• Be ruthless. Clutter will try to trick you. Question everything.
• First impressions are always correct. If your first feeling is that the thing is clutter, it is. No dumpster diving.
• Your activities can be clutter. I guarantee that something you are doing in your life now is clutter. You may be thinking that your value is determined by the activities in your life. That is untrue. You are already valuable! There is no need to prove anything. Those days are over. Ask, "What makes me happy?" Whatever is left over, toss.
• Any piece of clutter could be the thing that stands between you and your happiness. Nothing is too small to be disregarded. Every piece of clutter keeps you from rolling down the freeway of your life with the windows open and your favorite songs playing, with you singing along.
• Toss the trophies, the things that you own only because they are "valuable." Anything you own to impress others is a waste of your time. No one cares.
• Toss anything that makes you feel that the past is more special than right now, that gives you the feeling that life will never be as good as it once was. I don't care how old you are or what you're doing in your life – you are sitting on a gold mine: you, and the current state of your heart and life. The past is as insignificant as old dishwater. Only keep what reflects your life as significant in this moment.
• Nothing should be under your bed.
Page 2 of 3 - Read page three to find out why not to have a garage sale.
Excerpted from the book Clutter Busting: Letting Go Of What's Holding You Back. © 2009 Brooks Palmer. Printed with permission of New World Library, Novato, CA. All Rights Reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced except with permission in writing from the publisher.
