Still, it’s easy to accumulate stuff, and sometimes I find it difficult deciding when to keep that perfectly good (fill in the blank) and when to give it a send off. I’ll give your method a try! Thanks for the great article.

Michael

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I try to make this easier by either storing old things in my villa, or by selling or donating what I will never use again.

The trick here is to ask yourself the question: Do I really need that?

The trick with visual clutter is even easier. Just ask the question: How often do I use that? If you use it quite often, it should be visible. If not, put it in a drawer.

Thanks for the great post, Eric!

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“I’ll let you know when the day comes that I actually wish I had kept something ”

Well, said. Eric

Great minds think alike eh? On lots of clutter, I’ve also started giving away/clearing out many items in my life. I’ll let you know when the day comes that I actually wish I had kept something

For example, if a friend comes over and sees something that they are more passionate about than I am, then I will give it to them. To me this is the natural order of things. It may not fit in your life, but if it’s still in your life; there is a reason. Perhaps it’s meant for someone else who needs it.

When I first started blogging, I would delete many articles after writing them because I couldn’t see who they fit in with what I was trying to accomplish. Those articles had a feeling of not turning out right. However, a day, or week, or month goes by and I see exactly why I wrote that article. Now it’s too late though and as a writer you know you can try to reproduce it, but it will never have the same structure, voice, and heartfelt words to it.

Therefor, I keep everything but I organize it so there is not clutter.

I appreciate this article very much and I see that it has the potential to help many people (it has its place), I am by no means refuting this because I know that every creation (every article) has it’s place and you are doing a perfect job by listening to your experience. The universe can not operate in any other way.

I agree that we always attach ourselves to things that are not important and that is why we are always reluctant to throw things away. Whenever I am faced with a dilemma whether to throw the object away, I will use a benchmark of a year. If in this year, I will not use the object, I will just gladly throw it away.

Cheers
Vincent
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