuum.

0:06.2

And, spring cleaner to-do list, both by Julie Morganstone of Julie Morganstone.com,

0:11.8

and I'm just a mallegger personal narrator reading to you every day, including holidays.

0:16.4

I'll keep this intro nice and short for today, so let's get right to it, as we optimize your life.

0:20.6

Decluttering. No one lets go in a vacuum by Julie Morganstone of Julie Morganstone.com.

0:30.8

New years is a classic time for a fresh start.

0:34.8

And the act of decluttering your space and schedule can help you make room for change.

0:39.2

It clears space to think, energy to explore, and inside as to where to go from here.

0:44.8

Yet we all know how hard it is to get rid of things.

0:48.1

In my 30 years as a professional organizer, I've discovered that the biggest mistake people make

0:52.5

when decluttering is focusing just on the throwing out part. The secret to successfully getting rid

0:58.0

of the clutter lies in focusing more on what you do before and after you actually toss the junk.

1:04.2

My book, Shed Your Stuff, Change Your Life, will help you declutter anything in your life that is

1:08.4

weighing you down, space, schedule, or habits. The four steps of Shed separate the treasures,

1:14.2

keep the rest, embrace your identity from within, and drive yourself forward,

1:19.1

make it easier to let the obsolete go. It's a nurturing process that allows each pocket of clutter,

1:24.3

what I call a point of entry, to teach you something about yourself that helps you grow and gain

1:29.2

strength. Your eight key concepts of the Shed Process. Number one, recognize that no one

1:35.6

lets go into a vacuum. No one lets go of anything without reaching for something else.

1:41.2

Come up with a one or two word theme for what you are making room for. It could be anything from

1:45.8

deeper connections and financial security, to self-acceptance, creativity, and freedom.

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