Thank you for joining us for episode 387 of Live Happy Now.

If you're like most people, you probably have a little bit of extra stuff laying around the house.

But by the time you finish listening to this episode, you just might be ready to let it go.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I am joined by

decluttering expert Tracy McCubbin, author of Make Space for Happiness, How to Stop Attracting

Clutter and Start Magnitizing the Life You Want. Tracy has some surprising things to say about the

relationship between clutter and happiness and what straightening up the

space in your house can do for the space in your head. Check it out. Tracy, welcome to live happy now.

Paula, thank you for having me. I love the title of your show. I love it. Thank you so much. Yeah,

it pretty much tells what we're about. You know, I think there's this, I see it, I'm a

professional declutterer. I own a decluttering company. And I see with so many of my clients that they are waiting for

something to happen to get happy. You know, oh, if I get that bigger house, then I can start being happy. Or, oh, if I just

get my kids, you know, out of middle school, then I can be happy. And my feeling for my own life is that

there's no waiting. It starts now. Like, you're not guaranteed tomorrow. You're not so much can happen.

And so sort of putting off finding the happiness,

I think we waste a lot of time. We do. And so that's why we're here. We're here to give like

the little shortcut. I love it. Happiness hacks. That's right. That's right. Well, and you have

several. I've got to say, I spent time with your book over the weekend and I just,

I love everything about it because you connect decluttering and happiness in a way that I just

have not seen done. And it's so concise and you simplify it. And I guess before we really dive in,

can you tell me how you discovered that connection

between clutter and mental health? Well, I kind of came to being a professional declutter.

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