Today we're going to do a little sneak peek of inside my new book The Declutter Challenge which is a

guided journal we're actually going to work through some of the exercises in

this book together right now. So hey guys, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today we're talking about some mental exercises that you can do that are going to help you when

you're decluttering your home because here's the honest truth it's never about your

stuff the reason you're struggling with clutter or mess or it's

really hard to get rid of things whether it's your grandmother's China or it's your

kids artwork or whatever it is it's not actually about the stuff at all. It's all in your head. It's all the things

that you're struggling with that you don't even realize that you're struggling with

internally. So we're going to use

some of the exercises in my new book The Decluttering Challenge, which is a

guided journal. This isn't a plug, I'm not trying to convince you to buy it, I'm just going to use some of the exercises in that book.

I'm going to go through them with you now in the hopes that they can help you overcome

some of the obstacles that are in the way that are really blocking you

from having the home of your dreams.

So the first thing we're going to talk about today is self-awareness because so often we have a perception about ourselves. We have this belief about ourselves, whether that we're lazy or that we're not good at stuff, we're a bad mother,

we're bad at housework, this core belief that we have that sort of underlying, we don't even realize that

we're having it it but it's shaping

our lives and it definitely is shaping the way that our house looks and so let's

talk about how we can dig it out, how we can discover that core negative belief that we might have about ourselves

when it's hidden under deep layers of other stuff we don't even know it's there.

And so one thing that we can do to dig that out

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