This is Pioneering Today with Uppercadget's own Melissa K. Norris, inspiring your faith and your

pioneer route here in the beautiful North Cascade Mountains on KSvU 90.1 Community Radio.

Good morning and welcome to Melissa K. Norris with Pioneering Today. On today's episode, we're going to be talking about

clearing out the clutter and getting organized. It's a new year. We're in January. And a lot of

times, you know, January and New Year comes, everybody wants to get organized. We want to get

things set in order to start the new year outright. Resolutions

happen and fail a lot of the time. I don't know very many people who keep their resolutions

all year long. A few times, I actually don't even make New Year's resolutions. You know,

I feel in life that I need to change things all year long,

and so I try to change them as they come up instead of waiting, you know, until one time at the

New Year to make a whole bunch resolutions. And I've also noticed with change that when we try

to change too much all at once, it becomes

overwhelming and we just kind of set ourselves up for failure. And I think that's one of the

major reasons that New Year's resolutions usually don't make it much past the new year is because

we want to change every single thing we don't like about ourselves or our life, you know,

lifestyle or whatever.

And we want to make all these brand new starts, which is great. I think we should always

try to change what, you know, we're not happy about and what's not working in our life.

But when we try to do it all at once, it generally doesn't tend to work. So I just tend to try to do

make the changes as they come up throughout the year. But one thing that I do

do, and I kind of remember where I saw this, it was a couple years ago, and I saw it, you know,

in a magazine article somewhere online on a website, but it was instead of making a New Year's

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