To escape this negative spiral, tidy by category, not by place.
Marie Kondo • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
We have to be systematic if we want to move on. After doing a full sweep of your house, bagging up the snapshots, sweatshirts, and novelty socks that remind you of them, get it off the premises.
Matthew Hussey • Love Life: How to raise your standards, find your person and live happily (no matter what)
plan for getting rid of our physical belongings; it was also a plan for achieving mental clarity. In creating a personal life that was bare of all but the essentials, parallels to my work started to become evident — what was truly necessary and what wasn’t. By