Hold yourself accountable.

The clutter didn’t just magically appear.

(And won’t magically disappear. Usually only ice cream does that)

Recognize the choices you made in the past that lead to your current situation.

Use what you know now to make different choices going forward. One choice at a time.

One decision at a time to act in a way to move you one step closer to the life and home you want.

The life you want is hiding under all your piles of stuff.

The easiest way to organize your stuff is to get rid of most of it.

You don’t need to be more organized.

You need less stuff.

Limits help us realize how much is enough.

Limits make us conscious of how we spend our time.

Limits set boundaries.

Limits assist us in choosing what to include and what we can let go.

Allow the discipline of limits to create space for the life you really want to be living.

Your home is not a storage unit.

Your home is not the garbage dump.

Your home is not the store.

Your home is not a holding place for all of Justin Case’s things.

If you don’t love it, use it, or value it enough to display it:

Let it go.

While organizing: If you can’t can’t think of a place to store something, you probably won’t remember that you actually own one.

If you don’t know where you’d look to find an item, perhaps that’s a sign you don’t really need to keep it.

Organization isn’t about storage; it’s about knowing where something is when you want it.

The gift that is.

Make at least one part of the gift giving process easy.

No measuring, cutting, taping, fiddling with ribbon, find a matching bow, storing half used rolls, etc. etc.

Gift bags come in a variety of sizes, are reuseable, and speed up the whole wrapping process.

Choose to make this part of your Holiday activities as simple as possible.

Spend time with the people you love, not time wrapping their gifts.

Burn the nice candles.

Eat the good chocolate.

Use the soft towels.

Wear the new sweater.

Open the gifted bottle of wine.

Stop waiting. Treat yourself. (You’re worth it)

Your To BE List is more important than your To DO List. Lauren Rosenfeld

Focus your attention and effort on your TO BE list.