Your physical surroundings impact you in ways you might not even realize.

And it did for me because my clutter, my closet, all of that stuff was just this constant reminder of my debt and

discontent. And when it was gone, the guilt went with it, the

frustration or the sadness or whatever it was, you know, all the emotion that I had wrapped up in my stuff

that went out the door with the stuff. It just felt like an almost immediate solution.

And then we were just crazy about it and decluttering to the point where we had empty rooms in our house. And finally, we had too much house and sold the house and downsized into an apartment less than half the size of our house.

And now we're just vigilant about the stuff that we bring in because we know how destructive it can be even though it seems pretty

innocuous just kind of hanging out but it really is

destructive to your thought process.

I think even how you treat each other,

you know, if you walk in the house after a long day

and you're tired and there's crap all over the kitchen counter and a pile of laundry and whatever

else there is it gets to you but if you come home after that same day and there is space and some

clear countertops and the things that you really enjoy surrounding you I think that just

adds the slayer of calm to what may have been chaos. I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative

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