Hey clutterbucks, welcome back. I thought we'd do something a little different here with

this podcast. I'm also going to put this in the course. I thought it would be really

fun to go through the declutter challenge in an audio style with you. So the declutter

challenge is a book I wrote a few years ago. It's actually a guided journal that helps

with the mindfulness part of decluttering. So it's going to help you overcome the mental

challenges that come with letting go of your things and getting organized and cleaning

because here's the honest truth. The roadblock in your way is 90% in your head. Yes, it's

hard work decluttering and it might be that you don't have the time or the space or the money

or the physical ability. But I'm going to tell you the honest truth. 90% of what's stopping you

is yourself in your mind. And that's what this declutter challenge is all about. And I'm going

to walk you through it and read this book to you and do the challenges with you step by step.

We're only going to go maybe a chapter or two at a time. Grab a notebook, grab a piece of paper,

pause this right now, grab something to write with, grab a pen, and let's start doing these

exercises right now. So the first step is mindfulness. Listen, I'd say here zen level baby Yoda.

I don't know if you watch the Mandalorian, but baby Yoda is super zen and we want to get zen too.

And when I think of mindfulness and I think of meditation all of that, I don't know if it

always just been sort of turned off by the idea. I'm like, oh, that's for hippies or whatever,

you know what I mean? That certainly isn't me. But the truth is being mindful just means being

aware of our thoughts. That's all it is. It's being aware of our thoughts and we don't have to even

meditate to be aware of our thoughts. We just have to get to a place where we're asking ourselves,

what am I feeling right now? What am I thinking right now? When we're in a situation that's

causing us happiness or anxiety or sadness or anger, we really ask ourselves why we're feeling

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