Consider drawing a comparison between the act of de-cluttering and washing dishes.  Here’s what Geneen Roth wrote about washing dishes in her book Women Food and God:

“…If you focus on getting the dishes done so that your kitchen will be clean, you miss everything that...

Clutter--Let me free associate for a moment:

• Stuff not being used, but someday I’ll need it;

• Things once considered valuable because my parents treasured them;

• Something someone could use, but since I don’t know who, I’ll postpone doing anything about it...

All I could see was red. That’s what happened when my freshman college English professor Mrs. Nesselhof handed back an essay I and my classmates had been assigned to write. In that instant, when I saw all those red marks, I felt a “Scarlet I” had been imprinted on my c...

“You picked HIM!”  That’s what a therapist said to me as I was licking my wounds from a failed relationship when I was in my twenties.  My reply, “No, I didn’t!”  Then I went on to explain that HE approached me and that some kind of chemistry enveloped me.  I couldn’t...

Helen Williams © 2017

Sometimes when I hear the word, “clutter,” I picture a little old lady, puttering around a tiny cottage filled with various collections and memorabilia – tiny spoons from every state, egg cups shaped like chickens, wicker bagfuls of yarn and knitti...

You are going to laugh. I haven’t had a boyfriend for years and don’t have one now. On a few occasions I’ve tried to find him, but no one made my heart sing. And the effort it takes to find THE ONE didn’t seem worth it. I was too committed to building my business ALIGN...