Hey clutter bugs, today we're talking about fear and how the fear of failure can really cause anxiety which can lead to a messy home. So thanks so much for joining me. I'm Cass from Clutterbug and today we're talking

about fear and really we're talking about anxiety but anxiety is caused by fear

so we're talking about fear and

specifically how the fear of failure stops us from doing things and

accomplishing the things we really want to accomplish.

They sort of make everything bigger, anxiety and fear as a team,

make things bigger, over complicate things,

and stop us from achieving what we really want in our lives.

And of course, because this is a clutterbug podcast, we're going to be specifically talking

about fear and anxiety when it comes to our home.

So a lot of people struggle with clutter,

and they struggle with a messy home.

There's definitely different degrees of this,

especially depending on your clutter bug style, but the reason

when you really can break it down, it almost always comes down to fear. Fear of making a mistake, fear of doing it wrong, fear of

wasting money, fear of wasting time, fear of failure like it's just going to get

messy again and then you're going to feel bad about yourself.

All of these reasons that we justify in our head of why we're not doing things or we can't do things or we shouldn't

do things basically always come down to fear.

And I have had many, many clients in my lives

who want, they say that they want, to break free of the cycle of clutter, constantly

tidying and then sort of letting it go for a while and it becomes a giant mess and then having

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