412: The Messy Middle is Real, but it Doesn't Actually Have to be Messy

A Slob Comes Clean

Dana K White

Declutter, To, Home, Messy, Routines, Housekeeping, Clean, Cleaning, How, Organizing, Kids & Family, Decluttering, A, House

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Decluttering can be daunting, and if you find yourself stuck in "the Messy Middle," you might feel discouraged. Of course, with the No Mess Decluttering Process, there's no physical mess. But I'm sharing ways to get through the feelings of frustration you might experience in the middle of a decluttering project.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Slob Comes Clean, the podcast.
0:02.2	I am Danny Kay White.
0:03.7	I share my personal deslobification process.
0:06.7	As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control,
0:09.6	I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people.
0:15.7	People who don't love cleaning and organizing.
0:19.0	Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 412 and I'm calling it the messy middle is real but
0:26.4	doesn't actually have to be messy. So the messy middle is one of those terms
0:31.6	that you hear you know thrown. I'm sure it was coined or
0:36.0	used by a lot of different people. I did look it up and a guy named Scott Belsky wrote a book
0:42.0	called The Messy Middle. I believe from reading the
0:45.3	description of it that it is more about you know just the messiness along the way
0:50.9	of getting from point A to point B of just different things in life,
0:54.5	success, whatever. So just to be clear, I preach and teach against the messy
1:01.4	middle, right? My claim to fame, which isn't real fame, but you know what I mean?
1:05.7	Is that I created the no mess decluttering process.
1:10.8	Long before I ever called it, the No Mess decluttering process.
1:14.0	I came up with a way to make progress and only progress as I declutter.
1:22.0	To never get myself in a situation where I'm worse off than I was
1:28.0	before I got started decluttering and it was because I had the issue of every time I tried to declutter I ended up making a bigger mess and that's a lot of people's issues.
1:36.2	Well how I solved it for myself turns out it works for a lot of other people too.
1:39.2	So that's my five-step process that helps me make progress and only progress. I don't pull everything out. I don't make
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