At the January 2015 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll discuss how to apply a step-by-step strategy of short-term goals to make huge, long-term progress.
The end of the year is a fitting time to reflect on who you are and who you want to be. An important part of your year-end review is making sure your surroundings support the life you want to live. At our December meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about clearing out the stuff that no longer serves you to make room for new possibilities in the new year.
Halloween is right around the corner, and before you can say “Boo!,” it’ll be time for the annual sprint from Thanksgiving to New Year. The October 2014 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group will focus on streamlining the holiday season for you and your loved ones. We’ll offer tips for simpler, less stressful, less cluttered solutions to holiday decorating, entertaining, and gift-giving.
At the September meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll turn our attention to practical techniques for reducing clutter. We’ll offer a dozen easy, five-minute tricks to move you toward a clutter-free life. Try all 12 as a one-hour-a-week clutter-prevention plan, or pick the ones that will make the biggest difference for you!
Most of us have a place that becomes our last refuge for clutter. You know the space we’re talking about—the closet where things go in but never come out, the unusable spare room, the junk drawer you can’t close (or dare not open), the impenetrable garage. At our August meetup, we’ll discuss these trouble spots and offer tips for reclaiming your “personal space of shame” as a usable part of your home.
Whether you’re confronting a long-term clutter problem or starting anew in a pristine space, a critical part of creating an organized life is maintenance. Well-designed maintenance routines can stop a bad situation from getting worse and can keep an organized space functioning smoothly. And you might find that establishing good maintenance habits gives you a fresh outlook on your old clutter.
As we age, many of us find our clutter problems becoming more complicated by the urgent needs of elderly parents or loved ones, our desire to share mementos and family history with the next generations, our own physical limitations, and many other factors.
For the June meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll explore clutter-related issues that arise with aging. We’ll suggest strategies that you and your family can adopt to ease the burden of future clutter.
Whenever The Clutter Fairy speaks to a group, she answers anxious questions about managing paper. Paper clutter is a universal First World problem—we all accumulate too much of it and face the challenge of figuring out what we really need to keep.
There’s nothing like the pressure of moving to help you throw away things you don’t need! Whether you purge by choice or because you’re too exhausted to keep packing, the demands of a move are guaranteed to reduce your pile of possessions. But even if you won’t be moving any time soon, you can still use moving strategies to help you let go of excess in your life.
People with clutter issues often report feeling overwhelmed—they know where they’d like to end up, but they can’t see a way to get there. The March 2014 meeting of Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group will examine the thoughts and behaviors that underlie overwhelm. We’ll suggest some better ways to think about clutter problems, and we’ll send you home with a few practical pointers to get unstuck and stay in motion on your organizing goals.
