I vaguely remember signing the permission slip—a paper and pen shoved into my hands amid the morning hustle. A couple of weeks later, my son woke up at 7am, just like my kids do every weekday, and told me with a smile in his eyes that he was staying home—he was job shadowing …
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Tracy is the founder and CEO of dClutterfly—an organization and decluttering company in Los Angeles, California. Which means—she has been inside of hundreds of homes and helped thousands of people with their clutter. She’s also the author of two beautiful books: My personal …
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Recently, a client of mine started talking about her den, saying it was her dumping ground and always the last place in the house to get any attention. Clearing it out had been her new year’s resolution but, a month into the new year, she’d barely touched it. She went on to …
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I have a question for you. Which gets more air time in your head—your perceived weaknesses as an introvert... or your strengths? When I'm not on top of it, weakness easily wins out. It’s far too easy to feel like I’m falling short, to worry that my kids will remember a mom who was always …
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I used to feel helpless. Not all of the time. But a lot more often than I do now. Sometimes in my mind, I pictured myself as a caged little bird. Sure, I lived in a lovely cage, with a lovely little bird family inside of it with me. But my life still felt a bit like a cage. I could …
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Every now and then, when someone hears that I wrote a book on minimalism, they’ll say, “Ugh, I want to declutter, but it’s so exhausting! I usually give up before I get very far.” I get that. Decluttering means making a thousand tiny decisions, taking a thousand steps around your house, and …
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