Creating Your Peaceful & Clutter-Free Home (Audio Course)

1. Introduction: Hello, my name is Emily has a Agafia. Welcome to this 30-day course where you will learn how to create your peaceful and clutter-free home. Your home is your sacred space, your sanctuary, where you go back to relax, to rest, and to spend time with yourself. Your home is a basic human need. Shelter. If you don't feel well in your home, your mental and emotional health can be seriously affected. And you won't be able to live the life that you want. If you at least this course now, it is because you were somehow guided here. The fact that you are here proved that the T is the right time for you to studies your name. This course doubters on key areas that you will need to work on, like awareness, connecting with your true intentions, self-care practices to help you cope with all the emotions that may arise during the process. Dealing with emotional items, creating the time that you need to declare they're communicating with your loved ones. Creation of new habit. And I complete step-by-step method on how to the credit every area of your home. If these sounds, if you then come and join us, I will be supporting you and answer any questions you may have in the course classroom. I cannot wait to spend time with you and see you an amazing transformation. Yes, you can do this. You can create your clutter-free home, and you can start feeling great in your sacred space. This is most likely one of the most important things that you need to do right now, once you create your credit free home, you know that everything else in your life will become better and simpler. Are you ready to make yourself a priority? I will see you inside the course. 2. Understanding Your Clutter: Welcome to the steady the equation where you will learn how to create your peaceful and credit free home. My name is Jose Garcia, and I will be guiding you through this course. Since 2012, I have help individuals and families a decline in their homes. I have seen amazing transformations. In this course, you are going to learn the proven method and steps that produce results and help others eliminate credit from their homes and lives. The three main steps that we are coding in this course, our step-1 awareness, step to take an action. Step three, maintenance and Rachel's step-1 awareness is the most important step. I have dedicated the first nine sessions of this course to the step. And they will be covering becoming aware of your current situation and the reasons why you are where you are accepting and embracing your current situation with compassion, love, connecting with yourself to find out where do you want to go from here. Taking time and space to visualize and connect within your reality you want to create for yourself. Finding ways to involve your loved ones and communicate clearly each other's wants and needs. Undergraduate intentions. Becoming aware of your own self-care needs so that you can cope with any emotions that may show up during the process and becoming aware of your schedule so that you can optimize how you use your time and energy. If you skip this step, most likely you will not be able to hit started due to lack of clarity, confidence, and motivation. Or you may get started, but then you omega0 fab during the process, when things get too emotional, too complicated, you may face too many decisions you don't have answers for. Or maybe others are also involved in the process. And you are not on the same page about how to do this. Some gets stuck due to being too optimistic and unrealistic about how long this process may take, not having good time management strategies. Step to taking action. We'll be sessions ten to 16, and they will be covering step-by-step method to sort the clutter and organize your home. Different methods by other experts in the organization industry. How to deal with emotional items, my mentors and inheritances. How to give you an unwanted items and new life. Giving and receiving gifts with intention, beautifying and cleansing your sacred space and embracing your data, live in your home. Step three, it's maintenance and read to us. Once you have created your credit free home, it's time to maintain it and create new habits and rituals to sustain all the amazing changes that you have created. It's also important to understand the cycles of life and how we need to adjust and transition through all the different stages. You will also learn cleaning routines to keep your home always clean. Session 1718 will be covered in this step. Then Sessions 19 to 29, we'll be diving into the specific areas of your home so that you can have extra support. I am not expecting you to do all this work in gas 30 days. I know that each of you have a unique situation that we require a different length of time. This is why I invite you to listen to this course once you get a very good general idea of the framework to follow the different practices that are available and how to tackle every specific space, then you can decide what space makes the most sense to you to do next. I'm come back to that specific session. The course classroom will always be available to you to ask any questions you may have at anytime now or in the future. You have lifetime access to this course. Unlike them access to the course classroom, I cannot wait to support you in their house. Hardness is the first step in this credit free journey. It's very important that you get a solid understanding of what credit means. So that you can start decluttering every area of your home with confidence and intention. Crater is a personal perception and it can mean something different for every individual. This is why today you are going to learn what credit is and the emotional impact that credit can have in your life. Character over lunch or sensors. Creating stress, making you feel overwhelmed, frustrated. Isolated. I shamed the breast and compliment your ability to think clearly and make good decisions. It also decreases your performance due to all of these instructions. These are several definitions of credit. Collection of things, laying about inner disorder manner. Items that don't belong in this space, that don't have a permanent home. You don't use them. They are broken. They don't add value to your life. Staff that you are storing for someone else. Things that don't fit in the space. Items that prevent you from using this space for its intended purpose. Objects that break the natural flow of this space. Items that back you frustrate you or add meaningless to you. Staff that takes away your time from doing meaningful things, aka destructions. Anything that you don't need. One you don't use. That takes your time, your energy, or a space, and destroys your serenity. This last one is my favorite one. This quote is from craters are learning most. This is an association in the US. Glad it can also be a constant reminder of unfinished projects. Projects that you need to find time to finish, maybe protease that, that's not relevant to you anymore. Things start piling up over time and it becomes more and more difficult to get started. Clutter can be a result of storing stuff or someone else. Lack of time. Too many periods when they go tasks or commitments, having an unbalanced lifestyle, working too many hours, traveled into maths, big life events like the Boers, move a job, change, having a baby, or not having enough time to adjust. Lack of systems to keep things organized. Not having homes for every item. Leaving with all others are not finding a balance. Bringing too many objects home and not having the space to deal with them, store them. Credit can cost you money. You may buy duplicates, you may pay late fees. Can cost you time, time looking for items, longer time to clean and maintain things. Isolation, feeling ashamed to invite people over. Meant a half. Like stress, frustration, depression, anxiety, family conflicts, relationship conflicts, etc. An accident, fire tripping, hotshots, etc. Before bringing items home as yourself. Can I afford this? Can I afford the money, the time, the space, and the energy that these item we require for me. It's important to learn how to say no to items that you don't need. Don't accept items from family members or friends. Unless they bring value into your life. You have the space, the time, and the energy to deal with them. You are working very hard to conquer the clutter in your life. So please ask your loved ones to respect your decision and to support you. I would like to share some of the main concerns that people share with me all the time. These constraints about credit our, Hi, I'm feeling overwhelmed. Where can I get started and how I have a hard time keeping my motivation. I don't have enough time. Some of the feelings that people share when they contact me. I am feeling overwhelmed. I am stressed. I, I'm paralyzed. I am scared. I feel out of control. I am annoyed. I am frustrated. Everything is chaos around me. Feeling anxiety gets to name so and some of the things that they are looking forward. When I asked him, I went to feel relaxed. I want to move on with important things in life. I went to create new opportunities for myself. I want to get results. I want to create practical solutions. I want to feel like home. I want to have systems in place. I need a push. I want to get it done. I went to enjoying my house to the fullest. I am sure that you are nodding your head with some of these because they are very, very common. Now. I would like to do a practice with you. I would like you to get in a comfortable position. I want you to start breathing a few times. Then I want you to close your eyes and visualize your home. Visualize a room of your choice. How does it look like? How do you feel when you think about the room? If you could snap your fingers and see that room transformed and finish. What do you see? How do you feel? What kind of activities would you be able to do? How would the space improve your life? Now, I invite you to move to another space in your house to subspace that is currently causing new frustrations. Space and maybe duet excited about because of its potential space that you see a lot of opportunities with this in practice. What do you see right now? What is the current state of that space? If you could snap your fingers again and see that space transformed. How does it look like? What can you do? How do you feel? When starting this, the cratering journey? He's really, really important to really choose a space to get started. That will bring you a lot of space that when you finish it, you will feel great. You will use every day and you can do this. What's going to happen is that you are going to start feeling motivation. You're going to feel excited. You are going to see a tangible outcome that you have accomplished that's going to cut up, pulled you into the areas of your home. It's going to be like a repo positive effect. Also when you can create a space, if you live with someone else, that these amazing people that are going to notice that people are going to see your excitement. And they may feel excited themselves to. And with that happened, then they are going to be on the same page. And then you can together start making positive changes in other areas of the house. It's really, really important to get a quick win here. I invite you to share this with your loved ones. Share this with anyone who is sharing space with you so that they can learn. They can be on the same page as you. And thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I really honor you for your commitment for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you will learn how to embrace your current life situation. That you can accept it, embrace it, and start moving forward creating the new life that you want. Please don't forget to share in the course classroom your biggest takeaway from today's session and ask any questions that you may have. I really loved reading from you and supporting you. 3. Embracing Your Current Life Situation: It's nice to see you back on day two. Thank you for being here yesterday and will end what credit is on the emotional impact that cleric and have in our lives. Today we are going to become aware of your current situation and really understand why you ended up where you are. There's always a reason or reasons of why things happened the way they did. If you didn't share in the course classroom yet. I really invite you to pause the audio and shared how clutter is affecting your life right now. By doing this, you will be able to come back at the end of the course and see how much progress you have made. Once you become a word of your current situation, it's tend to embrace it and accept it. Everything that happened in the past brought you here. And every present moment is an opportunity for you to start doing something different and more aligned. Please stop beating yourself up about your past and learn how to start living a more intentional and align life. Now, I want to share with you a very nice awareness exercise called the life Change Index Scale or the stress test. If any of the life events I'm about to share with you has occurred in the past year or is expected in the near future, they will have an impact in your overall physical, mental, and emotional health. When these events happen, you will need time to adjust and realign. It is during these periods where creditor can start and can increase. I am going to read you the list starting with the events that can have the biggest impact on your life. First, please keep a mental inventory or write the ones that are or will affect you so that you can reflect about them. Feel free to post any time. If you need. Here we go. Death of a spouse, the board, marital separation, jail term, death of a close family member, personal injury or illness, marriage, fired at work. Marital reconciliation, retirement, changing health of family member, pregnancy, sex difficulties, gain of a new family member. Business, readjustment, changing financial state, death of a close friend, change to a different line of work. Changing number of arguments. With espouse. Mortgage over $20 thousand, foreclosure of mortgage or a loan, change in responsibilities at work, son or daughter, leaving the house. Travel within Los outstanding personal achievement. Spouse begins or stop work, begin or end of school. Change in living conditions. Revisions of personal habit, trouble with both. Changing work hours or conditions. Change in residence, change in schools, changing recreations, change in church activities, change in social activities. Mortgage or loan, less than $20 thousand. Change in sleeping habits, change in number of family, get together, change in eating habits, vacation, Christmas approaching. Minor evaluation of the law. If you would like to get a copy of this exercise so that you can read it. Please share it in the course classroom, and I will make sure that you receive a copy. Another great exercise I would like to share with you is called gatherer. It's a list of 25 questions that will help you find out if you are at greater or not. This is a resource created by the creditors are anonymous and association in the US that offer support for those who desire to stop gathering. My I counter. These are the questions. You can keep count of many yeses and nos you get. Feel free to pause as needed. Here we go. Do you have more positions that you can comfortably handle? Two. Are you embarrassed to invite family, friends, healthcare providers, or maintenance workers into your home because it is not presentable. Three, do you find it easier to drop something instead of putting it away or to watch it into an overcrowded drawer or close it rather than finding space for it. For is your home or any part of it not usable for its intended purpose? With a bed, you can sleep in a garage, you can park in kids, and you can't cook in our table that you can use for dining. Five, is credit causing problems at home, at work, or in your relationships? Six, do you hesitate sharing about this problem because you feel embarrassment, guilt, or shame about it? Seven, Do you have a weakness for the scarlet objects, bargain items, 3-bits, really materials or yard sales. Do you use avoidance, distraction, or procrastination to escape dealing with your credit. Nine, That's your credit, create a risk of falling, fire, infestation or eviction. Ten, do you avoid starting assignments, miss deadlines, or abandoned projects? Because you can find the paperwork material unit 11. Do you have difficulty making decisions about what to do with your possessions, daily living, or life in general. Do you rent storage space to house possessions that you rarely use? 13. Do cleaning, organizing, follow-through, upkeep, and maintenance all become daunting tasks. Making the same place of charge insurmountable? 14. Do you bring an item into your home without designating a place for it and releasing an equivalent 115. Do you believe that there is all the time in the world to clean your house, finish those projects. 100, all those piles of all magazines or newspapers? 16. You easily sidetracked, moving from one period to another without finishing any of them. 17. Are you constantly doing things for others while you're on home is out of order. Do you often replace positions rather than fine or clean those you already have? 19. That's perfectionism. Keep you from doing anything at all. 20. Thus, credit costs you to have late charges added to your monthly financial obligations. 21. Do you feel a strong sense of emotional attachment to what your possessions, which makes it difficult to release them. 22 D, you can see that all your possessions to be of equal worth, whether or not the objects have financial, functional or sentimental value. 23. Do you waste your valuable time and talent by constantly rescue yourself from clutter? 24, thus clutter, keep you from enjoying quality leisure time. Twenty-five, is the clutter program. Growing. The actual number of positive responses is not as important as how you feel inside about your clutter. Please be gentle with yourself and use all this information and new awareness to understand your situation. Don't use this information to blame yourself, criticise, and any other negative self-talk. It's okay if you need time to reflect and assimilate, you are doing great. You are where you need to be right now. You are taking steps to complete your creditor and create the life that you want. You are in the process. Please be patient, keep taking action, and please trust the process. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I know that it was a very intense insertion and most likely a lot of staff came up for you. You are not alone. Feel free to share whatever you need in the course classroom. It will help you reflect in the future. And I want to support you in this. I really do. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where I will share with you some real stories to get you excited and motivated. 4. Real Stories to Inspire You: Welcome back to the three. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you became aware of your current situation. Today. I want you to get inspired by some real stories from people just like you who were struggling with greater, unlearn what they did to turn things around. Better stories are always the best way to relate, get inspired, and connect with the possibility that lays in front of you if they did it. So can you get comfortable, relax, and enjoy listening to the store? In the first study I want to share with you is scheme story. We ask him if she will be willing to share her story. This is what she wrote. I have always been the kind of person who would rather do things myself than ever asked for help. As a kid, I was told that independence will be the most important skill I could ever half. And I have hung onto that for a very long time. Housekeeping, on the other hand, was on tote are strongly. I know how to do it all. I certainly did it when I was a kid, mostly because if I didn't, no one else bold. And I was embarrassed when people came over. But once I moved out, I didn't have the motivation to create any type of good cleaning or organizing habits. Things will get Celtic. I will get frustrated and do a half-hearted, clean, I guess moved stuff around and then was unable to find things and then let it get messy again. At least I could find stuff in my mesh. I have grown tired of this door. It's been awful for my mental health. I realize my depression could be improved dramatically if I was living in a tidy or home. I moved. And I decided the manual department that they adored. I will be organized. I bought shell being stored at your needs and close at organizers and containers and anything else I could imagine I will need. It was horrible. It doesn't matter how many boxes or cabinets and drawers. One hash. If you don't designate as port for each thing, do the self into a new kind of chaos? When I first met the medial and Samantha, Samantha is my wife. They weren't at my apartment. This was absolutely horrifying for me. Having made your anxiety. And so I was quite a met the day they came. My home wasn't anywhere near my normal minimum level of tidy that I wanted it to be for company. But I knew that it was important for them to see exactly what they had to work with. They were very kind and gentle with me, mostly asking about what I wanted to accomplish with their help. We decided starting with the living room would probably be best as it's the space where I spent the most time and needed to be the most functional in my apartment. When they came back to help me with the actual cleaning, the credit rating and organizing a watch. Terribly anxious even after meeting them and knowing exactly what the plan was, I still felt embarrassed and afraid of being seen as a bad person because of my mess. The process itself was definitely difficult, but some unfamiliar were very patient with me and allow me to move at my own pace. I finally got my home to a place where I want it to be. I was so excited when I heard that Samantha Animalia, we'll be doing a workshop close by. I knew I had to go and show them what they had helped me accomplish. Came story is an example of a successful fight against clatter. After struggling with credit for many years, Kim decided to change. She had the right mindset. It was an easy to follow through. But she, Bush had shared through feelings of depression, frustration, embarrassment, and anxiety to finally create the life that she always wanted. It was an easy, but it was totally worth it. And now she enjoys a functional life, doing what she loves. Kim has moved into a new house and sharing the space with a very tidy roommate. She says he can be very challenging, but she loves the new space and has kept the philosophy that every object needs a home. She has been able to follow her hobbies and get a new job that she loves. The next story I wanted to share with you is the story. This is what do they shared after he had experienced decluttering and organizing her entire apartment? I don't think I can really say enough grid staff about these two. Samantha animate this system. They have to help organize or perch. Because they have really helped me change and inspire me to do and think about things differently. But still one that worked for me. I have always dreamed about that someone or some place that could help me achieve what I really want in my living space. Well, they did this. And so much more than organizing. You have to understand that I was so ready on overdue in finding the right people to give me direction, information, resources, tools, and guidance to go through this process of making the most of my space. I knew I was ready for their help to do whatever was necessary to get to that better place. One off, having actual space to move around, to really feel excited about when I walk through my apartment door. No. I really want to be here and really enjoy my home. My gosh, we went through everything and I mean, everything, every little box space basis of furniture we went through to make sure I really, really wanted to keep it or donated, purge it, reuse it, repurpose it, or get rid of it. I am not kidding. I now know exactly what I have and where it is. I am pleased with every decision I made. Note them, but me. I decided what will give me peace and feel comfortable with or without it. My new apartment. We went through each room and yes, a matter of a few sessions in my one bedroom apartment. Now this is my cozy sanctuary. When I open my door, I feel so happy and content, no way that I'm coming home to a sense of calm and simplicity. Place. I finally feel like this is my home. Patients on expertise and understanding how difficult process this might be for me. I felt totally comfortable to the what I needed to do with the guidance, compassion. And they're emphasizing with me as I consider each item we looked at. They never pressure me about anything, will remind me that I didn't need to do something. If I felt I just couldn't At that moment, I never felt rushed or pushed into a decision that wasn't right for me at that time. However, as I said before, I was ready for this huge challenge in my life. I was also tired of moving into a new place. I'm waiting for help to make my place my own node way the moons or years to habits setup to live in. I was started or their status school of its time moving and settling with all the young guy kept taking from one place to the next. And the staff that I knew data fit my lifestyle anymore. I kept losing more and more space in each place I moved into. It was really time to stop all this time to prioritize and find a way to get the help I needed and deserves to feel better about my life. What I had or did a half in my life. Now, it was not really surprising how easy most of it was to let go of staff or to accept a new process to make my space work for me. In the end, I really did feel satisfied, uncomfortable with every decision I did make. The examining the VS was infectious right from the first phone call to the first session and to every session after always a huge smile on their faces and ready to go. They loved, saved my energetic later for phase. Madelyn, my two-year-old puppy dog. Because they love animals. I can now move forward incorporated. All I have learned to maintain my home. I know feel excited to come back home and leaving with contentment. I know I can easily continue to think simple and with ease AT decisions around whether I have a place for this or that, or do I really need it or want it in my space? I hope her story also inspires you to start taking action and creating the home and the life that you really want. The last story I wanted to share with you is Bernard's kitchen. Bednar was feeling frustrated with his kitchen. He was tired of two scene going out to eat because his kids in flow wasn't good. He wants to eat more homemade meals, entertain more often, and stop wasting food that expired in his cabinet. I'm free to. One of the things he was the most frustrated with is how annoying the experience of making breakfast in the morning was. When I asked him what was happening, he described his morning routine in a very funny way. This is more or less what he shared. I am a night guy. Do you know? I work late at night and I am not a morning person adult, but I enjoyed my coffee and eating something right away. When I get up, right now, I get up half awake. I go down to my kitchen and it takes me forever to get my breakfast ready. When I asked him to share his breakfast routine with me, he added a very funny scene of him every morning. He said so I come down to the key, turn half awake. I look for the coffee that is in this cabinet here. Then I go to the coffee maker that this on the other side of the key churn. Then I need my coffee Macs that are over there. Then I come back here, I get some coffee. I didn't walk over there to get some sugar. And then while I see about my coffee, I tried to wake up and then I went to toast. I look for some bread. I need to clear some space on my counter to get the toaster going. I need to walk over there to get a plate to put my toast on. It just takes forever to make a simple tools and coffee every morning. Can you imagine how frustrating this is? Honestly, it was very funny the way he described it and how he acted, his experience. I know that many of you are related to the situation. When I asked him what his reasoning was for getting organized, this is what he shared. I find myself eating out too much. I also throw away a lot of expire food because I can't access it easily. I went to get more involved into cooking, but I don't feel comfortable in my kitchen. And I want to have an easier morning routine. The specific goals for Bernard's Pro yet where having a clear countertop create a breakfast station, improve his kitchen flow. Optimize the use of every cabinet in his kitchen, and have easy access to the things that he uses more often, as you can imagine. But it was very happy once all these frustrations were gone and his day-to-day life became easier and more enjoyable. Some other quick real stories with good intentions, our home office project. The motivation to declutter was I can leave in this organization anymore and I need a fresh start. I cannot do it alone. The desired outcomes were having a clear desk where I can work on, Create a paper system, get rid of all the crap, field, come and uncontrolled and be ready for taxes. A bedroom project. The motivation to declutter these bedroom was I would like to create my space when I can feel calm. I don't want to see papers anymore and I want to find things when I need to. I want to finish my ongoing projects. The desired outcomes for these bedroom where being able to use the bed, half a nice reading chair, make the space feel like it is MySpace. Create a paper system that works for me. And having a nice quiet room to what's dB on my own. The last one is a garage project. The motivation to the currently, this garage was we don't like a cold snowy cut in the mornings. I also don't know what to do with my wet hockey equipment. It's always on the floor. I would like to bike more, but it's not easy to get my bikes out of the garage. So the desired outcomes were parked the car intake or rash, easy access to the bikes, assist them to hang my hockey equipment, create a garbage station, access to the gardening tools, and have nothing on the floor. I would like to finish today's session with two questions for you to reflect about. Question number one, what is your motivation for the catering? Question number two, what are your desired outcomes? Be specific and share your answers in the course classroom. I promise you will love reading them in the future. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I hope you got inspired by this real instructor. I am very excited because I can't wait to see your own transformation and how you will feel it happening. You are on your way. Yeah, I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you will learn how to overcome resistance and get into your flow. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 5. Overcoming Resistance & Getting Into Your Flow: Hello, Welcome back today for thank you so much for coming back. In the last session, you got inspired by some real stories I share with you. Now that you are aware of your situation, you are ready to connect with the new reality that you want to create for yourself. Reality that these exciting and align a reality that just feels good. You are about to get into your flow and you are going to love it. This session is inspired by our request I received my circle from a member. This is what she shared. People often repeat the style of living they grew up with. It feels like home. I guess. To me it will be helpful to have some guiding questions with which to reflect. Where do I come from, where I am at, and where do I want to end up? These could include the energetic aspects of clutter, like an deeming our light and stepping into our true power. Allowing for that. I guess with a clear perspective on these things, the decisions needed on the way becomes so much easier. Totally agree with this. When making changes in your life, you are challenging all beliefs, all patterns, and all habits that are very familiar. That God you where you are right now. While you are motivated and excited to do something different, it's normal to encounter resistance. To change. This resistance can show up for you in many different ways. And it's very important to become aware of it. You are confronting yourself. All the beliefs that you have learned in the past and the lifestyle that you had until now. You're at least our brain, the one who tries to keep you safe, it scared of these changes. This uncertainty has a hard time letting go of the familiar of your comfort zone. The predictable. You are entering uncharted territories. And it's part of your work to deal with the resistance along the way. Some examples of how this resistance can show up. Our emotionality, like frustration, feeling overwhelmed, being afraid, feeling irritable, anxiety of the unknown, being afraid of failing, not being perfect, being afraid of all these reactions to your new choices, etc. Physically, physical pain, headaches, stomach cramps type, neck and shoulders. Relationships, loved ones not supporting you, not understanding what you are doing, not getting what they use to get from u, etcetera. If you are taking this course, most likely you may be feeling frustrations, lack of meaning, and direction. You may be feeling not align with yourself. Maybe overwhelmed. Yes, to name. All these emotions are entry points and opportunities for you to discover what you really want. Opportunities to confirm yourself and to change your habits, routines, and your mindset. These changes are necessary in order to create or maintain the new home and the new lifestyle that you want to have. Please be gentle with yourself. You have been repeating these patterns and habits. Most likely for a really long time. Most of them will create it when you were a child. You have carried them all the way here. Normal. And we all create beliefs that will serve us in some way. The problem is that as we're both unchanging life, we keep all these beliefs even if they no longer serve as most likely. No One share with you how to create new ones and let go of the old ones. I created the session to give you time and space to help you uncover these beliefs, these resistance, and start understanding them and letting them go with love and compassion. Once you start doing this, you will start noticing how much easier it is for you to get into your flow. Whatever that means to you, you will start feeling more aligned, more grounded with yourself with what you really want. Once that happens, you will have more clarity and confidence about what kind of home do you need to create to support yourself? Let's do a practice together. Please get in a comfortable position. You can move to a different location if you want. Feel free to pause the audio and come back when you are ready. Close your eyes if you can. Take a deep inhale. Hold it. An Excel making a comfort in sound. Like let's do a couple more together. Hold it. Then Excel. One more. I wanted to do a quick body scan to become aware of any tension in your body. Start with the top of your head. Breathe in and out while you direct your focus to the top of your head. Start going down slowly towards your eyes, cheeks, neck, shoulders. Pay attention to how you feel in every area. If you notice any tension, you can stay there for a little bit. You can inhale, direct your breathing to that tension. Hold your breath there for a few seconds. And then visualize that tension. Going away with your Excel out into the universe and dissolving. Notice how the attention is now gone. And you feel more relaxed and more comfortable. If you want. You can be sure lysate bright light coming in with your breath, leaving your body out, carrying that tension with your exhale. You can do this as many times as you need until you feel good. Then Kim moving down towards your chest, belly, legs, knees. Indeed, and toss. Take as much time as you need and feel free to both. Come back when you are complete. I recommend you do a body scan anytime you are facing our frustration. Challenge. When do you feel out of alignment with yourself or when you are feeling lack of gravity. Remember that the resistance will show up in many different ways. And your job is to notice it. Keep breathing in and out comfortably. And notice how you feel more and more relaxed with every breath. Focus your attention now into the things you want to change in your life. You can do a mental inventory of the main ones. You can scan every area of your life and notice the ones that frustrate you the most. The one that excites you the most. Or you can guess, remaining silent for a few seconds. And notice which one comes to you first. That isn't a right or wrong way to do this. When you have some clarity and some specific things you want to change. I want you to focus your attention into one specific thing and think of their beliefs that created this a fixed situation in your life. For example, you may be having privileged with grader at home and you believe that you are not able to deal with them. Then I invite you to investigate what is he a specific belief behind this product? In the example I shared, it will be that you don't feel good enough. Once you have identified the belief, It's tend to find how it went. This belief was formed in the example I shared. This belief was formed when you were a child because your mom or dad repeatedly pointed only the things you did broke, but barely praised you for the things that you the right. This is just one example. Now that you have clarity about the belief that this course in this situation, you went to change. You know, when this belief was created, it's time to change it for a better one. The first step is to become aware of the reasons why this happened and be able to forgive, Let it go. In the example I shared, you may speak with your parents and asked them about their childhood. You may then understand that they were victims of their parents or was pointing out what they did wrong because they truly believe that was the best way to help you become better. You then can be shown as your mom or dad being a three-year old and their parents always pointing out their mistakes. You can use afford often if you have one. When you do this, you will have a lot more empathy and understanding of the reasons why they did what they did. I believe that we all do the best we can with the understanding we have in the moment. Then you can truly forgive them and lead this emotional baggage. Cool. Once you do this, you will feel very relieved and free. It's time now to create the new belief. That will all be right, the old one. In this example, the old belief that was causing the problem was, I am not good enough. The new belief can be something like, I am in the process of learning how to do this. I will allow myself time and space to try fail. Ask for help. Then finally, on the way, it's very important to create a new belief that makes you feel well and motivated. I invite you to do the same process with any other problems you are facing that's blocking you from moving forward. I am going to give you some time with music for you to do your magic. When you are ready, I invite you to come back. Thank you so much for finishing this session. Please share in the classroom your experience after today's session and any questions that you may have. More specific your question. They bid it answered, I can share with you. You can ask several questions if you need to. You can also share what came up for you. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we're going to do a visualization of your sacred space. This is at very mindful tool that you can use before the cratering any space to gain clarity about what you really want. Hamwi claim to love it. I hope you have animation rest of your day. 6. Visualizing Your Sacred Space: Welcome back to the five. Thank you for being here again. You are doing great progress so far. Today we are going to do our visualization meditation. To help you visualize your sacred space. You can do this visualization meditation before the cratering any space in your home. Meditation has long being a tool for building strength and clarity. Here, we explored the idea that you can use this tool for breaking through difficulties with credit and letting go. This may be addition is the sign to be a relaxing and motivating way to take control of your quest for leaving with what's important to you. Please get in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Think about the space that you went to the credit. Unorganized merging, standing in the middle of that room, and slowly turning around to see everything in it. Take your time as you look around the space. Think about how much this comfort you feel will be visualizing this room on a scale of 0. No discomfort. And 100, the most discomfort. Think about how you are feeling as you stand in your own. Feelings might be negative. Like you could be feeling anxious, fearful, embarrassed, ashamed, guilty, disgusted, confused, overwhelmed. In oriented, hopeless, depressed, frustrated, or discouraged. Feelings might be positive. Two, you could be feeling happy, pleased, relieved, comforted, helpful, proud. Guessed, take time to explore how you'd really feeling. It is okay to feel several things all at once. It field anxiety and exhaling. At the same time. Take your time and explore every feeling that's coming up for you. Next, think about what thoughts might be going through. Your main. Could be thoughts like DC, sadly, high will never find anything in these myths. There must be buried treasures here. It will only take me a little while to clean this up. This is really a very breathable, it's not so bad. Think about this link between your feelings and your thoughts. Now, I want you to think about the same space. But we realized that the creditor not gone by, that everything is organized. I'm put in its place. There is no clutter. Everything that you wanted to keep it still here. But organizing and put in its place. What does the SRM look like? They're anchored there, furniture, tops. Is there for free from gravity with early racks and furniture. As you visualize, these are crowded space. Consider what you can do with this room. What kind of activities could you engage in? What does your furniture look like? How would you decorate the room? Allow yourself time to embrace this new space. Frames that you would experience with those feelings. Now, be shoelace yourself in that space. Having lots of fun. Being creative. Feeling count. Explain how uncomfortable you feel. This way. No discomfort. And 100 demos discomfort you have ever felt. Now compare the rating with the fish rating. Notice a difference. Stay here for us if you want. When you feel ready. Prepared to open. Congratulations. You have completed the credit be surely session meditation. I invite you to do this exercise as many times as you need to gain clarity and confidence about your desired outcome in every space you are about to the credit and organize. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I hope you enjoyed this visualization meditation. What the UC, how did you feel them? Please share your experience in the course crashing so that you can come back later and reflect about it. And as always, share any questions that may be showing up for you, even if they had from previous sessions. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to declare your intentions and connect with your life. Be sure. Until then. I hope you have animation rest of your day. 7. Declaring Your Intentions & Connecting with Your Life Vision: Welcome back to day six. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you data visualization meditation. To help you really connect with the new space that you want to create. Today is the time to declare during tensions and create your life vision. It's important for you to write it down so that you can reflect in the future and be amazed by your progress. When you take the time to create your life vision, you will gain clarity, confidence, and motivation. You will be able to get in your flow easily. And you will be able to declare that and create spaces that support your desired lifestyle, your life patient and your intentions can be changed anytime your life needs change. So don't worry, you are not going to be stuck with them. Each way easier to sit intentions and take confident action when you are clear and align with the overall lifestyle that you want to have. This is higher lifestyle can be called life vision. Their lifestyle. Your why do at identity or whatever or the description sounds good to you. I'm motivates you to take action. Now. I want you to have pen and paper handy. Feel free to pause the audio and come back when you are ready. We are going to do an exercise I call my creation. This exercise is going to help you capture your life vision by becoming aware of the important things that you want to include in every area of your life. In your paper, you can write these headings. Body, mind, family, social, work. Give him back. Feel free to add or remove headings as you see fit. The idea here is to capture the important areas of your life. Once you have the headings below it heading, I invite you to write down three to five things that are important, that are priorities for you in each area. For example, under the home category, do you may write something like this? It unorganized my garage so that I can pack my cutting the winter. Under your body category. You may bright degraded and organize my basement so that they can set up my game for the wintertime. Or under your family and social category, you can write something like the greater than organized my kitchen and dining room so that I can entertain my loved ones. By doing this exercise. Dividing your life in key areas. You are allowing yourself to be more specific about what you really want and sit. Very intentional outcomes. Don't worry if it looks messy. This is your first time and you can tweak it as you go. Don't let perfectionism get on the way. Allow yourself some quiet time before, during, and after this exercise. If you feel it can help you get grounded. Get clarity, visualize what you just described. There is no right or wrong way. Do whatever feels good to you. Once you have finished your creation. Make sure that you put it in a very be sure place. You can have fun with it by using different colors. For each key area. You can draw on it. You can be as creative as you like. I invite you to reflect often. Do a new creation anytime you feel stuck, lacking direction or frustrated. I normally do this every three to six months. Sometimes I'd be longer, sometimes it'll be shorter. It all depends on how much my life has changed. For example, I am looking at one of my creations and I'm looking at the home category. And underneath I have the gradient organized my basement so that we can rotate activities more easily. So here in Kerala, when we go from winter to summer and vice versa, we change drastically the activities that we do. For us, it is important to change and rotate our sports equipment from the basement to our shared so that it's easily accessible. For example, in the winter we do cross-country skiing. We go tobacco nine. We may go like skating. Those are some of the activities that we do. In the summertime. I rolled a blade. We play badminton, we bicycle more. We make sure that all those things are available depending on the season. That's one thing I have in here. I also have optimize the usage of our tiny office. We do have a little tiny office in the backyard and it's changing a load as our needs change. Before it was at yoga studio for my wife. Now, it's going to become more of an office space. So we need to put our desk inside and we need to change the layout of the space. That's another thing that is in my, in my home. That's my buddy God's eye. What if, for example, one of my priorities is to drink more water everyday. So I have it there. I want to drink at least one to two liters of water every single day. The way for me to do that is to drinking glasses of water, maybe one or two when I wake up in the morning. And then one or two during the day, a few times, and then drink some water before going to bed. Again, it doesn't matter how you do it. Do you set the intention? You have that reminder in there. These are just some examples of things that I might creation. I invite you to do the same in yours. If you are feeling overwhelmed, you don't have to come up with things in every area. I willing by U2. Reflect about each area and see how you feel. If you are feeling good about a specific area. Maybe you don't have to change anything right now. Maybe you need to focus on are on a different area that you are feeling frustrated with. Don't let this exercise overwhelm you. The idea here is to get an understanding of how your life looks like and how you fit in every area so that you can identify what needs change. Then when you identify what needs change, you look at your home. Then you think about how can I change my home in a way that we facilitate the things that I want to do in my life. You see the relationship here. This is really, really important because you are home, has to be designed to facilitate the identity. You want to have, the lifestyle, you want to have, the activities that you want to do. That's the whole goal of this exercise. Once you finish your creation, you are ready to move into the next exercising call describing your ideas of space. I want you to look at everything that you wrote down in your creation exercise. Think how these things relate to your home. For example, if you brought to exercise more, maybe you want to create a game space in your home. If you brought down to entertain more friends and family, then maybe you want to optimize your ketone flow and create an inviting dining area. If you want to start a new hobby, maybe you need to declare it and create your own classroom. If you find yourself wanting to be more productive at work and you work from home, you may want to optimize how you use your home office. Once you identify the different spaces you want to create or change, it's time to prioritize which one is the most important that you want to get started with? Do you need to get started somewhere? Make sure that you pick the space where you would spend the most time in the space that you may use, the most space that will give you the most joy. It's very important to pick a space that you can start and finish so that you can get that motivation kick of being able to accomplish something tangible with a very rewarding visual transformation. Once you complete that space, you can then move to the next one. Don't worry about the how-to yet. We will talk about that soon. Now we are declaring our intentions and learning to practical exercises to help you with that. Let's do the describing your idea of space. X is ice. Please grab a pen and paper. I want you to write on the top of the bait, your ADL space. On the right-hand side, I want you to write to this date on the top right corner. Then below you can write describe your product and name it. So I want you to actually come up with a name undescribed with one sentence what you are trying to do, maybe your description can be basement gym, and then the sentence can be I1 to create space in my basement, to have a gym where I can exercise daily. Then on the right-hand side, I invite you to bright the timeline. When would you like to have this spray completed by? Then underneath, I will invite you to write, what do you love right now from the space. So in the case of the basement, what do you love For enough from your basement? Is there anything that you really love? I'm below. I would like to invite you to bright. What do you hate? What frustrates you? By doing that, you are making sure that you keep the things that you like from that space. You don't change them. You are going to change the things that are frustrating you, the things that you don't like. So for example, if you say, I really love that shelf, that allows me to store all my equipment in a very nice way. So don't change that because you loved that. If you have I really hate that bookshelf. That this only way to get to the basement because every time I go, I guess stomach feed on it or I guess we find carrying something. It's on the way. Maybe you want to change the location of that bookshelf to eliminate that frustration. Once you have those two list, what do you love? What do you hate? It's time to stop writing the tasks that come to mind. Okay? Start listing all the tasks that are coming to mind that you need to do. For an example, clear the space in the basement, donate things that I no longer need. Maybe you are storing things for someone else. Write down. I have to contact Peter and asked him to get his things by this date, etc? Yes. Make a mental note of everything that comes to mind that you need to go. The last thing I want you to create a list of its challenges. Try to bright the challenges that you are going to face. For example, you may be facing the challenge of, I need help to move the exercise equipment because it's heavy. So I need someone to help me with that. I will need someone to help me take things away because I don't have a button. I have a very small card and things don't fit in there. Or maybe I don't have time. I need to find our way to create time to do the spread before the timeline that I have. Feel free to write every challenge that comes to mind. Once you have this exercise completed, it's going to be easier for you to move forward. When we start moving forward with the how-to, you are going to have these two exercises to help you understand what you really want. To help you have an idea of how to move forward. If you shared your space with someone else, inviting the people that you live with to do this exercise and share the outcomes can be very, very powerful. An eye-opening, it's easier to co-create a great shared space when everybody is aware of each other's needs and desires. You will also be on the same page and everybody will feel included. So please make sure that you include everybody else who is going to use the space. Sometimes you guys are going to have different ideas on how to use the space. If you know each other's needs and wants and desires. It's going to be easier to create a common space that can facilitate the activities that you want to do and the activities or the other person or persons one to do. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I hope that you enjoyed declaring your intentions. Please share your goals and the spaces you are planning on creating in the course classroom so that you can come back later and reflect about your progress in order to ask any questions you may have. I am here for you. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn waste to include others in your credit free journey. And today, I hope you have animation. Rest of your day. 8. Including Others In Your Clutter-Free Journey: Hello, Welcome back to day seven. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you declared your intention and connected with your life Bayesian. I am sure that you are getting very excited with all the good that is about to come into your life. In the next session, we will be covering how to find the time to create your credit free home. Because many of you may be thinking, my life is already BC, BC. I don't have time to do this. It's normal to feel this way. And I promise you, I will check great practical ways to start carving out time here and there, so that you can start opening up more space, more time, and more energy for the things that you want in your life. Before start taking action, it's very important to include others in your journey, especially if they live with you. If you start making changes and the people around you have no idea what's going on. They may feel this wrapped it, confused, upset. These respected, not heard, not included, offended. Just to name some emotions that can arise. Imagine that you arrive home one day and you'll find your home completely changed. Things are moved around. No one asked you anything. You got to make yourself TI net and the plates are not what they used to be. You can't find the calorie. The ****** are not in the right cabinet. Like always have been. How will you feel? Frustrated, surprise, overwhelmed, angry. This is why it's so important to include your loved ones in this process. Even if they say, it sounds great, an item want to be a part of it. You include them in the process and they are giving you the permission to do this. You need to find a way to communicate what you are doing while you are doing this. How important making these changes are for you. You can even share the exercises we did in the past sessions for them to see and understand you more. They can even do them to ideally, I will ask them nicely to do the exercises with you or separately and then come back together and share. This will be the best way to become aware of each other's needs and want to become aware of the changes that everybody would like to make and to really understand each other's life vision and intentions. When you do this, moving forward, I'm finding the happy balance will be way easier. You can then design together how every space in the house can look like, what activities you are planning on doing in its space. And if conflicts arise, because they most likely will, it's a great opportunity to talk about them. From our respectful and curious point of view. It's way easier to compromise when you feel valued and respected. Someone who my circle, you're thriving lifestyle. Asked what are playful and constructive ways to find out about needs of everybody? To draw up a shared vision from there, to get into changing things together in a fun way. What everybody is taking his part of responsibility in the process, like tips on how to become a better team and creating a great space to live in. Isn't this a wonderful reflection on question? The answer to this question is to include them in the process. To invite them to think about their life vision, about the activities they would like to do in the rooms and in the common areas. How about how they want to feel at home? How they want to use a key chain. How about the family activities at everybody may enjoy, like Friday pizza and movie night, Saturday board games night, yoga or meditation morning routine. Just to name some ideas. The secret is to get them excited and pumped to do this because they will benefit from it when you can, what they love doing. And you suggest to make changes so that they can do that thing. They will be excited, inspired, and ready for action. I remember helping a family clean up a garage and they were thrilled when we showed up. We declared it the garage. We optimize the vertical space usage. When we were done, there was a big open space in the middle. I then so then dragging the hockey equipment out and started playing hockey. They were so excited because they finally had a meeting before we came. And they wanted to be able to play hockey in the winter inside the garage. That was the motivation they needed to get involved in the process. They always put things back in its place because they want to give that open space for the game. You'll see this is the power of a WordPress. It can have a huge impact in how we take action. Because we will take the right action that will save everybody. If you find a wall when sharing these ideas and they don't want to do anything, then you have to respect that too. Not everybody is ready for this. Not everybody cares about this. I know that this is hard, and I know that when this is your situation, I recommend that you get started with your own stuff first, with your own spaces first. Many times when all other see the transformation and they see you being happier, uncommon there. They may feel inspired to join you. And if they don't, then you have the opportunity to get some practice and some wind with your own stuff. First, you will start creating healthy boundaries, finding ways to communicate your needs in a nicer way. And hopefully they will start seeing amazing results. Will be more willing to be curious and talk with you about the common spaces. Get curious about their hobbies, passions, and things they enjoy doing, and try to create a space that will facilitate yes. Some of you may be dying to create your credit free home. And you may be living with all these who don't care at all. Maybe you are doing a lot of work to keep everything tidy. And in yes. Minutes, they will create a mess and won't clean up after themselves. I want to share what someone shared in my circle. When I asked what they wanted me to cover in this course. Family members, not children are yes, saying that they are lazy or we'll do it later. However, in the meantime, they are leaving a mess behind that only gets cleaned by me when I have time and energy. In this example, there is a toxic dynamic happening. Family members are taken advantage of the person who always clean up after them. These special clearly feels frustrated and unbalanced. This person is involved in our dynamic that no longer serves her. She tried to confront them. The excuse is I am lazy. Conclusion is that it takes to, to dance. Meaning dynamic will only work when both part participating in this specific case. I will suggest trying some of these steps. Clearly communicate your needs and how you feel. It has to be clear and precise. Something like when you use the kitchen to make yourself a snack and then leave everything out, it makes me feel not loved, not respected. It makes me feel that you don't care about me. And it makes me feel like you are taking advantage of me. If water not flowing out, then try to make a video and send it to their font. Try to write them a letter, an email, whatever way may reach them. Then half a conversation after clearly request your needs. In this case, the requests may be something like, I am tired of tidying up after you, and it is normally responsibility. I will appreciate if you can take responsibility for your own staff. Happy to show you how to do it. If you don't know how. If the other person is not willing to participate, listen, try to change and they avoid you and keep doing the same thing, then you can start creating a healthy boundary and getting out of the dynamic. It may take a few tries to find the best way to do this. And it will cause some conflicts at the beginning for sure. But you can embrace this new boundary with love and positivity. For example, if they always leave a mess in the kitchen, you have to clean up, always after them. Maybe you stop cleaning dishes until data Non to use. You read the situation, affect them in a negative way. When they confront you about why you don't clean up the dishes, you have to stay calm. Lobbying. And yes, say something like, I love you, honey. And I told you that I was tired of doing dishes. It's not fair that I am the only one doing them. When we all use them. I would love to have a conversation about how we can move forward in a way that will feel good. Do you have time now? Do you have any ideas? This is just one example. I hope you get the idea and the framework that you can use. The most important thing is that you remain calm, lobbying, and respectful towards no one will react poorly to love and compassion. Even if they are being challenged. Even if they scream at you. If you don't get triggered and you don't react poorly, if you remain calm and yes. State your point of view and asked for a conversation. If they keep screaming at you or being disrespectful, you can protect yourself by leaving the space and leave them alone. You can say something like, I see you're being very upset. I am going to give you space and time. Let's talk once you are calmer, but don't fall back into doing what you use to do, because that's what the whole dynamic is looking for. If you start holding these new boundaries from a place of love, compassion, and alignment with yourself. It's just a matter of time for things to change. You will no longer be a part of the same dynamics that used to drain you. It's normal for this to take time. Just think about how long these dynamics have been going on for. They will know just dissolve into nothing in just a few days. You have to stay grounded, connected with your life vision, with your intentions, holding your space. And always pin count, lobbying, compassionate, and respecting yourself and respecting knowledge. Now, I would like to give you some time for you to reflect about your own situation and how you shared your space with others. I hope this session brought some light into waste to include your love watch in theocratic free journey. I would love to support you further. Please share any questions, shared your specific situation, your specific toxic dynamic, you are trying to change with details. And I promise I will answer you with another response. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session. Where do you are going to learn how to find time to make your transformation and reality. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 9. Finding & Protecting Time for Your Transformation: Welcome back Today. Eight. Thank you for coming back. In the last session, you learned the importance of including your loved ones in your credit free journey and some strategies to help you clearly communicate your needs and create healthy boundaries. Today you are going to learn how to find time to create your clutter-free home and how to protect that time against the instructions and time wasted. By now, you have a very clear picture in your head of how you want your life to look like. You became aware of the activities you want to do. You became aware of the challenges you are facing. You have included your loved ones in your journey. Or at least get started working on creating healthy boundaries. Clearly communicating your needs, and taking steps to change toxic dynamics into more healthy and empowering. Once you are connected and aligned with your life, patients are feeling excited and motivated to take action. The next natural challenge, that many phase at this point is to find the time to do this. It's normal. Your life right now may feel very full, very busy. Maybe you have a clear idea of where your autonomy scoring. Maybe you don't really know where your time is calling. It doesn't really matter where you are right now. I am going to share with you some strategies that will help you create your ideal week and start using your time, your energy, and your creativity in a more aligned way. The first exercise we are going to do, It's creating your ideal week. Don't worry. I know it may sound overwhelming. I will guide you through this exercise in a practical and fun step-by-step, your name. I want you to take pen and paper. If you have colors handy, please grab them to feel free to pause and come back when you are ready. I want you to take a few deep breaths with me. Okay. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Allow yourself to make a relaxing noise. If you feel like it. Now. I want you to close your eyes if you can, about your week. I want you to start on Monday morning. What time do you normally wake up? What do you do first thing in the morning? Do you have a lot of energy? Does it take you a little bit of time to get started with your day? Visualize everything you do. Maybe you wash your face. Maybe you make a coffee or tea. Maybe you exercise. Maybe you look at your phone or computer. Try to visualize what do you normally do with as much detail as you can? What time do you eat lunch? Maybe you just not to in today. What do you do after lunch? What time do you have dinner? How are your energy levels during the day? When do you feel the most energized? When do you feel the most tired? What activities are exciting to you during the day? What activities trained you during the day? What time do you go to bed? Do you have a bedtime routine? How do you sleep at night? Do you wake up a lot? Do you sleep like a rock until the alarm goes off? Do you use an alarm? Then moved to Tuesday? And do the same process. Visualize yourself doing what you normally do. Notice the things you like. You don't like. Notice your energy levels throughout your day. The activities that energize you and make you feel great. The activities that you dislike and drain your energy, or make you feel upset, frustrated. Think about the people you interact throughout the day with. How did you feel after interacting with them? Then keep doing the same process in everyday until Sunday. Okay. If you don't remember everything, I just want you to become aware of your current week. How you feel, the activities that you remember, your energy cycles, your creativity cycles. Any other thing that came out for you? Take your time to keep visualizing everyday until you reached Sunday night. You go to sleep. If you need more time, please pause the audio and come back when you are ready. Now, I want you to create your week on your paper or your RNA. I want you to create seven columns, Monday to Sandy, and create a column on the left where you will write the times. For example, my time starts at 02:00 AM and finishes at 11 PM. I use one hour increments. Yours may look different and that's okay. By the end of this exercise, you will have your entire week in front of you with a time column on the left. Feel free to pause the audio at any stage of this exercise if you need more time. We are not aiming for perfection here. This is your first attempt to doing this. So please allow yourself to be messy, to make mistakes, to tweak and change things as needed. You can always redo this exercise in a new blank piece of paper as many times as you want. You can also transfer this week into your digital calendar. But IS, do this exercise with me on paper first. Now, I want you to start putting things in your week. You can start with your sleep, create a block for your sleeping time. Mine is from 11 PM until seven AM. If you have colors, you can choose a color for your asleep. For example, green. Then start creating blocks of time for the things that always happen the same way. For example, you may work nine AM to five PM Monday to Friday. So put that in your week. You may go to the gym every Tuesday and Thursday from five to 07:00 PM. You may do grocery shopping on Friday night at 07:00 PM? Yes. Start coloring in all the activities that come to mind and repeat every week. You can use different color for every activity. It's okay if you only have a few. And Allen showed up when the other ones happen, maybe you don't have structured yet. And that's okay. If you feel that you're weakest scales and have no idea where your time is going. I invite you to audit your week. You can use the same blank template that we have it and start dragging everything that you are doing. If you want to see an example of mine, you can ask in the course classroom, and I will share it with you. Once you have outdated one or two full weeks, you will then know where your time is going. I invite you to also bright comments on how you feel everyday and any specific notes. Like, I felt great after going to the gym or doing maybe as late at night really drained me. And they were some focus at all. Next time I will try in the morning. It may seem like a daunting task for you. But let me ask you, how is your time management working for you right now? How are you willing to invest a bit of time once, to create time every week for the rest of your life. Hi, I'm sure that the answer is yes. Once you have completed this exercise and you have a clear picture of how your current will look like. It's time to get into the fun process of creating your idea week. Now you have the opportunity to reflect about your current week and eliminate things that you no longer need. Change things around depending on your energy and creativity levels. Integrate the things you want to start doing, etc. Remember that each not going to be perfect from day one. The goal of perfection and get started. My first idea week only had my sleep time, breakfast, lunch, dinner, game twice a week, and grocery shopping. Honestly, I hadn't no idea how to include the rest. And when I am self-employed and I have no structure for me, it was overwhelming. But I got started. I outdated my time three weeks in a row. Then I was able to start creating windows of time for work, for self-care, for exercise, for time with my daughter, etc. Every week got better and better because is able to reflect. I was able to break down what I liked, what I didn't liked, eliminate things I no longer enjoyed. Start doing new things and testing how they felt. You see, it's a work in progress that will get better and better the more you do it. Now, my wife and I have a very intentional week that supports our needs. And once we both feel empowered and supported by each other, we are feared than we were before when we didn't have cavity or intention. I want you to get the same feeling. Now it's time for you to revisit your creation, your life mission. And all the awareness exercises with it in past lessons and study, including more of these things in your week. Moving forward, when you start learning how to start decluttering your home, you will be able to create time for your decluttering process in your week two, I can't wait to see how much progress you start making. It's gonna be amazing. When you are setting goals for yourself. Remember to use the smart formula. Smart stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. One example of a goal can be, I went to feel better at home. But this doesn't follow the smart formula because it is not specific, it's not very clear. A better goal will be, I want to organize my kitchen at home. So now we have a specific space, but still not very specific and it's not timer. So a really good one that follows this math formula can be, I went to clean and organized all the food in my fridge and pantry by May 15th and half a clear counter space. As you see, these colonies is specific because you do not specifically where you want to do. You can measure it if it's finished or not. It's attainable. You can do it. It is relevant to you because that's the goal that you want it for yourself and it is time-bound. It has a specific date. I went to finish to this session with a great time management technique that will help you stay on track, stay energized and motivated while you are getting things done. This method is called the Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro Technique is a time management system that encourages people to work with the time that they have rather than against it. Using this method, do break your day into 25 minute chunks, separated by five-minute breaks. After about four pomodoros, you take a longer break of about 15 to 20 minutes. You will use a timer to do this. I recommend using a kitchen timer or other analog timer rather than your phone. To avoid distractions, please feel free to tweak the length to suit your focus capacity. The Pomodoro technique helps you resist all of those self interruptions and retrain your brain to focus. Its Pomodoro is dedicated to one task and it's break. A chance to reset and bring your attention back to what you should be working on. On those breaks. I encourage you to, in practice, self-care. Any activity that really gives you energy and makes you feel well. I hope this session gave you some clear and practical ideas to find time and protected against the instructions and time wastage. I would love to support you further. So please share any time management questions that you may have in the course crash on. Don't be shy to share details about your specific situation. And I promise I will answer you with a detailed out your response. If you want to see examples of my own ideas week and how I out in my time. Let me know and I will share them with you. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you're going to learn how to use self-care practices to radius, overwhelm and improve your overall mental and emotional health. Your mind is going to love it. Until then, I hope you have an MAC address of your day. 10. Reducing Overwhelm, Mental Health, & Selfcare Practices: Welcome back Today Nine. Thank you for being here again. In the last session, you learn how to monitor your current week, how to create your idea week, how to set smart goals, and the Pomodoro Technique to help you stay focused and include breaks into your day. Today we are going to learn self-care practices. This journey will be a roller coaster of emotions. Feeling overwhelmed, triggered, emotional, sad, guilty, happy, excited, and many other states are normal and unnecessary part of this journey. When do the crater you are questioning and confronting your past, the decisions you made, the actions you took, the habits you followed. And if you are doing this process with orders, they will also face emotions. You may be questioned in decisions you made together. Dynamics you created that no longer serve you. Many other triggers that you may not be aware of. Now, many people are not aware of how deep this process is. And not being aware of this can set you up for failure. Because once you start facing these emotions, you need to have tools to cope with them, understand them, accept them, and change him in an empowering way. Self-care is a very simple, yet powerful tool that you have to go with all of these emotions. Self-care can also improve your productivity and focus while the category. In this session, you will learn how to use self-care practices to improve your mental and emotional health. I want to share with you a great self-care exercise called creating your own self-care list. When you are not feeling well, it's important to have a mental health toolbox to help you cope with whatever is coming up in a healthy way. Sometimes you may need to take a break. Sometimes you may need to be able to understand. Sometimes you may need a long time. Many times you may need to just breathe deeply a few times to feel better. Activities that energize you. Activities that make you feel well. I am sure you are already aware of some of them. There may be many, many more that you need to discover and try. I invite you to get pain it and get comfortable. You can use your journal to grab color paints if you have some handy to feel free to pause the audio and get back when you are ready. I invite you to get comfortable. Closing your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths. Allow yourself to make noises every time you exhale. And liver attention through it. Notice how good it feels, how much camera you are. Briefing, setup, our full self-care activity. That anytime, anywhere, We will get immediate benefits. Just take another deep breath with me. Now, I want you to focus on your day today and reflect about what activities make you feel great. Choose one, and connect with how you feel when you do it. Experience what you normally experience. Visualize yourself in that moment in doing that activity. What are you what are you doing? How are you feeling? Notice your body. Do you feel any tension? Do you feel calmer and more relaxed? Now, move into another activity that makes you feel Well. What are you doing now? What are you? How are you feeling? Notice your body. Do you feel joy? Where do you feel that? Do you feel relaxation? Wet in your body? Do you feel that connect with that specific moment and relief that experience? Soaking all the joy, happiness, cabinets, coziness, and any other good feelings that you may be experiencing. You, yes, did what's called visualisation. Visualisation allows you to connect with past experiences and connect emotionally with them. You just went to past experiences. And you can also visualize future experience. Increases. Let's give it a try. Keeping your eyes closed. Think about something you would like to do. Something you know, it may make you feel great. Maybe it's something that you have already done before. Maybe something completely new to you that you have never experienced before. Breathe deeply and visualize yourself in the future doing that specific activity. What are you? He said warm or cold. He sees bright or dark. You moving or staying still. What are you doing? How are you feeling right now in that future moment? Allow yourself to connect with the feelings that you may experience in that moment. You are doing amazingly. The more you practice this, the more you will be able to visualize and connect with future experiences. You just need to have visualization into the future. Great work. Now, I want you to open your eyes and write down in your paper on the top, my self-care list. Below, I want you to write activities that make you feel well. You can break them as bullet points. You can break them inside circles. You can use different colors. There are no rules here. Let your creativity guide you. And please don't be perfectionist. It doesn't have to be perfect. Gas gets started. Simple bullet points are fine. If you're not feeling creative. I will challenge you to bright at least ten self-care activities that you can do anytime to get a self-care boost. Try to make them very, very simple. Some examples could be deep breathing three times, doing a visualization, jumping up and down three times. Taking a walk, drinking water. Looking at yourself in the mirror and telling you nice things. Piece is called mirror work. You mentioned sitting quietly and closing your eyes for a few minutes. This is called meditation. Rephrasing a limiting belief into a powerful belief. Like, I can't do this or I am not good enough into, I am in the process of learning how to do this. I allow myself the time and space to make mistakes, to ask for help, and to learn while having fun. This is an affirmation. As you see, I am introducing some self-care activities that you can try and include them in your self-care toolbox. If you are having challenges finding ten things to break down. He took the fact that you are even trying. He's an amazing first step. Honestly, it is. I went to invite you to close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths. Now I want you to think about all the things that you are grateful for. Start listing them in your mind. I am grateful for being alive. I am grateful for having a roof over my head. I am grateful to live in a safe country. I am grateful to have running water. I am grateful to have a cozy bed. I am grateful to have family and friends can love and support me. I am grateful to have the time to take this course and learn. Keep going for as long as you can connect with the feeling that you experience. When you say these things. I am feeling like crying a little letter right now because I am so grateful to unhappy to have all the things I just listed. I am sure you are feeling the same. If you are not, that's okay. The more you practice, the more connected you will be. This practice is called gratefulness. It is proven that you can only focus on one emotion at the time. If you are feeling grateful, you cannot feel upset at the same time. If you do this exercise, when you notice yourself feeling a negative emotion, you will most likely change your state immediately. If you are doing this process with someone else and you start feeling upset with each other. You can apply gratefulness in the form of praise. Allow each other to do a full minute of praise of things you love about a personal. It can go something like this. I love seeing you trying so hard to support me. I loved when you show your feelings as they are, even if I don't like them. I love you making my morning coffee. I love you. Give me space. When I am upset. I love how you hack me. When I don't feel well. I love your willingness to create a home for our family. How would you feel if someone spent two full minutes listing all the things they like about you? How would you feel if you spend two full minute praising the other petal? Wherever you pressing yourself for. In minutes. You can even do this in front of a mirror. Why do you look at yourself? This is called mirror work. I am loving this session so much. If these activities sound good to you, please include them in your self-care list. At least give them a try. Be curious, and be open-minded to just give them a try, please. Anytime you face a strong emotion, It's normal to feel overwhelmed. Feeling overwhelmed means that you are close to having a breakthrough. You are becoming aware of something you want to change, but you don't quite know how to do it yet. You are facing a limiting belief that no longer serve you. And it's time to let it go and create a new one. You have to let go of the familiar of your comfort zone, of the certainty of the things you know, to open space for the new things that you need in your life. This is very uncertain and scary. This is why you may feel anxious or afraid of failing, overwhelmed, not knowing what to do. He took and each normal. Sometimes we need to learn how to be comfortable. Being uncomfortable. It's a transition that needs to happen. And you need to learn how to stand moving forward in a different way. The practice I strongly recommend when you are transitioning are filling this discomfort. Is meditation. Yes. Allowing yourself a few minutes of quiet time can make a huge difference. You can just be present and let your emotions out in a healthy way. Watch them, observe them, and let go of the need of reacting to them. You would open yourself up for insights and lots of aha moments. Let's give it a try. Please close your eyes, get comfortable. Take a couple of deep breaths. Relax your body. I'm be present. Think about that transition that is happening right now in your life. That makes you feel discomfort. Think about it and observe what's coming up. Let the emotion surface and just let them be there. You don't need to do anything with them right now. Observe them. Question them. Why are they showing up? What can I learn from them? What is the belief that is creating this emotion? When did I start filling this wave first? Who told me something or what was the circumstance that made me create this belief about myself? This belief true? Is this belief serving me in a positive way? Now, an example of this could be the problem. I have a clutter home limiting belief that credit the problem. I am not good enough to the credit my home. New empowering beliefs. I am in the process of learning how to declare it in my home and create my sacred space. Anytime you do this practice, you will get more awareness. You can do a meditation yet to be quiet with no intention. You could do a meditation about the specific question. You could do a meditation about specific event that happened to you. There are no rules. You can also do an active meditation. Why do you walk, exercise, drive, etc. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn the step-by-step method to the credit and organize any space in your home, you are ready to take action. Until then. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 11. An Aligned Method to Start Your Decluttering Journey: Welcome back to day ten. Thank you so much for being here. In the last session, you learned how to create your own self-care list and how to use self-care practices to cope with emotions that may show up during your decluttering process. Today, we're diving into step number two, taking action. I want to remind you of the three main steps that you are learning in this course. Step one is awareness, step to taking action. And step three, it's maintenance and Rachel's. Once you have Kennedy and create intentions for your new reality, you are then ready to create the home that will support you and your new lifestyle. It's time for you to learn the specific steps that you can take to make your cat a free home. Our reality, are you ready? Taking action involves two main steps, the catering and organizing your space. The criterion is all about assessing what you currently have, certain it into categories, deciding what stays and what goes on giving your unwanted items or new life. Organizing is all about creating permanent homes for all the things that you are keeping so that they are accessible and convenient. It's very important to declare first, then organize what you really need. It doesn't make sense to organize things that no longer serve you. I see many people making the mistake of getting started organizing the space without becoming aware and without the category. And first, I am sure by now, you can tell that they were not successful. Deciding what stays and what goes should be easier after doing all the awareness in all the previous sessions. By now, you have a clear picture of what you want your life to look like and feel like. You have cardiac about the activities that you want to do. You know how you want to use your space. And you have included all others in the process if necessary. If you don't have clarity about what you want yet, it's okay to the credit what you know, you don't want and create space for what's to come. Sometimes the actual process of decluttering and opening up space and energy can help you figure out what's next for you. It's very powerful to be able to start and finish one space for you to experience a functional and inviting space. These will empower you to keep going with other areas. What space to choose? First, I want to share some questions that will make you think and reflect. Pay attention at how you feel. When I read each question and you may find your answer. What is your first priority? Why? What space can you benefit the most from? What space is going to bring you the most? What space is causing you the most frustration? What space may be the easiest to complete? Do you feel emotional when thinking of this space? After hearing these questions, how do you feel? Which one spot something on you? There are different entry points to getting started decluttering your home. Honestly, it doesn't really matter where you get started. The most important part is to start and finish wherever space do choose. From my own experience, I will recommend that you get started with this space. Where do you spend the most time in this space that is frustrating you the most, or the space that you can benefit the most from. For some, that space is a kitten. For others is the bedroom. For others is the home office. And for others, maybe they garage. I also recommend avoiding getting started with a space that trigger you emotionally. For example, if a family member passes away and you have still close and other belongings from this person in a room of your home and you are still grieving the loss, then I will recommend that you get started somewhere else. If you love books and books are causing credit in your life, maybe I will get started doing something else and live books until the end. It's better to get started in a space that you can finish easily. The catering staff that is not emotional for you. And get a quick win with a nice visual impact so that you can motivate it to keep going. There is no right or wrong answer. This decision may depend on your specific situation. If you are still unsure on where to get started, please share your specific situation in the course classroom. And I will do my best to support you and give you my honest opinion. You are not alone in this. Remember that you can do the visualization meditation in this specific space to help you gain for the clarity. Once you have decided on what space to tackle first. I recommend that you have a general look and Azure self, what's in here? What categories can see? Maybe you see papers, books, tools, close, crafts. You said anything that you can let go off. You say anything that may belong in a different room. Now is the time to have your intentions and you're describing your ideal space exercise in front of you to remind yourself of what you wanted and why. You will be able to make more confident decisions when you have commodity and are looking forward to an exciting outcome. If you are feeling strong emotions when looking at your staff, gas allow yourself to take a few deep breaths. Use some of their self-care techniques that you learn to ground yourself and count your mind. It's normal to have strong emotions appear at any time. Remind yourself that you are in the process of creating change. And it's okay to feel emotions. The space fields too much for you right now. I will encourage you to maybe get started somewhere else and come back here after. It's a good idea to take before photos and videos of your space so that you can always remember how it looked like. Make sure that you have in both others who may use the space with you in the process. Schedule enough time, I make sure to take breaks and celebrate every step of the way. Every liter stable if the way make sure that you celebrate. If you are storing stuff for someone else or you have things that you know for sure no longer need, especially big pieces of furniture, equipment, etc. I will recommend you make arrangements before you're the category and session to let them go. Especially if you don't have a lot of space. If you do have space in your garage or basement or another room that you don't need. Make sure you move them there temporarily until they are gone. Make sure you set a deadline for others to pick up their things. When you are ready to start your decluttering process. I recommend you create a station with different banks or boxes for donation. Recycling. Garbage. Shredding belongs in other space to give to someone and to sell. These will help you be more efficient. I also use a folding table to work on. You can use a table you may have or your counter. I find that working on a table helps you be more comfortable and helps you focus on the staff on the table or lead rather than stating a dimension all around you. I also recommend keeping a to-do list of every task that will come up while going through your belongings. For example, take this thing to my sisters, give these toy to my nephew, fix this broken table, etc. Keeping our to-do list will help you capture everything you need to do and will help you declare your mind. It will also help you let go with more confidence. Once you start seeing how much we are writing down and how much time every task will take to complete. The first step in the decoding process is to sort, put things like together, close with close books, with books, tools, with tools, etc. Having things together can help you make more confident decision. For example, if you find a pair of scissors, you may be hesitant about keeping them or letting them go. But if you call it all the z-scores and you happen to have six pairs, you can then decide that you only need to patch. You can let go of the rest with confidence. If volume is high, maybe you can use other spaces to do the sorting. Like corridors, rooms, living room. You can use a piece of masking tape and write down the name if that helps you. You can also put things are medium-size boxes, labeled them and stack them nicely in a corner. This will allow you to optimize your vertical space and open up room to work in. I recommend you do a wave in your room, pick a starting point, and then do a 360 degree wave, touching everything in this space. If you encounter items, you'll fill out, that means to set them aside and come back to them once you finish the rest, don't get stuck with items that you are unsure of. Instead, keep moving forward, deciding about belongings that you feel confident with. Papers, books, and photos together until with them, once the physical spaces organize. Once you have everything sorted, it's time to make decisions of what stays and what are you letting go off. Keeping in mind the balance between how much space you have and how many things you are keeping. If you have more stuff than space, then you would have a problem keeping in mind your vision and the activities that you are planning on doing when deciding. It normally gets messier before it gets better. Don't panic. Things will look messier during the process, allowing time to clean up and place things where they belong. At the end of this session is very important. Keep aside any organizing products that you may find until the end of the process. You may be able to use them. During the organizing process. Paper, dealing with paper can take a very long time and you will see immediate results. I recommend putting all the papers together and deal with them in a future session. You will learn how to deal with papers in this course. If possible, move out of the space. You are decluttering all the unwanted items plus any garbage and recycling and items that belong in a different space. There are many different ways to give you an unwanted items and new life, like donating them, selling them, assignment, etc. You will learn all about it in a future session of this course. Once you are done with a decluttering process, It's tend to organize the things that you are keeping. These are the steps that I normally follow when organizing. Make sure that all the items that belong in this space that needs to be organized are there. Try to picture how you are going to use a space, what activities you are planning on doing, what items you will use more often. Make sure you place items where everybody using them can access them easily. For example, placing items between kids rich, placing heavy objects lower, etcetera. Try to set up stations. Every activity will require specific items and equipment. Tried to group them together. Thing like in the garden. Make it easy to put things back when you are done using them. Every item needs to have a permanent home. When you are done using the item, Do you know where to place it? Using the space should also know where you put the item back. This is a very important step to avoid clutter. Try to make work, but you are ready on if possible, to all the items fit in your space. Sometimes they space is not big enough to fit everything. Be realistic. If you have more things and space to store them, then you need to reassess your situation. Can you optimize or create new storage space? Can you use more of your vertical space? Can you add extra Shelves? Remember, you are looking for functionality and joy. If space is too crowded and items or difficult to access, most likely you won't enjoy using it. And credit will come back to your space quickly. If you require additional organizing or storage solutions, make sure to measure your space. Measure what you need to store first. Measuring is the only way to find the perfect fit for your needs. Personal touches to make your spacing biting, display items that will bring you joy. Test the end result and don't be shy to tweak it. If anything, that's I'm worked perfectly for you. It may take a few tweaks to consider your product finished. I hope this session gives you a clear step-by-step method that you can follow to create your credit free hormone. We will dive into specific spaces of your home in future sessions. I would love to superview further. So please share the questions you may have. Don't be shy to share details about your specific situation. I promise I will answer you with another response. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to discover other methods, cough organization by different experts. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 12. Discovering Different Methods of Organization: Welcome back to day 11. Thank you for being here. In the last session, Julian, how to the grantor and organize your home. Today I want to share different methods of organization from Marie Kondo unduly Morgan Stan, will help you understand that deep down, they all follow the same steps. Yes, using different words and different approaches. Becoming out of these methods may help you have some aha moments and understand better the structure to follow. Let's start with Uli Morgan Austin. In her book, shed, your staff change your life. Julie shares her shed process. Step one is separate thresholds. Slow down to understand the emotional attachment that you have to the grader. Then identify an Earth, the items and obligations that energize you and have true value for the next chapter of your life. Step two is heap the trash. Once you have selected the items worth saving, completely, relinquish that, which represents the past by letting go of everything that these no longer relevant. This includes a radical release of any activity, an object that depletes you, rather than energizes you, create a large opening of time and energy. Step three is embrace your identity. Recognize that you are who you are without your staff. This is your opportunity to reconnect to your most authentic self and pull your identity from between. Step four is drive yourself forward. Begin to fill your space and sketch or with activities, experiences, and items related to your theme for the future. The first steps of shared enable you to manage your way through change consciously so that your transition is mindful, complete, and rewarding. Staff should help you move forward with your goals are not anchored you down. Finding the credit in your life is apart of the first step. Duly defines clutter as any obsolete object, space, commitment, or behavior that weighs you down. These trucks you or deplete your energy. In her book, organizing from the inside out, Julie shares. Organizing is not about how the space looks, but how it functions. Organizing is about discovering what's important and giving yourself access to it. This book describes the clutter can be a result of homeless items and tasks. Inconvenient, store it overly complex systems, more stuff done space, the out of sight, out of mind mindset, disorganized family, fear of losing individuality. Believe that organizing is boring. Sentimental attachment, unclear, goals and priorities, lack of confidence, more tasks than time. Satisfying activity. There are three steps to success. Analyze, strategize an attack. In the analyzed space. You will be looking at what's holding you back. Like living with this organized person or any psychological obstacles that you are facing. What's working and what's not. What items are most essential to you. Why do you want to get organized? What's causing the problems? During the strategy step, you will estimate how much time this transformation is going to take you. You will follow the kindergarten model, basically creating stations for every activity that you want to do. Creating stations for all the different things that you want to store in your space. For example, you can have a reading station, you can have a painting station, you can have an exercise station, etc.. In the attack space shift follows the space formula. This base formula stands for sort. And let go. Assign a home, containerize and equalize. That means maintain and tweak. The other method I would like to share with you is the QALMRI method by Marie Kondo. Marie Kondo says that our dramatic reorganization of your home will cause dramatic changes in lifestyle and perspective. It is life transforming. She says that the root of the problem lies in the mind. Success is 90% dependent on your mindset. Their conclusion is that when you put your house in order, you put your first and your path in order to the secret of success, according to Marie Kondo. Is to start by discarding. Then organize your space throughly completely. In one goal, you will get a new start on life. You cannot tidy if you never learn how. Marie Kondo believes that the ability to tidy requires training and it's not something that we acquired through experience. Food, clothing, and shelter are the most basic human needs. So having a home where we feel comfortable is as important as what we eat and what we were. Before you start. Visualize your destination. What is the goal? What was it that motivated you to tie the interface place? What do you hope to gain through tidying? Before you start getting rid of things? Take the time to think this through carefully. This means visualizing the idea lifestyle, do you dream of? Be specific, I think in concrete terms so that you can vividly picture what it will be like to live in a krater free-space. Your next step is to identify why. Why do you want to live like that? The whole point of both discarding and keeping things is to be happy. Before you start tiling, look at the lifestyle you aspire to and ask yourself, why do I want to tidy? When you find the answer, you are ready to move on to the next step, examining what you own. Do it in one shot. Marie Kondo encourages you to tidy in one short. Rather than doing it little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset, your emotions, your way of thinking, and your lifestyle. Habit. Tiling is a special event. Don't do it every day. The work of tidying should be completed once and for all within a single period of time. From Marissa experience with private individuals quickly means about half a year. Aiming for perfection. Marie recommends aiming for perfection, yes, once the working world can be broadly divided into two kinds, deciding whether or not to dispose of something, deciding where to put it. If you can do these two things, you can achieve perfection. Objects can be counted. All you need to do is look at it item one at a time and decide whether or not to keep it and decide where to put it. It's not hard to tightly perfectly and completely in one fell swoop. In fact, anyone can do it. And if you want to avoid rebound, this is the only way to do it. Resetting your life. Mary says that when you are homies and credit, you have no choice but to examine your inner state. You are forced to deal with issues because you can see them. There are no more physical distractions. When you start tithing, you will be compared to reset your life, and as a result, your life will start to change. Tithing is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to create the lifestyle that you want most. Once your house has been put in order. Sort by category, not by location. Mary says that tidying up by location is a fatal mistake. When we take the each play separately, we felt to see that we are repeating the same work in many locations and become locked into a vicious circle of tithing. To avoid this, she recommends tidying by category. One reason so many of us never succeed at tithing is that we have too much stuff. This excess is caused by our ignorance of how much we actually own. When we disperse storage of a particular item throughout the house and tidy one place at a time. We can never grabs the overall volume and therefore can never finish. To skip this negative spiral. Tidy by category, note by place. Tidy in the right order. Do not even think of putting your things away until you have finished the process of discarding. That's its spark. We should be choosing what we want to keep. Nowhere we want to get rid off. Take each item in one's hand and ask, thus the Spark URI if it does keep it. If not, dispose of it. Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plants and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle. How to help all the styling. Start with yourself first. According to Marie Kondo, the best way to help other study is to stack quietly working away at disposing of your own excess. You can leave the colonial spaces to the n. The first step is to confront your own stuff. It may sound incredible, but when someone starts tidying, it sets off a chain reaction. One category at a time. Always think in terms of category, not place. Dealing with just one category within a single timeframe speeds up the tiding process. Gathering every item in one place is essential to this process because it gives you an accurate grasp of how much you have. You can also compare items that are similar, making it easier to decide whether you want to keep them. The process of deciding what to keep and what to this car will go much more smoothly if you begin with items that are easier to make decisions about. The best sequence according to the QALMRI method is close. Books, papers, miscellany, momentous, about gifts. They are an expression of love and consideration. Press ends are not things but a means for conveying someone's feelings. Most of these gifts remain an open or having used only once. Admitted, they simply don't suit your taste. The true purpose of a gift is to be received. You don't need to feel guilty for partying with a gift. Yes. Thank you. For the US gave you when you first received it, the person who gave it to you. That's I'm wanting you to use it out of a sense of obligation or to put it away without using it, only to feel guilty every time you see it. When you discard or donate it, you do so for the sake of the gibbons, to finding a home for every item, the reason every item must have a designated place is that the existence of an item without a home multiplies the chances that your space will become cluttered. Again without a designated spot. What are you going to put things when you finish using them? The secret to maintaining an incredible room is to pursue ultimate simplicity in a store it so that you can tell ADA grams how much you have store or items of the same type in the same place. And don't scatter storage space. There are only two ways of categorizing belongings by time of item and by Persian. If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member. If storage places are spread around, the entire house will become credit in no time. To concentrate the belongings of its person in one spot is the most effective way for keeping storage tidy. Having your own space makes you happy. Once you feel that it belongs to you personally, you want to keep it tidy rather than buying something to make do for now, wait until you have completed the entire process and then take your time looking for storage items that you really like. I hope this session gave you some extra ideas on how to declare that and organize your home. I would love to hear your main takeaway from this session in the course classroom. I love reading from you. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we're going to learn strategies to deal with emotional items, momentous, and inheritances. Until then, I hope you have animating rest of your day. In. 13. Emotional Items, Mementos & Inheritances: Welcome back to day 12. Thank you for being here. In the last session, Julian, two methods to help you the credit and organize your home by Julie Morgenstern and Marie Kondo. Today we're going to explore the deep connection between you and your belongings. There is a very deep physical, emotional, and energetic connection with all the things that surround you in your home. Especially items that are emotional, like mementos and inheritances from loved ones. Your mood and mental health can be very affected by your belongings. Understanding this relationship can help you the credit and organize your spaces with more confidence and create a home environment that supports the person that you want to become. One of the things that people encounter when they go through the decluttering process is that they have a really hard time letting go of things, especially if they have sentimental attachments to them. That's why I wanted to share with you two of questions to ask when letting go off emotional items. I invite you to get comfortable. Close your eyes if you can. Take a couple of deep breaths. Now, I want you to think about an emotional item that you have a hard time letting go, even if you know that this item is no longer serving you the new lifestyle that you want to have. Corner with the emotions that arise in you when confronting this item. What are you feeling? Maybe you feel sadness because this item belongs to a loved one. And letting this item go feels like you are letting go of the patient who loved and all of the memories attached to it. Maybe you feel it because you spend money in that item and you didn't use it. Maybe someone gave you this item as a gift and it feels wrong to let it go. You may upset the person who lifted that item to you. Whatever emotions and feelings arise, please let them be observe them, understand why they are showing up and the beliefs that are behind him. Question them with curiosity and an open mind. Remember that you don't have to let this item go if you like. If you want it. If you have space for it. Now, I'm going to share with you to ask questions, to help you let go of emotional items. Listen carefully to every question and observed how you feel and how your body reacts to each one. Focus your attention in a specific item that you are having a hard time letting go, even though you know it no longer serve you. And deep inside you don't want it. These are the questions. Do I need it? Gets one. It does this item match my goals? Do I went to create a home for it? Is it easy to find another one? Can manage without it? Do I love it? The time I'm stood at cost worth it? Might keeping it because of guilt. He said anyone who may need it. We'll a picture of it, not meet my need for it. Keeping it to avoid something emotional. Do I have more than 1 fifth? Answering these questions will make their decision making so much easier and faster. If a strong emotion show up after a specific question, take some time to think about it. And become aware of why that emotion is there. Mementos is another category that many, half a hard time partying with. Many times people collect a lot of momentum and they don't want to keep so many, but they can't let them go. Some other ideas on how to deal with mementos, our hash yourself. The same questions we just did and see how you react. Create a healthy limit on how much space you are willing to dedicate to store my mentor, and then prioritize what you are keeping in that space. If you really loved him, maybe you should try to display as many as you can so that you can see them regularly. This is the best way to honor that Memento. If you don't have enough space to display them all at once. You can display some now and rotate them every few weeks or months. You can do the same idea with art and pictures too. Another emotional category that many phase inherited items from loaf ones. I have worked with many people who had a huge credit problem due to a big inheritance. They received a big volume of staff coming from parents that downsize and didn't want to let go of their belongings. Now the children are having to store them, deal with them, and feel guilty about any decision they may make. My ideas to deal with inheritance in a healthy way. Our be proactive and talk about inheritance plants before a crisis occur. Clear communication between parents and children to decide who is interested in their things. Parents can ask the children and decide who keeps what. That can be an ongoing document that he shared with all the family members interested. You can also use masking tape with the name of the person interested and putting it on the specific item. You can include a specific instructions in there. We'll too, if you're not interested in anything, let them know and invite him to do all their arrangement. They could hold an auction, sell the items, consign them, or donate them. Many times the parents have unrealistic expectations about their belongings. They loved them, and they feel they are worth way more than they actually are. They may pressure the children to keep these things in the family polite and respectful. No. Maybe necessary in order to avoid a huge credit problem coming your way. You may encounter emotional items at anytime During your decluttering journey. It's normal. I hope this session gives you some tools and strategies to help you deal with these emotional items. If you have a specific question about your own situation, please don't hesitate to share it in the course classroom. And I will try my best to support you. If you want a copy of the 12 questions, please let me know. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to give you an unwanted items or new life. Until then, I hope you have animation rest of your day. 14. Giving Your Unwanted Items A New Life: Welcome back to day 13. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you lend strategies to deal with emotional items. While doing your decluttering journey, you will be facing a lot of unwanted items that no longer serve you. Finding sustainable ways to give those items and your life will help you let them go with more confidence and gratefulness. In this session, you will learn all the options available to give your unwanted items at the sheriff new life. Every time I have worked with someone helping them declare their spaces, they are shocked at the end of the process on how much staff no longer serves them and how much open space they have. Now, many were planning a big renovation or adding an addition to their homes because they believed they needed more space. They were glad they declutter first, I'm saved lots of money and headaches. There are several ways to give you an unwanted items and new life. Please don't throw them in the garbage unless they are sorted items, broken items, recycling an actual garbage. Anything that can be used by someone else, a new life. Remember the say, one month trash is another man's treasure. Also, many have an easier time letting things go when they know that someone else will benefit from them and love them. Again. When deciding the best way to let your unwanted items go, you need to be aware of how much time you are willing to dedicate to the process. Especially when you are planning on selling the items. How much space you are willing to dedicate to temporarily store these items. Clarity about if any family members, friends, neighbors may want some of your things, transportation to get the items to their final destination. It's actually a great idea to think about how to dispose of your unwanted items before getting started decluttering. This way you can arrange all the details like communicate with people previously who may be interested so that they can come and pick the items app. Research donation places in your area that may accept your items to some research online to see if you write hymns are valuable enough to sell them. Talk to auction companies who may come to your home and hold an in-home auction, send photos to consignment stores in your area to see if they may be interested in containing any of your items. Snapping a photo of these items and posting them for free online for someone to come and pick them up, etc. If you foresee having a lot of things leaving your space, it's a great idea to start this process as soon as you can, so that you can have all these items gone before you actually tackle your space. In my case, when I worked with people in their homes one-on-one, I always ask if they have a lot of things for donation. And I asked him to send me photos of the spaces. This way I can come prepare to this session with a trailer or even a big truck to be able to hold away all the donations. At the end of this session. I will make sure to contact in advance the local thrift stores to make sure that they can accept the donations. Being able to move all the unwanted items out of the space, we are decluttering and organizing allows us to be able to finish completely the space. We didn't do this. We will be left with a big pile of donations that may be taking a lot of space in my client's home. This step of the process is the difference between allowing my client to have a fresh start with a rewarding visual impact versus leaving them overwhelm staring at the pile of donations and they have to deal with. When you are assessing your spaces. Make sure you take what you are learning in this session into account. And start exploring what will be best to give you an unwanted items or new life. These are some of the ways you can give your items and new life. Number one, donation. This is the easiest way. You don't have to spend a lot of time. You don't have to store unwanted items anymore and someone is going to love them again. I recommend you explore the options in your community that will accept donations. Some thrift stores in our community, for example, half a truck and are able to come and pick things up. You may have the same option in your area. This way, you save yourself the trip to giving them to family or friends. It's very rewarding to see a person we love and care about enjoying the things we no longer need. Asked them if they are interested in your unwanted items, and if they are, ask them to come and pick them up as soon as possible, please don't be offended if they are not interested. And don't try to force anyone to take things just because you feel they are a good fit for them. Their decision. Three, private, seldom. If you want to get some cash back for your unwanted items, you can sell them online. There are many different places and they may change depending on where you live. In my case, I have seen people having good luck using Facebook marketplace, GGG, eBay, Craigslist. It's important to do a quick search of your item and see if they're actually in demand and how much other people are selling them for. Make sure you include specific information and measurements. The better you are at the sooner it may sell. Be aware that private setting things involve your time taking photos, doing research, writing the ad, posting the ad, replying to emails, inviting people to your home to see the items and hopefully picking them up. You also need to store the items until you sell them. For many of my clients, this option is overwhelming and they will only do this with items that are worth a lot. It is your personal choice. For oxygen. You can auction your items. Auctions are a good way to dispose off a huge volume of items in a short amount of time. Be aware that you don't know how much you will get for your things. If you have expectations, you better sell them privately and half full control of the price. There are two kinds of auctions. Auctions that happen in a store and oxygen that happened online. Once that happen in a store, you need to drop the items off there and they will catalog them, photograph them, and post them, or hold a live auction. You will get a percentage of the final price. Make sure you ask for the fee structure that you understand how it works. Another option that is very popular is in-home auction. This option is a great way to allow people who are downsizing and half an entire home full of things to let them all go fast and get some cashback. These kind of auctions are very convenient fast, and they don't require much work from your side. Again, don't have expectations about how much you will get because you won't know until the end. This option is great for those who have a deadline and need the home empty by then, it's convenient. All your unwanted items will be passed into someone who we love them again, and you will get a check. At the end of the process. The auction company will come to your home, catalog, everything, photograph everything, then post it online to the audience for one or two weeks. And then they will facilitate normally one day for viewing and another day for picking the items app. If you are interested in the auction, then explore what's available in your area by doing a quick search or asking around five consignment. Consignment is another option that may exist in your community. Consignment store may accept some of your items and sell them for you. Once they sell, you will get a percentage of the cell. Consignment requires you to send him a photo to make sure they will be interested in the item, then drop the item at the store. Sometimes they may offer pickup for a fee. From my experience, consignment can be good for high-value selected items. Six, posting them for free or line. Another great option that will save you time and transportation is to post them for free and have someone interested come and get them. You can post them in any buy and sell platform. In my case, I post things on Facebook marketplace and TGG for free. There is also a grid worldwide online community called free cycle.org. Free cycle.org, F, E, c, y dot o, r g, where you can post items you want or items you are giving away. An audit may respond. I have used it several times in New Zealand and Canada, We success. Seven, hosting a garage sale. Another way to let your unwanted items go is to host a grassy hill. Basically, YouTube's a day. You post your current sales online if possible. And then you have to set everything up so that people can see what you have. And hopefully by some of your stuff. From my own experience, garage sales take a lot of time and space. You normally won't be able to sell everything you have. Also people normally don't pay a lot for your things and you may be offended by their offers. Garage sales are fun if you approach it from the opportunity to be outside. People, involved, friends, neighbors, children in the process. I hope this session gives you some insights and practical steps to follow to be able to give your unwanted items or new deserved life. If you want my professional opinion on what option to choose, please share your specific situation in the course instruction. I will share my thoughts on what I think may work best for you. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to give and receive gifts with intention. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 15. Giving & Receiving Gifts With Intention: Hello, Welcome back to day 14. Thank you for being here in the last session, Julian, ways to give you an unwanted items and new life. Today I will share ideas for giving gifts that are in things I'm conversations to have with your loved ones around healthy gift exchange. Gift exchange is one of the main sources of credit coming into your home, especially during Christmas and birthday parties. I have witnessed so many times how someone made a lot of progress, decluttering their homes, finding homes for everything, and especially creating systems for the children to keep toys and books under control. Then Christmas time came and they were flooded with staff to the point that they were overwhelmed. Again, staring at a pile of new toys, books, and other gifts that don't have a home. Now they have to start the process of the cratering. Again. Normally these items are going to be emotional because they were recent gifts from loved ones. This is why it's so important to communicate what you are doing with your loved ones. You need to share how hard you are working to declare your home and keep it that way. You need to share how important it is for you and your overall mental health. Giving and receiving gifts, especially physical gifts, have an impact on you and your home. The more you receive, the bigger the impact it has in your life. The same thing applies when you are giving gifts to others. I want to share with you a section about gifts included in the book, the life-changing magic of typing up by Marie Kondo. It says, gifts are an expression of love and consideration. Presence are not things but a means for conveying someone's feelings. Most of these cliffs remain an opened or having used only once admitted. They simply don't suit your taste. The true purpose of a gift is to be received. You don't need to feel guilty for partying with a gift guest. Thank you for the job it gave you when you first received it. The person who gave it to you doesn't want you to use it out of a sense of obligation or to put it away without using it, only to feel guilty every time you see it. When do you discard or donate it? You do so for the sake of the giver to How did you feel after listening to these ideas about gifts? Did you feel triggered, relieved, inspired, frustrated. I truly believe that the greatest gift you can give anyone is your time and your presence. But it can be challenging to try a new tradition or as someone else to stop giving material gifts. Don't worry, there are a lot of different options available to try giving something different. I went to share some ideas for you to explore. Please listen to them with curiosity and an open-mind. Great ideas for giving experiences. It's one of a bench like concerts, sports events, movies, theater, local fund research or annual festivals. Memberships, local programs like the symphony museums, game or rock climbing, crabs, swimming pools, interests group crabs that required a membership fee, etc. Gifts certificate. This can apply to just about any business or service as your friend or family member, what they would really like to do, but maybe would never buy themselves. Examples are a massage, a poetry class, home brewing class, guitar lessons, etc. The options here can be endless. Gear membership to online learning. You can give them access to Insight Timer and encourage them to explore courses. You can also explore all their online education platforms, like you can pay for the year. And they can enjoy learning. You can also explore other online In platforms. You can pay for the year and they can enjoy learning their great ideas for giving to keep occasions or trips. If you have the ability to contribute to a summer camp or March break holiday, this could have lifelong positive impacts. You can keep the excitement going with his cave by continually asking about what they will do and see while they are away. Local adventure map. Use your creative side and design a trip around the neighborhood. Use your research skills to find the interesting things in the area. And maybe even drew up a map. Not only is this a unique experience. If you can share it together. And who knows what you will find, sound heart, then try yield, caching. A new hobby. Explore a new skill set by exploring different activities. There's something that has pique their interests before. Examples cookie from different cultures. Learning how to horseback ride or maybe getting their maker on. Once a MOT certificate, set aside time once a month to spend with your recipient. You can use this time, a meal, go for a walk, what a movie, or play a game. They will feel absolutely phenomenal knowing that each month they have something fun to look forward to. Great ideas for giving time. Dinner party, try hosting a dinner in hostile potluck, hostname, query competition or a pastor competition. For these always a great gift that we are loved. And it can be shared and enjoyed together. Walk or height. We can often take for granted that maintain tread in the city or backcountry trail. Sketch our time in your calendar with your friends or family to make it happen. Exercise will never feel Gas time till your recipient that you are all There's guess scheduled time in your calendar with no plants, whatever, other than to spend that time with your friends or family. Maybe you can help them work through a tough decision coming up or help them prepare meals for the freezer. Whatever they decide you will feel great having spent time together. I hope these ideas as fact, some excitement in you. I will invite you to think about this specific better. Figure out what they like, what they are interested in. Even ask them if necessary. And then you will be able to make a more informed decision. Remember that gifts half an impact. And it is very important for you to understand the impact that can have in someone else. So whether you are giving a gift or receiving a gift, always think about the impact that that gift will have your home. In someone else's home? Do you give gifts? Often? What kind of gifts to you normally give? Have you ever thought of the impact that those gifts can have in the person who is received him. Have you ever thought about the situation of that specific person in their home? Do they have greater are they working through the clutter in their homes? Person working through the clutter in their home. Have you had are known as conversation about gifts. Do you normally receive gifts from all others? How do you feel when you receive a gift? Do you feel that you are keeping those gifts out of obligation? Would you like to stop receiving them? But you just can't have an honest conversation with a person. Would you like to receive different kinds of gifts? Now? I would like you to close your eyes if you can get comfortable. Take a couple of deep breaths. Think about the relationship that you have with giving and receiving gifts. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you. In the next session. You are going to learn how to beautify and cleanse your sacred space. Then I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 16. Beautifying & Cleansing Your Sacred Space: Welcome back to day 15. Thank you for being here. You are halfway into the course. In the last session, Julian, healthy ways to give and receive gifts. Once you have the cutter and organize your space, it's time to beautified by displaying items that you love, by painting in colors that inspire you. By adding plants. It's time to make the space, your space. It's time to have fun in creating a space that suits your personality and your style. This is by far the most fun stuff for many. When you were visualizing your ideal space, I am sure you were seeing colors, shapes, ornaments that make you feel well. Plants that you love looking at, forests that remind you of fun memories. My mentors from your past that brings you joy. I'm make you feel proud of yourself and your accomplishments, etc. This step is only possible when you have been able to the credit and organize your belongings. When looking at a space, you have to be aware of how the space functions and how the space looks and feels like. Once you have a spacer functions well, you don't have credit. Everything has a home, and you can do the activities that you love in it. It's time to then focus on how the space looks and feels like. Beautifying and class in your space is something that you can do anytime you feel you need to refresh the energy of that space by just changing things around like the furniture layout, maybe painting the worst in a different color. Changing the decor, rotating the art on the walls, changing your family photos, adding a plant, you can make a huge impact on that space and how you feel when you are spending time in it. Remember that beautifying and cleansing a space that is shared with others requires communication and compromise. Setting healthy boundaries and finding the happy balance can make this process fund. For example, I worked with a client and she and her partner have a shared office space in their big living room. The compromise for them was to keep the shared couch and table area, new trial with things that they liked. Then they divided the other half of the room into areas with one desk on each area and a very defined boundary. Each of them go to decorate and display what they loved in there half. They both said the intention together for the new space by saying, our intention is to cleanse negative energy from the space that we can be focused and productive. They did burn a little bit of palo santo and let the smoke do its magic in class in the energy of this space. As you see, this is just one example of how this couple was able to beautify and cleanse their space together. It may look different for you. Guess, make sure you have clear communication with others. You reach a common decision that feels good for all parties involved. Setting the intentions for the new space together and doing a little cinnamony can help set the new energy in that space. If you are facing a complicated situation and needs some support, please share your details in the course classroom and I will share my thoughts and ideas to help you move forward with your situation. Let's do a practice to help you find ways to beautify and cleanse your space. Please get in a comfortable position. Close your eyes if you can. Take a couple of deep breaths. Now, visualize this space that you yes, the crater and organized. If you can visualize how that space used, it looked like before the amazing transformation that you created. Now, if you took a photo, please look at it for a few seconds. Coordinate with your excitement with all the possibilities that lay in front of you. Having this space ready to support you and the new life that you want to. I want you to celebrate this wind. I want you to feel proud of yourself for making this a reality. You did it. You are capable. Allow yourself. It's time to really feel all these positivity towards yourself. Do this. And much, much more. I want you to think about your new intention for the space. You can say that. Allowed. Some examples of new intentions could be my intention is to release any negative energy so that they can feel calm and relaxed. My intention is to release any negative energy from the past so that I can be creative and have fun in the space. Or I went to let go off my old habits and start spending time exploring these new hobby. Make sure you take some time to find an intention that feels good to you. I want you to visualize yourself in the space. Keep in mind your new intention or repeat it to you itself. How do you feel? What's missing for you? How can you make the space feel even more inviting, more aligned with your new intention? What do you need to do to feel better in this space? To increase your motivation, to increase your productivity. To feel calmer, unfocused. What will help you relax? Keep visualizing this space. Move around it, see it. Stand. Go from corner to corner. Imagine the furniture you may have laying out differently. Imagine how it may fairly view at the different colors. Maybe you see a plant in the corner or hanging from the ceiling by the window. Maybe it's time to display some of your mementos that you have stored in a box. Maybe you could rotate the art on the walls. You could change the pictures you have of your friends and family. Let your imagination go wild. Explore any idea that comes to your mind. Visualize it and see how you feel. There is no right or wrong answer here. This is your space. You get to decide what to do with it. You can change things as many times as you like and set new intentions when it feels right to you. When you are ready. Come back to the present moment. Open your eyes. Thank you for allowing yourself time and space. I will invite you to do a ceremony to create the energy of this space. To set your new intention. Some ideas of ceremonies to cleanse your space are burning palo santo, sage, rosemary, or any other hair up, and let the cleansing smoke do its magic. Open the windows, let fresh air come in and visualize new fresh energy, taking away the old stack energy. Play some crystals in your space and let them do its magic, clearing negative energy. Clench your space using salt. You can dissolve sea salt in a spray bottle filled with water, and miss the error of your space. You can dissolve salt in water and use it to clean surfaces and floors. You can also use an Himalayan salt. Give you a space, a fresh scent. You can use essential oils in a diffuser, or you can use a spray bottle with water and 20 to 30 drops of essential oil to miss this space. You can also sit in the room, close your eyes, and visualize clean energy flowing out of you with every Excel and cleansing any negative and stack energy. There is no right or wrong ceremony. Do whatever feels good to you, and do it with intention and positive emotions. You can do this exercise anytime a space filled stagnant. By doing this exercise, you can make your space feel lighter, brighter, and more creative. I would love to hear your experience doing these exercises to beautify and cleanse your space. So please share how it went in the course crashes. You can also share your February ceremony so that we can all learn and get inspired from you. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to embrace your data, live in your home. Until then, I hope you have animated rest of your day. 17. Embracing Your Digital Life In Your Home: Hello, welcome back to Day 16. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you'll learn how to purify and cleanse your space. Today I want to talk about how your data live, connects with your home, and how you can be more intentional and less distracted. Detail devices have become an essential part of our lives. Cell phones, tablets, televisions, computers, laptops, smart home devices? Yes, to name some that are present in many homes. It's important to become aware of how we interact with these devices on a daily basis and how they impact the way we use our spaces in our home. They also impact our habits, routines, the way we feel and the way we interact with others. Every device you have Nita, permanent home, charging station, cables, etc. This is why I felt it was important to include this session in this course to give you practical ideas on how to integrate technology into your home in a Hurley and intentional way. And to help you avoid the creditor and ending up with a box full of keywords, you have no idea what to do. Some call it the spaghetti monster box. You always find one when helping others declutter. Let's do our practice together. I invite you to get comfortable, post the audio if you need to move to a different location. When you are ready, close your eyes if you can. A couple of deep breaths. Now, I want you to do a mentor inventory of all the detail devices that you have in your home. Maybe you have one TB, TVs, 32 b's. Maybe you have a cell phone or to a tablet, a computer on your desk. Maybe you have a laptop, bluetooth speaker, smart home device. Each of these devices, we require a permanent home. Cables to be charged, cables to be connected. Other devices, remote controls, charging station with an outlet. This is the physical impact that these devices have in your home and you have to plan for to avoid credit. Do you have a permanent home for each of your devices? Do they rotate from place to place randomly? Do you have a specific charging station for all your phones and tablets? Do you have a box full of keywords and have no idea what they are for. Now, I want you to think about the emotional impact that these devices have over how you feel and how you interact with him. How do you feel in the presence of each device? You may feel excited, distracted, frustrated. In today. I know it. Overwhelmed. Guest to name song. Guess, explore, whatever is coming up. How do you feel when someone else is using their phones in your presence? Watching TV loudly, hearing sound notifications going on every few seconds. Not be impressing when you talk to them. Youtube, Netflix, social media. Always the easiest choice. Weren't feeling bored or tired. There's more periods around the home that seem to never get done. How much time do you spend on your devices? Every day. Do you take breaks from your devices? How do you feel when you are away from your phone? Do you find it challenging to get asleep without taking your phone before bed? Is your phone the first thing you look at in the morning? Do you keep your phone on your bedside table? Do you find yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of the night when you can't sleep. Do you wish you had more time to pursue hobbies? The credit your home, it more. But are always distracted with notifications, emails, and keeping up with social media. I invite you to really become aware of how you feel around technology and devices. Are there any frustrations? Anything you could change? Test Explorer. I do recommend auditing how much time you spend on your devices and watching a screen. You can allocate your time with a simple pen and paper. You can try on application that we look. How much time you are using. Eccrine and what apps you are using. I also recommend asking yourself the question, what am I doing? Why? Every time you pick a device? This simple question will help you question your usage and avoid mindless scrolling. When I unlock my phone, I see this message on my screen. That reminds me to question myself. It really helps me formed a new habit. It really helps me set the intention. Before I unlocked, before you can set the intention, I am going to get lost in social media for one hour. I'm guessing. This is not about depriving yourself, but creating habits that you enjoy and habits that support you and in your life that you want to create. It's so easy to get sidetracked and distracted into doing something you were not planning for and waste a lot of time. The way you design your spaces in your home and the way you integrate technology can have a huge impact in your overall mental and emotional health. Your habits and routines that you follow. When the crediting and organizing any space. It's very important to take into account your digital life and all the devices that you may need, the use and store in that space. I am going to share now some intentional ways to integrate technology in your home. Feel free to keep your eyes closed if that helps you stay focused. And visualize how these ideas can look like and feel like in your home. Make sure that you observe your reactions and emotions. When I shed every idea and feel free to post the audio if you want to explore why these emotions are showing up for you. Let's get started. Height your television. How our 50 inch flat screen television now sits behind a picture of if we found that the television was always a center of attention in our living room. And we wanted to set up our space without it being a focal point. Now when we went to watch something, we just moved the painting and put it back when we're finished. We also keep the remote inside the cabinet below the TV so that we have to actually get it. It's not sitting by the couch. By adding these extra steps were less and play more. When we decide to watch something, it is more intentional. It's also way nicer to see a beautiful and colorful painting. Rather than staring at a black rectangle. Create a hidden charging station. In our home. Phone gets put away in a cabinet every night in the living room. And they don't come out until the morning. Putting the charging station behind a cabinet door made it easier for us to distance ourselves from mainly scrolling in the avionics and early in the morning. Guess some of you may gasp when thinking about whether or not someone could get a hold of me by phone when nato silent. The truth is, I feel the risk is worth the peace and quiet I get from not having it close at hand. Everyone is different and will have different levels of comfort and different needs. So to something that feels right for you. You can still keep your ringer on, but have your phone put away. All the notifications muted. No fonts in bedroom. And going back to the alarm clock, get their phone had become our everything, including the morning wake-up call to get out of it on time. However, both my wife, Samantha, and I notice after awhile that our phones weren't just being used as an alarm clocks in the bedroom. We were bought developing habits of checking e-mails, reacting to notifications, and basically not sharing with each other before bed anymore, not reading, not allowing ourselves time to reflect about the day, etc. We recognize our hybrid West interfering with our love life and ability to fall asleep easily. We went to a secondhand store and bought two old-fashioned alarm clocks. It's been years now within offering the bedroom rule. And it made a big difference for our health and the health of our relationship. For those of you who are wondering, No, we have no mixed out on any news or emergencies that we will have needed our phones right by our bid for. Simply by going back to old technology, we were giving ourselves a huge digital detox. For those of you who enjoy listening to content like meditation or watching something fun in bed, you can always get a specific device. Yes, for that purpose, I must have half an iPod with lots of areas of meditations I can listen to. And I also have a dedicated iPhone to use Insight Timer. I sometimes use this one if I want to listen to my full content. But I don't have any notifications on, and I don't have any other apps in this device. It really helped me stay away from distractions. Be intentional with notifications and sounds. Letting your device interrupt you with notification. Every time there is an update in any of the apps that you use can be very distracting and very annoying. I invite you to really be intentional about your notifications. Every apps default is to make noises and the strike you. It's your job to change how you receive your notifications. I strongly recommend avoiding noise, vibration, and blinking lights as much as possible. In my case, for example, the early sounds I get on my phone, phone calls and text messages. Everything else is muted and there are no lights or by brushing distracting me. When I decided to, I will turn on the screen and take my notifications. You can decide what works best for you and your specific situation. He talks are very helpful to delete any apps do no longer use. You can always get them again. And every time you install a new app, take the extra seconds to change the notification settings. Encourage the use of headphones in shared spaces. When sharing spaces in your home, It's important to enjoy what you are listening to or watching, but it's also important to respect others in that space. I myself don't like to listen to whatever my wife is watching or listening in her full. It really distracts me and annoys me. This is why we all use headphones to make sure we respect each other and don't pollute the space. Unwanted noise. I encourage you to give it a try and notice the difference. Keep manual cables and any accessories of its device together in a Ziploc bag and labeled the bag with the name of the device. This will help you avoid clutter and you will find things easily. If you decide to set the device or give it away in the future, it will be very easy and convenient to know that everything you need is in that back. I know, man, I keep everything with each device and are able to sell them when I agreed the device. This way I get some cashback. Someone else's login the device and using it. And the most important part, I avoid accumulating data credit. Please be curious about all these ideas and give them are known as try. It's important to create your spaces in a way that will facilitate your intentions. If you make it convenient to put devices away and have created permanent charging stations. This will allow you to create the healthy habits that you are after. Remember that you have the power to set a strong tensions so that the data world doesn't control you. When you stop being intentional, the digital world will always win. Come back to this session anytime you feel overwhelmed by your data world and need to set new intentions. I invite you to share in the course classroom which one of these ideas you like the most and your experience implementing them. You can also share any specific questions you may have. I promise I will support you with an audio response. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to maintain your credit free home and transition through stages of life. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 18. Maintaining, Creating Rituals & Transitioning Through Stages Of Life: Welcome back to the 17. Thank you for being here. In the last session, Julian, strategies to embrace your digital life with intention. Today we are focusing on step three, maintenance. Remember that step one was awareness and step to West taking action. Once you have created your new clutter-free home, it's time to maintain it and create new habits and rituals to sustain all the amazing changes that you have created. Consistency in your actions is the key to success. It's also important to understand the cycles of life and how you need to add yes, through all the different stages to create a home that sustains you and your new needs and desires. Let's start with our practice to get you granite and excited. Please get in a comfortable position. Close your eyes if you can. Take a couple of deep breaths. I want you to remember that you are making big changes during this is and you are questioning many habit, many beliefs Andrei to us that you have followed for a very long time. How long have you been following the same habits and routines for? Allow yourself time and space to really become aware of it. Has it been months, years? Decades? It does take time and consistency to change your habit. Each normal to drop the ball Shawn times or many times. It's normal to feel uncomfortable or the fact that you at least running all the way here shows that you are committed and ready to do this. But please let go of perfection. Let go off unrealistic high expectations you may have for yourself. Maybe causing you stress and even anxiety. When you do this to yourself, you start feeling like you are failing. You may even get overwhelmed, frozen, and medicine to even keep up. Wherever you are right now is the perfect place for you. Whatever you are going through now, each what you need to keep making progress. I invite you to a focus on the present moment, on what's happening right now. On how you are feeling right now. On all delete their progress. You are making every single day on how your life is going to be. If you keep taking action towards what you really want, remind yourself that you are learning something new. It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are necessary for you to really embody all these changes. Mistakes are not failures. Mistakes are the learnings that you need to become aware in order create what you want. Celebrate every single milestone, every single sign of progress. Take a couple of deep breaths with me. One more. I want you to visualize yourself enough as a little child. Learning how to walk. Visualize how much fun and excitement you are having when you stand up on your own for a fraction of a second. When you take your first step, when you start walking from the couch to the wall, when you fall a thousand times, he might get all the adults around you celebrating every single win with a big smile, with very proud faces, with loving and current men. They never will tell you to stop because you felt they will always encourage you to keep going. They will reassure you that they are there to protect you, to catch you, to keep you safe. They won't care how long it takes you to master this new skill. It's perfect the way T's everybody ECS enjoying the process and letting everything yes. Happened the way it is supposed to happen. I want you to visualize that little child inside of you. And I want you to be the adult to that child. I want you to treat yourself the same way that you will treat that little child. Learning. Walk that little child, he's in you, Lenny, how to do something new. Think scary, and certain. Something exciting. I want you to encourage that little child. Celebrate every little step. Always, always. Love and support that little chat. Please take us much stimulus you need to stay with that little child. Comfort him or her, do whatever feels right. When you are ready. Feel free to come back. Pause the audio if you need to spend more time with that little child. Every time I visualize the little child inside of me, I always feel strong emotions in my body. I feel a lot of compassion, a lot of love, and need to nurture and protect that little child. I am sure that you are so experience emotions and I invite you to explore them. I invite you to spend more time with that little child inside of you. Especially when going through the process of learning something new. It took you to cry, to smile. It took eight to do whatever you need to do. Let any emotion express itself the way it needs. Now, I want to share with you specific questions I received from members of my community that will help me answer your questions around the maintenance step. How often to put items from home? Is the blend to do this four times a year or graduate puts every month or week. Davis no right or wrong answer here. For some it may be necessary to purge four times a year. For others, ten times a year, and for others, once a year will be enough. The more your life changes, the more you may need to reassess your home and your belongings. Be aware of the different status of life and their specific needs that each state may require. For example, being a student, moving in with your parents, having a baby, moving to a new home, changing your hobbies, having an accident and being physically limited, becoming empty nesters, downsizing into a smaller space, etc. Every time you feel frustrated in your space, integrity, It's time to take some time to become aware of why I made the necessary changes. Ideally, dedicatory process should be a onetime event, not something that you do every day. These one time event can last hours, days, weeks, months, but you will start the process and finish it. Cleaning and putting things back where they belong is something that you should do daily, weekly to maintain your home. As items coming to your home, you can be proactive and question if you'd really need them. And if the answer is yes, you need to create a Humphrey him. If you lived many items come into your home and you don't have space for them, you may need to let something else goal. It's also helpful to have a donation back or box going for anything that no longer serve. You. Either have a donation back in my closet, the nation back in my daughter's closet, and a donation box in the basement. This way, every time I decided to let go of something, I have a place to drop it. When their bags and boxes are full. I will do a donation Runner. Another question from another member. Ease. In different phases of life. One has the front and neat for a staff that becomes cluttered after a few years. Especially with kids. So our perspective on how to organize things in a flexible, changeable and belief would manner will be great. I say were saying before every stage of life we require different needs. Your home will evolve. As those needs change. It's important to recognize these changes and puts them in a playful manner as yourself. What's needed from my home now? What activities who I am, my family wanted to pursue? What are our current frustrations? Every time your life that changes it. To go back to step one, awareness, to discover what's needed, and to have clear communication with your loved ones. These are specific lesson about kids and play rooms in this course. Another question is, what is their timeline for shunting that you can get rid of? I mean, I said a rule for myself. If I am not using something for last six months, then I am going to donate. But I still get confused. That is not a set rule on how often they should be that it would change depending on your situation. I always recommend to go back to step one. Works every time you feel fresh it so that you can find out what you need to change and take action to meet these new needs in your space. In our own case, we normally the credit our spaces at least once a year. Unless we feel frustration before that, then we will build time to explore what's needed. We are very proactive with things like coming to our home. We will say no, we don't need them or we don't have the space for them. If we accept them, then we will create a home for it. Immediately. I went to finish this session by reminding you that any task that you do in your home includes putting away whatever you use in its permanent home. If you don't follow these rules immediately, you need to set our ones had the clean-up time. In our case every night we make sure our kids in is clean and ready for the next day. Think about transitioning from task to task. I'm making sure that you include these maintenance technique of putting things back. If I fix something and I have used tools, I put those tools back. If I went to the gym when they come back home, part of that activity is to put my bag in the closet with my dirty clothes in the laundry, and hang my towel to dry. If you don't follow these basic maintenance technique clutter, we'll come back very quickly to your Hong. He took it to drop the abortion times and let a few days go by without typing. But then maybe once a week, you said the edition to make sure everything is pulled back in its place. I hope this session gives you some practical and inspiring steps to keep your home clutter-free. Please ****. Any further questions you may have in the course classroom? They don't know silly questions, meaning, if you are thinking about it, many honors add too. So don't be shy and **** Anything that you need. I will support you with another response. Thank you so much for finishing this. If I am looking forward to being with you in the next session, where you are going to learn cleaning routines and how to create space for your pet's needs. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 19. Cleaning Routines & Pets: Welcome back to the 18. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you will learn strategies to maintain your credit free home. Once you create your beautiful, sacred and carefree home, it's very important to create healthy cleaning routines. In this session, you will learn how to streamline your cleaning by creating simple routines to follow. For those of you who have pet. We will also talk about ways to integrate your pets, belongings in your home and all the necessary routines that needs to happen to ensure they are well taken care of. When it comes to cleaning data or an infinite amount of products that you can get. I have seen a lot of clutter due to cleaning products, bottles. You could get one body for every specific space if you really want it. The question is, do you really need them? If you have this space and you really enjoy using several cleaning products, that's fine. If you are feeling overwhelmed, you don't have a lot of space to store products. You don't like using dangerous chemicals and you are looking to streamline your cleaning supplies to more natural products, then you may be surprised that the only thing that you really need is white vinegar and baking soda. You can clean and disinfect any area of your home with yes, these two inexpensive, harmless and EC2 get product. Both Keaton ingredients are effective cleaning agents because they are found on opposite sides of the pH scale. Ph is a measure of how acidic or basic a substance is on a scale from one very acidic to 14, very basic. With a neutral value at seven. Pure water has a pH of seven. Baking soda has a pH of nine, while vinegar has a pH of two. Baking soda, the source compounds like Greece and other sticky keys. In addition, the mineral structure of its baking soda particle provides a gentle abrasive to clean without leaving scratches behind. As an acid, vinegar breaks down minerals that form from hard tap water, forming unsightly stains or sinks. Taps on counters. Here are some recipes to try fresh in your sink by mixing one part of baking soda with two parts of vinegar. This mixture unlocks and effervescent fees of carbon dioxide. That greens and fresh and drains remove high water stains by pressing a vinegar soak towel over the affected area. After a few washings, remove the cloth and scrub the affected area with a paste made of baking soda and water. Killed mildew in laundry using baking soda and vinegar. Add a half a cup of baking soda with the laundry detergent to supercharge the cleaning process. Follow this with one cup of vinegar during the rinse cycle to kill bacteria and self-image fabric. Clean grout by applying a baking soda paste made of baking soda and water. Spray the pace with vinegar before scrubbing the agreement way. I invite you to do an online search of this specific area you are trying to clean. And you will be amazed at how many options you will find. For example, you can type something like how to clean my tab with white vinegar and baking soda. Or how to clean with baking soda and white vinegar to get dinner ideas. The next step is to create a home for all your cleaning supplies. You can decide where to keep your broom, vacuum mop, buckets, cleaning supplies close, and any other cleaning related products or equipment you may need. Make sure you declutter and only keep. What do you really need. Then do this I wear these things are going to leave. Some people use the laundry room, this user section of a closed set, or use the basement. You get to this high what area of your home makes the most sense to you? Feel free to test it. And if it doesn't feel right, allow yourself to try another area. Use a new area for a few weeks and tweak it, doesn't need it. Once you use it for a few weeks with no frustrations. That means that you find the right setup for you. If at anytime in the future your cleanest change or you sense frustration, make sure you reflect about why you are feeling frustrated and change whatever you need to change. Now that you know what to use to clean. And you have a functional designated area to keep all your cleaning supplies and equipment. It's time to create routines to keep your credit free home clean. When it comes to cleaning, there is no right or wrong approach to it. Everybody has a different comfort level and different willingness on how much time to spend doing it. For some it's necessary to clean every week. For others, every two weeks. For others, once a month. You get to decide the frequency of it. In our own personal case, we clean the kids and daily after. Cooking and web the table and the counters so that they are free of credit and clean for the next years. In BC days, we do this at the end of the day. We back in the house and clean the bathroom. Normally once a week with us once every couple of weeks. We take the garbage and recycling out every time he is full and put the garbage out on the curve once a week. This is just one example. I invite you to write down the tasks that you want to do and then write down how often you are planning on doing them. If you live with someone else, talk about who does what, or maybe you rotate tasks, find a happy balance. For example, I always do garbage or my wife or with vacuums and cleans the bathroom. We do rotate laundry, doing dishes, and cooking every day. One day I take care of it. And the following day my wife does it. After trying several approaches. This is the one that works for us with the create a list together of things we love doing, things we headed doing, and things that we were neutral about. It worked out that she loves vacuuming and cleaning. I love doing the garbage. We would hate dishes and laundry. That's why it made sense that she vacuums and cleans and either the garbage and we alternate dishes and laundry. If you have children, it's important to involve them in the process and have them complete small tasks like putting stuff in the garbage. Thus, surfaces, put dishes in the sink or dishwasher, put the laundry away, or dirty laundry in the laundry basket, etc. The older they are, the more they can do. It's important to have a garbage station that everybody understand and it's convenient to use in our home, for example, we have garbage recycling and composting. We also have a designated place for donations. So everybody knows how to use the system. Our 2.5 year old daughter knows how to use it. That's how simple it is. I am in charge of once a week or when the garbage is full to take it outside and change the box, I'm wash the bean if needed. We do have a garbage can in the bathroom, wanting the bedroom, one in the kids in the basement, one in our tiny office in the back, yet I make sure that I empty all of them once a week as needed. I also put their recycling out once a week and empty the compost several times a week into our big composted in the garden. Situation may look different and your garbage system may work differently. But their routine you create may look similar. For those of you who have pets or are thinking of getting one, it's important to allocate space for your pets, food and water bowl, space for their food supply and treats, space for all the accessories and toys they may need, space for their bed and space for cat later if you have a cat, there is also a routine associated to feeding them, cleaning after them, cleaning the cat litter, etc. When you get a pet, you have to adjust your home accordingly to make sure that all your pet's needs our cobalt and you avoid clutter and frustration. You're cleaning routines may change to and you may need to clean and vacuum or often. When you have a creditor free home. It's also way easier to hire someone to clean for you. Many times I get calls because people wanted to hire a cleaner. And cleaner said that they were not able to clean due to credit. They encoded stem to the color first, and then they can maintain the house for you by cleaning once a week, bi-weekly, or once a month. Cleaner will help you maintain, but they normally won't help you. They cut it and organize. That's what these courses helping you do. When you have a clear cleaning routine in place, it's easier to set clear expectations with others. It may help you clean your home. Do you have like a guideline? You can also invite them to maybe do laundry for you while they clean. Maybe clean the fridge and do some deep cleaning that you normally don't do on a regular basis. It's important that you have clarity first about your needs and expectations so that you can communicate them clearly. We tried to integrate our cleaning routines into our life in a way that feels relaxed and not overwhelming. For example, we do laundry while cooking, cleaning, or watching a movie so that we don't have to stay home yes, to do laundry. We fold the laundry while Watson something, listening to something, or while spending time with our daughter, that she can help us. We make clean and do our garbage routine while we are making dinner, while we're listening to our podcast or nice music. I personally avoid having to stay home during the weekend, for example, because I have to clean and do laundry. I tried to be proactive and efficient with it so that it happens easily and effortlessly and try to make it an enjoyable task. I hope this session hope you feel inspired and motivated to clean your credit free home efficiently, in a fun way. Please share any questions you may have and also any cleaning tips that you may use in the course classroom. The next sessions of this course are going to be focusing on specific basis of your home that you can learn more specific strategies to the credit and organize them. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session, where you are going to learn deeper strategies to the credit and organize your kitchen, pantry and fridge. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 20. Kitchen, Pantry, & Fridge: Welcome back to Day 19. Thank you for being here. You are making amazing progress. In the last session, you'll learn strategies to clean your home. From now on. Every session is going to cover a specific area of your home so that you can learn more strategies and tips to help you conquer the clutter and create an inviting space where you feel great. The first place I went to cover today, East your kitchen, pantry and fridge. We use the Keating every day and every time I go to a house party, guess where I always end up gathering with other people in the kids in one of the main spaces. I always help autistic adult and organize kittens. I went to share with you some best practices you can use in your day-to-day meal plan to save you time, money, and eat healthier. I went to help you create a functional kitchen, pantry and fridge. Many people, I help describe it as a ketone flow. Remember the three main steps to follow when decluttering and organizing. Step one is awareness. Step two is action, and step three is maintenance. Let's get started with our practice to help you become aware of your idea. Flow. Please get in a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Visualize your kitchen. What do you see? How do you feel in your kitchen now? What do you love from it? What do you hate from it? Do you experience any frustrations when you use your kitchen? Do you have enough space to store all your kitchen equipment? Do you have enough space to store all your food? Do you find yourself throwing away spoiled food? Often? You able to find everything you need easily. What are the main activities that you do in your kitchen? You cook In this stuff. Do you use the open? Do you like baking? Your counters clear so that you can work comfortably? Now, I want you to snap your fingers, visualize your kids had transformed into a space that is inviting, efficient, clear of clutter. What do you see? How do you feel? What's different? Look around. Open your cabinet, hope in your fridge. Half a look at your pantry. What would you be able to do in this kitchen that you can't do now? Visualize yourself in the kitchen, cooking. Easily. Enjoying your time, finding things conveniently. Having clear surfaces to work on, having a clear home for everything that you need to stay here for as long as you want. Looking around, connecting with your feelings. Getting excited, joining this new kits and flow that you have created for yourself. When you are ready, come back to the present moment. Take a couple of deep breaths. Now it's time to take action. Make your vision a reality. Remember that once you have clarity and awarness about what you want, it's time to declare that everything that no longer serves you keep only what you truly want a neat. Once you are left only with the things that you want, you need to create a permanent home for each thing. You will designate a space for plates, for caps, pants, and poets. Food, kitchen equipment, like your blender, your grill, your food processor. And any other equipment that you are keeping. Some equipment may live on top of the counters and some other may live inside the cabinet or in the pantry. In our case, we keep our toaster, urban ghetto and Vitamix blender on the counter permanently. Because we use them often enough. We do keep our food processor, our crock-pot, and our grill in the lower part of the cabinet and in the boundary. The plates, cups, ports, punch, etc. Half a permanent home. And our counters are empty and ready to work on. It's two foot. You may store food in your kitchen cabinet, in your pantry, and inside your fridge. It's important to know how much space you have to store food so that you don't over by. If you buy more quantity that you can store, then you will be facing having credit, basically having food that don't have a home. In our case, we have our pantry design in categories like pasta, rice, canned goods, baking supplies, and vinegars. We know how many of each category we can store. So when we create our grocery shopping list, we know how many of each weekend Bye. You can take the same approach for your fried. Create a spot inside the fruit for all your staples. And figure out how many of each you can store so that you avoid over buying. It's a great exercise to try and use everything in your fried before going grocery shopping. This way, you will avoid food waste. It will be easier for you to see what you have. It will be easier for you to clean your freed. You will avoid feeling overwhelmed by having a pact for it and not knowing what's in there. Some people love having a full fret. Like me, may feel overwhelmed by the number of options. It's important that you understand what makes you feel well, and what frustrates you and design your fried. Accordingly. It's important to have an ongoing grocery list. In our case, we do have a glass board on the wall. We will write down anything we notice we may need. For example, if our bank has paid for four counts off tomatoes, I am using the second last, I will write down two by three contrast tomatoes. If I notice we're running low on olive oil. I will write to get one. This way you are taking a proactive approach instead of having to figure out what you need once you are in the grocery store and ending up buying things that you don't need. Forgetting other important thing effects. By doing this. We also save time grocery shopping because we only go normally once every couple of weeks to do our big shopping. You can use a notebook, your phone, or whatever system works best for you. If you live with others. Remember, include them in the process. When helping others decoder and organize their kittens, pantries, and fridges. These are some of the strategies I have fun work very well. Said The intentions before starting. And be clear about what kind of cooking you are planning on doing. So that you can have clarity about what to keep and what to let go. It's helpful to make an inventory of what you really need. For example, we need six plates, six cups, six glasses, etc. The more space you have, the more you can store. If space is limited, the things you only use occasionally in another space, like the basement, close it, garage. For example. If you have an extra set of dishes for when you entertain. But that's an, a special event that only happens once every few months. You may keep those extra dishes outside of your kitten. Same applies for appliances that you only use his sporadically. Make sure that you declared it every cabinet in your kitchen and only keep what you really need. Optimize the vertical space in your cabinet. You can add extra shelves. You can use Lazy Susan. You can use beings to contain loose staff like gravy, the ******. I normally find a lot of wasted space inside the cabinet. It makes a drastic difference to optimize that vertical speaks. Create a good flow. Think about the activities that you do and your style of cooking, and keep things I like to gather. For example, if you like baking, make sure you have a baking goods section where everything is accessible. Create categories inside your cabinets, like caps with cups, plates with plate, board, with boats, and the same idea with food. This way you will start finding the happy balance between how much space you have and how much you can store of its type. You can always tweak and move things around as needed. Think about the things you use more often and place them in the most convenient place. If you make coffee daily, make sure everything is accessible. And together I think our limitations, we're placing things. For example, if you have kids, make sure you place the things they need to access in ritual places. If you live with someone shorter than you, be mindful about it. Please. Heavy ambiguity appliances in lower cabinet for easy access. The criteria are pantry and design how you want to, In your foot, figure out how much of fits category you can store to avoid overbite and optimize the usage of vertical space, if possible. Have an ongoing grocery shopping list where you can keep track of everything that you need. You can create a meal plan to know what you need to buy. This will save you time doing unnecessary trips to the store. Decide how often you would like to cook a meal prep in advance. By planning ahead of time, you can get stuff ready for the week and safe a lot of time and energy while eating great homemade food. You can cook more quantity and freeze portions for future use. When cooking, you could use the oven and the stove and a crock-pot at the same time to maximize your effort. If you have space, having an extra freezer can be very helpful. Make sure you push on your food properly, labeled it with name and date using masking tape. Try to use everything you have often so that you can clean everything up and start fresh. This applies to your Fritz pantry and kitchen cabinet shop from home when possible. This strategy will help you avoid food waste and feel overwhelmed. Plus it feels great to start fresh. I hope these tips have you declare it and organize your kitchen, your pantry, and your fridge. I am sure you will have questions about your specific situation. Please share them in the course classroom. And I promise I will share further strategies and ideas to help you create your kitchen floor. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to master your closet, your clothes, your laundry. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 21. Closet, Clothes, & Laundry: Hello, Welcome back to day 20. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you'll learn strategies to improve your kids in flow. In this session, we're going to dive into your closet, close and laundry. We all have to get dressed every day and we all have to deal with laundry. Believe it or not, there is a secret relationship between laundry and how you organize your closet. Once you discover your own closet and laundry flow, your life will change forever. I can't wait to help you discover your flow. For dealing with cloth is very emotional. For others. Close ECS one more thing. They have no problem getting things go. When dealing with clothes and designing your closet, It's important to understand your specific needs and your style. Some people may enjoy having variety in their closet to choose from. Others may feel overwhelmed by the amount of choices and prefer to just have a few pieces to choose from. They don't enjoy fashion too much and yes, want to get dressed and look okay, Quickly. I went to help you discover what your relationship with close is, what your ideal clotted and laundry system may look like. I am going to guide you through some questions. I invite you to get comfortable. Half pen and paper ready. Notice how you feel after listening to each question. Feel free to pause the audio at anytime and exploring more depth, any emotions that may arise. You ready? Let's go. Take a couple of deep breaths and notice your breath going in and out. Feel free to close your eyes. If it feels good to you. I want you to focus your attention in your closet. In all the clothes do you own? And the way you normally do your laundry. How do you feel? What emotions come up when thinking of your clothes? How do you feel when you open your close it? How do you feel when you do laundry? Allow yourself time to really connect with any feelings that may come up. Maybe you feel proud of your closet, all the clothes that you can choose from. Maybe you feel overwhelmed by the volume of clothes in your closet and how difficult it is to get dressed every day. Stay here for a little. It Keep breathing deeply. And notice any tension that may show up in your body. Keep focusing your attention in your closet, dresser, or any other storage space. Where do you keep your clothes? What do you like from your closet? What frustrates you? Is it easy for you to get dressed? Do you wear everything that you own? Do you have a lot of clothes that you don't? Where? Do you keep Applause hanging? Fold it on a shelf. Maybe you just get dressed speaking your gross from the laundry basket because you didn't put them away. Maybe you feel proud of your closure because everything is nicely folded and organize. How you keeping close that you no longer were because you feel strong emotional attachment. Dq pay a lot of money for them and you feel guilty to let them go. Did you increase your size and are hoping to be able to fit in them again in the future. Are you storing cross from a loved one that is no longer with you? You feel sad, him go. Are you starting close? You don't wear because they were gifted to you and you feel obligated to keep them. I want you to visualize your head and everything inside it. Really question every item you on. How do you feel when you encounter each item? The reasons why those emotions come up. Now, I want you to focus on your laundry system. How often do you do laundry? Daily, weekly? Monthly. Do you mind doing laundry? Do you normally follow your clothes and put them back in your closet? After doing your laundry? What emotions come up for you when thinking of laundry? Feel free to write down anything that may help you reflect and become more aware of your current situation. If you could snap your fingers and create your idea closer laundry flow. How does he looked like? How do you feel? What would you change? Take some time to visualize your closet. A word you would love to see it. Look around, connect with how you feel when you look at this amazing closet. Visualize yourself getting dressed easily. Having fun. Are looking great everyday. Visualize yourself doing your laundry efficiently. No more pairs of 30 close screaming at, you know, more feelings of overwhelmed. How often do you do laundry? Where do you keep your dirty clothes? Visualize yourself getting your laundry done in no time. I'm putting everything back quickly. Imagine yourself freeing up time every day and week. It more fun and creative activities. It is possible. You can do this. You are in the process of transforming your closet, your laundry floor. Thank you so much for taking the time to do in this exercise with me. It really helps to acknowledge your current reality and envision what you really want. Now I want to share with you some strategies that may help you improve the way you organize your clothes, closet and laundry. There is not a right or wrong way of doing this. Depending on your specific situation. Some approaches may be more effective than others. For example, if you feel very emotional when dealing with clothes, you may need a more gentle and relaxed approach to deal with your close slowly so that you have time and space to cope with all the emotions that may show up and still move forward at a pace that feels good to you. If you have no attachment to your clothes and you are ready to just get it done, then you may benefit from a more direct and fast approach. You are ready to let go and you don't need as much time to cope with strong emotions. Keeping in mind what I just said, please listen to this idea. If curiosity and an open mind, always notice your reaction and how you feel. Some ideas may feel really aligned with you, and others may feel like too much for you. Take the ones that you resonate the most width and get started taking action. As you make progress, you may be able to implement some of the areas that right now feel like too much for you. The secret here is to keep making progress. Even very little progress is better than no progress. You ready? Here we go. Make a list of the things you love and hate about your closet and laundry system. When making changes, keep the things you like and change the ones are frustrate, you test, then you changes and tweak as needed. Make a list of all the clauses you really need. On a weekly basis. You can divide your clothes in different categories. For example, you may have a work category, Jim category, a category, and add relaxed category breakdown. What do you need on each category? For example, work category. I need to bed of work pants and three pairs of T-shirts and five pair of socks and five petals underwear. Gin category. I go to the gym three times a week. I need three pairs of shirts and three sports t-shirts, and three pairs of socks and underwear plus two towers. And you do the same process for all the other categories that you have. When you have a clear list with clear quantities, you can then decide how often you want to do laundry. If you decide you want to do laundry once a week, you know the quantity of clothes that unit from the list that you just made. If you want to do laundry once every two weeks, you will need double the amount of clothes. If you decide to do laundry in 73 weeks, then you will need to have three times the amount of clothes. Keep in mind that the longer you wait to do laundry, the more close you will need to store in your closet. You will also spend more time doing laundry, more time folding. I'm putting things away. From my own experience. I recommend doing laundry weekly. This way the task is less overwhelming and putting things away don't take too long. It also helps you reduce the amount of closet space that you need it to watch it yourself. These questions, honestly, many times we would staff in the laundry that doesn't have to be washed yet. You can probably worth things more than once. By doing this, you will reduce your laundry considerably. Once you have clarity about your specific needs, it's time to confront your clothes. You can sort your closing categories and the credit what you no longer need. You can donate them, sell them, or give them to friends and family. Only put back what you are keeping. If you are motivated and ready. I will invite you to take everything out of your closet, place your list. And things you need in a visible place. And start selecting your favorite pieces of fits category until you have enough. If you have extra space, you can keep more things if you like. You will then feel confident to let go of the rest. Remove anything that doesn't belong in your closet, and move it to the appropriate location or letting go if you no longer needed if you need to store all their things and clothes in your closet, make sure that you separate the space properly. Once you know what you're storing in your closet, it's time to optimize the vertical usage of your closet by adding extra sheriffs, adding a dresser or more hanging bars. If you are facing a big volume of growth and you feel emotional attachment, you can get started slowly by placing a donation back in your closet or bedroom and dropping things you no longer want or need slowly. You will be amazed how much progress you will make after just a few weeks. If you have a small close it and you love clothes and want to keep more quantity that what you can store. I would recommend that you keep your cross at functional and not cluttered and rotate your clothes every few weeks or every few months. You can keep the extra closing boxes or beans in a different space. The solution only works if you have extra storage space somewhere else in your home. For those of you having a hard time letting go, I will invite you to look at your list of needed clause. Empty your closet and only put back what's on your list. And then keep all the other close temporarily in boxes or somewhere else in your home. Experience how it feels to have a function across it for a few days or a few weeks. Then go back to all the clothes you stored and decide what to do with them. I promise you that you will feel more confident and half more gravity. If you miss something in the meantime, you can always go and get it. If you don't miss anything, you can always decide if you want to put things back. Maybe you decide to rotate your closet, or maybe you love the simplicity so much that you decide to let everything go. Understand your preferred storage method for your growth. Some people like to hang everything. All this, love using chefs. Love using drawers. If you are not sure, keep all these options or try and see which one do you like the most. You are more likely to keep a system that you enjoy using. If you are having a hard time putting your clean laundry away because you don't like it. You don't want to waste time, etc. I invite you to use pins and yes, Separate your laundry by category. For example, you can have a beam for shocks or being for underwear, or being for short, are being for t-shirts. The only step you need to do is to drop things in those beams. This is a great first step, and for many it will stay like this forever. For others, after building this habit, it will be easier to then start folding things. I hope some of these ideas help you master your closet and laundry flow. By the end of this process, you will not have any clothes, towels, linens, etc, laying around anymore. All your clothes, towels and leaners will have a permanent home. If you decided to keep extras that don't fit in your closet, you will have them nicely packed and labeled in boxes or bins in a different storage area in your home. Always, please share any questions you may have about your specific situation in the course classroom so that I can support you further. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you're going to learn how to declare it and organize your bedroom and bathroom. Until then, I hope you have animation rest of your day. 22. Bedroom & Bathroom: Welcome back to day 21. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you lent strategies to create your closet and laundry flow. Today we are going to talk about your bedroom and bathroom. By now, you have tackled all your clothes, towels, linens, and your closet. You have also create a good laundry flow that you are able to maintain weekly. This is normally one of the main credit areas of your bedroom. You are ahead of the game. Many of you may be thinking, Emilio, I didn't have enough time to finish with my clothes and laundry yet. And that's totally okay. I am not expecting you to finish every space in gas one day. It's not realistic. These deep dive sessions that we are doing now in this course are designed to help you really conquer the credit. It needs pace of your home. I will recommend you listen to all of them once. Ask as many questions as you need on each one in the course classroom that you have time to get support from me and time to process any new information and new tips that you may learn, then you can decide what space you are focusing on next and come back to this specific session. Listen to it again and get started. Don't forget to follow the steps that you have learned in this course. Stepwise awareness, step to action. And step three, maintenance. And take advantage of the credit visualization meditation and the Designing Your ideal space exercise. Please allow yourself as much time as you need. Be gentle with yourself and move at a pace that feels good to you. When you are ready to dive into specific space, remember to use the course classroom to share any challenges, and he wins. And any further questions you may have. You can share as much as you want. And there is no time limit. You can come back after a few weeks, a few months. And he went a few years to get support. As your life evolves, your home will keep evolving to you are not alone in this process anymore. You have lifetime access to me and to this amazing community. Let us go back to your bedroom and bathroom. As always, the first step of the process is becoming aware. Great job. You need to become aware of your current situation and why your bedroom and bathroom are the way they are. Now. Then get clear on your desired outcome. And once you feel clear, it's time to declare either organize, and beautify your bedroom and your bathroom. You are going to love the end result. I can't wait to see the transformation the way you will feel once you are done. Okay, Let's get started. In this session, I feel like trying something different. I invite you to stand up and go to your bedroom. If you are not home, you can close your eyes and visualize it. Post this session until you go back home. When you are ready. Please stand in the center of your bedroom. Or visualize it. I want you to focus your attention in one corner of the room. Then start turning around slowly, paying attention to everything that lives in eardrum. Now until you come back to the same coordinate. This is what I call the wave technique. The first time you do your wave, I want you to do a mental inventory of all the things that you have in your bedroom. For example, I'm standing in the center of my own bedroom now. I have chosen a coordinate to get started. Then I am turning around slowly until I do a complete 360 degrees circle. While turning around. I am noticing I see my entry door. Behind the door. There are two guitar cases. Behind the door. There is a hunger with a towel and a house code. Then I keep turning right and I see a lamp bag full of clothes to be donated. Keyboard with some books on the top to be written to the library. My bedside table with some papers on top, waterboarded, some books on my journal. Then I see our bed. Then I see my wife's a table. On top of it. I see an alarm clock, lamp, a book. Then I see a hunger with a house coat hanging. I see a pile of clothes and a gene back beside the bed. Then I see the window. My daughter's crafts dresser, folding Table we use for crafts and work. Then I see our big dresser where we keep part of our clothes, a mirror, our singing bowls, sitting on top of the dresser. Then I see the closet door. I see a null window we have hanging on the wall that we use as our gratefulness board. And then I am back at the same point where I started. The idea with this exercise is to help you become aware of what you have in your bedroom and why you have it. You can do this exercise several times. And it's time dive deeper into some of the things. The more stuff you have, the more times you may benefit from doing this exercise. Each time you could focus on a specific. A category. By the end, you may have a pretty good idea of the categories that live in your bedroom and the activities that you do. It's normal to face emotions when you do this, remember to use some of these self-care practices that you have learned at the beginning of this course to call with any emotions that may arise. Now it's time to question how you feel about your bedroom, the things you like, the things that you dislike, and when to change, the activities that you really want to do. Or maybe you just want to sleep and avoid doing anything else. For some living in smaller spaces. Bedroom may serve several functions. Yes. Allow yourself time to feel what your desired outcome is. If you shared your bedroom with your partner, makes sure that you include him or her in the process. Maybe you create a clear separation on what your site and what's his or her side. You'll find your happy balance and then you can move into the action step. The action step, keeping your desired outcome in mind. The first thing you will do is to start in one corner of the bedroom and question everything you have. Do you need it? Does it belong here? Can you let it go? You can sort things alike first, if that's easier for you. By the end of this process, you will only keep the things that you need and want and you would let go of all the rest by donating in selling it or giving it to someone else. If you are facing emotional items, remember to ask yourself the questions that you land. The next step is organizing. You will create permanent homes for every item you are storing things like kinda garden and the stations they have. They have a reading station, Music Station, parcel station, etc. Once you have designated homes for all your belongings, it's time to beautify your bedroom. You can do a cleanser every morning if you'd like I said, the new intentions for the space. And I invite you to display things that you love. Hand beautiful pictures on the wall, add some beautiful plants, whatever feels good to you. Beautifying the setup process. And you get to show your personality and your style. It's the most fun stuff for the majority of the people I have worked with. So take your time and enjoy the process. For those of you who have limited space, make sure that you optimize how you use your closet to address her walls and the space under your bed. I think extra sheriffs, extra dressers, and any other organizing solution can help you optimize the usage of your vertical space and be able to create more homes for your belongings. Remember to do this process only after you have the clutter, let go of anything that you don't need. It doesn't make sense to organize things that you don't need. I invite you to follow the same process for your bathroom. Allow yourself some time to study in your bathroom and look around, observe everything you have, how you feel, the activities that you could really do in there, and the activities that you would like to start doing. In our case, for example, we wanted to start enjoying relaxing bath more often. I made a nice shelf that we can put along our bathtub so that we can set a nice Candle book and be more comfortable. We love it. We also wanted to make the bathroom more fun. We have beautiful family photos displayed on the shelves. We have colorful more stairs hanging from our shower curtain for my daughter, Eva. We have a little speaker for playing nice music. It's important to declare your bathroom first when helping others. One of the main credit problems that they are facing is having too many products and not enough space to store them. I would really invite you to create a list. First of the things that you really need before you get started. Bright down to things you use. For example, on my list I have toothpaste, toothbrush, mouthwash, bar of soap, bottle of shampoo. The other arm, sponge, nail clippers, hand tower, cotton swabs to clean my ears, com and sharing machine. You get the idea. Once you have your list, you have a guideline to help you decide what to keep and what to let go. If you end up with more produced and in space, you have to store them. You can try to optimize how you use your vertical space in your bathroom by adding extra shelves if possible. Another option is to keep a bean of bathrooms supplies in another space in your home, like your bedroom or your closet. This works well to keep extras that you don't need to use daily. Some people have a toiletry bean or bag that they use daily and they just bring that beam with them, won't go into the bathroom. This is a great solution for those of you who have flatmate and you want to keep all your stuff in your bedroom. Allocate space in your bathroom to store extras are things you may need. Like totally paper, extra clean towels. First aid been Madison's, extra toiletries and soaps and whatever you use on a regular basis. You can use beings to contain things together. For example, we have three bins on top of our shelf. One for first aid or medicines, and other for extra toiletries, and another for hair staff. You can create a once that makes sense for your specific needs. If you don't have enough space to store all the extras in your bathroom, make sure you create a home somewhere else in your home. In our case, IP extra toilet paper in our bedroom closet on the top shelf. I hope this session helps you the crater, organize and beautify your bedroom and bathroom. I am sure that you will have questions about your specific situation. I would love to superglue further in the course Classroom. Feel free to share anything you need in there. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we're going to dive into play rooms, kit, and toys. Until then, I hope you have animation rest of your day. 23. Playroom, Kids, & Toys: Welcome back to day 20 to thank you for being here. In the last session, you will learn strategies to help you, the creditor, organized and beautify your bedroom and bathroom. Today, I want to share with you ways to create a kid friendly home without drowning in toys, diapers, clothes, Lego pieces, or marbles. This session is especially designed for parents, grandparents, uncles and aunties, and anyone who shares their home with kids. All these strategies and ideas I'm about to share come from my own experience of helping hundreds of families in their own homes. And from my own experience of being a father of a beautiful 2.5 years old daughter, had name is Eva. Let me tell you that she is an expert of finding my buttons, challenging my strategies. I'm making big fan message. Yes, for the fun of it. She really helps me bring my a game when it comes to finding creative and playful ways to interact with our home. Anytime you want to involve children in any process, you need to be able to show them first. If you cannot show them how to do it, they will not do it. It's that simple. If you are telling your kids to put away things, but you don't have a clear system to follow. You don't know how to do it yourself, then you cannot show them how it's done. This is the reality for a lot of families. I have helped. They have a big volume of toys and kids stuff and no system in place. There is a great strategy to follow when helping the later ones lend something Neal. These are some helpful steps for you to follow. Step number one, you show them how to do it and they watch you. Step number two, you do it together with them. You may need to repeat this a few times for them to really understand the steps to follow and feel motivated to give it a try on their own. Step three, they do it and you watch them and support them along the way. Please be patient and allow them time and space to try to fail. To try again. Don't jump too quickly to help them. Let them ask you for help when they need it, and always praise them along the way. In step four, day do it alone. Yeah, It's so amazing when they can do it themselves. And they feel so proud and independent. Plus you will start reaping the rewards of them being able to do things independently without your constant health. Now that you have a clear step-by-step process to follow when helping the reader once lamp something new, let's dive into some of the strategies in no specific order to help you create a fun and playful child friendly home. As always, listen to these ideas with curiosity and an open mind. Upset how you feel after listening to eat idea and implement the ones that feel right to your specific situation. Are you ready? Let's get started. Feel free to close your eyes if you feel more comfortable. Become aware of your specific situation around choice. And kids staff said they intentions and get clear on what your desired outcome is. Follow the exercises that you have learned in this course for deeper awareness, if needed. Says what you have and the credit, everything that you no longer want or need. Let go of unwanted items. You can sell them, donate them, give them to family or friends. Gas makes sure that they leave this space. Once you are left with only the things that you are keeping, it's time to organize them. Soar things alike and create categories that makes sense to you. And the better ones. Like parcel in those books, clothes, music, Lego, shoes, etc. Once you have all the categories created, it will be easier for you to see how much space they take. Now it's time to create a permanent home or station where you will keep them. For example, books live on the bookshelf. Parsers leaf in the first row of the dresser. Music leaves on the first chef inside the closet. Lagos live in a specific beam under the bed, etc. You get the general idea. Create these stations, test him and tweak them as needed. It's okay if it's not perfect from day one, allow yourself the opportunity to move things around until you get the right flow going. Keep loose toys contain using a say block back a bean or a box and label them. By doing this, it's clear and easy to know where all the little pieces of a specific toy need to go back. Weren't playing with our daughter. We encouraged her to be intentional about the activity she wants to do. Then she can open whatever she wants to play with. It, then put it back in its back and move on to the next activity. It's amazing to see how much she understands how William cheese to put things back, especially when we help her and make it fun. Limit the amount of toys and other staff to the amount of space that you have allowed for that specific category. For example, if you have designated the first row of the drifter to store puzzles, that's your bustle station. Then once that drawing is full, it's time to let some puzzles go or rotate them and save the extras in a different location. Include clean-up time daily to make sure everything goes back to its home or station. You can apply here the steps you learn on how to teach the little ones to learn something new. Show them first, then do it with him. Then let them do it alone where you support and encoding them. And finally, they will do it alone and feel great to be independent. The less quantity you have. This motor demands, they will make the list clean-up time you will need, get like messes. So the only way to prevent an overwhelming miss that would take a long time to clean up is too limited quantity of his staff that they have access to. You can start rotating toys and keeping some inboxes are beamed in a different place in your home. For an example, we have two big beams in the basement, store it full of toys and only keep a few in our daughter's room. We have noticed that Sheets pinch more intentional time with fewer toys. She makes smaller masses that are easier to clean up. She stays focused longer and she gets very excited to find new toys when we rotate them. She also loved how to let go of attachment to things. Would rotate, choice every two to three weeks normally. Limit where toys leaf in your house. If you don't have to have toys everywhere in your home, you can set specific boundaries and let the little ones know. For example, in our case, we keep all her toys in her room. She gets to play everywhere in the house, but she knows everything needs to go back to her room. If you have space to have a dedicated playroom, that's great. If you like seeing toys in every space in your home, then that's your choice. When creating stations to put things away. Make sure that they are accessible for them so that they have no problems related things. I normally keep the messy toys on the Hager shelves in her it that she needs to ask for them. By doing this, we encouraged her to play and pull things back when she's done before moving into the next activity is more. Kids don't need specific toys to have fun. There are many fun activities that you can do with the things that you already have in your home. Maybe yes, that our daughter loves our building force with blankets and cushions, building obstacle racist using the couch, cherish cushions, yoga mat and the Ottoman. Blame with rice beans. Stress, measuring cups and bowls, playing with empty boxes, playing with water, etc. Yesterday, Samsung, half a clear conversation with family and friends about physical gifts to avoid being flooded with staff, especially every Christmas and every birthday party. I have witnessed firsthand. People working really, really hard to get their credit under control, create systems and establish healthy routines to tie the app. When Christmas or Abernathy party arrives, they get way too many gifts and they don't have space to give them all. They go back to square one facing a lot of clutter. They need to deal with. Again, feeling very emotional and very guilty to let these things. It'll create a safe home environment so that you can relax and don't worry about deleting or one's getting hurt or breaking something important to you. When it comes to close, make sure you place everything accessible to them so that they can participate in getting dressed, putting their jacket on, putting shoes on, etc. In our case with our daughter Eva, I changed the glossary layout. Lower. Some of these shares are lowered the hanging back so that she can read it easily. She keeps her jacket hanging with little hangers and she has through little beams on the shelves with nice picture labels where we keep her pants, T-shirt, insert and shocks and underwear. She now can help us put lonelier way. She can go and choose where she wants to wear. And she doesn't make a mess with these beans anymore. I also instead I got hunger in her room at her hate where she keeps her house. Good. Tower. I instead another code hunger at her hate by the entry door where she keeps her jacket, raincoat and rain pat. And we have our shoe rack at the entry door where she has a dedicated shelf for her shoes and boots, and a couple of beans on top, where she keeps her admittance hats and sacrilegious. Create a sports section where they can read things easily and put things back easily. We have a little shed in the backyard where we keep her bicycle curse could her hair bicycle trailer had helmet and other outside choice. She gets to choose and get what she wants and she always love to put things back, help them be able to participate in the kitchen with you by having a kitten Stan, where they can reach the counter and table easily. We have a kitten, Stanford, EVA, and she loves watching as cook. She participating, making smoothies, making pizza, baking, and make it hot chocolate. Help them be more independent in their bathroom by having a stand and placing thinks they need accessible. Like the toothbrush there comb. It said Try and keep bath toys contained in a BIM. Make tidying up a part of their bath diner. Keep an ongoing donation pile handy to drop anything you no longer want or need any closer down to small shoes that don't fit, et cetera. By being proactive, you will save yourself time, space, and clutter. Keep any extras ambiguous, close you may be planning on using in the future in boxes or beans in store. It said, I reminded in your calendar, Use your local library if possible, to get variety of works. Movies, CDs. Our daughter loves using the library, picking up new books or movies. And she also lens not to get attached to fix. Create a cozy corner where your little ones can go when they need a timeout. We lend this strategy recently from our daycare. We create that cozy corner with a nice cushion, nice blanket, summer fair February choice, and friends. It's really cute when she asks that she wants to go to heck ACI corner to calm down. I personally think that we all need a cozy coordinate. Include it. Don't you think? I hope these ideas motivate you to create a playful and tell friendly home while maintaining your own style and identity. At the same time, if you went to see some pictures or videos of how I integrate these ideas in my home. Let me not in their classroom and they will share some with you. Also, feel free to share any questions you may have about your specific situation so that they can superview further. Feel free to listen to this session anytime you need a refresher or feel overwhelmed by toys. Also, anytime you feel ready and have their time and energy to implement new ideas, I only went to encourage you to set that remainder in your calendar to revisit your intentions. The way you feel and how the leader wants interact with your home will be a nice reminder to do something new and exciting again. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we're going to dive into your living room, Greg room and entryway. Anti-addition. I hope you have animation rest of your day. 24. Living Room, Rec Room, & Entryway: Hello. Welcome back to day 23. Thank you for being here. In the last session, Julianne, about toys and play rooms. To this session is all about your living room, rec room, and entryway. You are going to learn how to decode it and organize these three common spaces in your home. And how to create a healthy flow so that you and your loved ones can enjoy equality time and fun entertainment. As always, I recommend that you follow the three main steps that you are ready know by heart. These steps are awareness, action and maintenance. The awareness stage is very, very important before getting started, the cratering, organizing and beautifying the spaces. Why? Because these are common spaces that you share with your family and any other patient that lives with you. Clear communication is essential to make sure that the space is facilitate all the activities that you and your loved ones and joy. Remember to have a family meeting to give everybody the opportunity to speak up, share what they like about this space. Now, they are frustrated with the activities that they would like to do and any other feedback they may want to share. If doing a meeting is not easy, yes, invite them to do this exercise on their own and share with you the least. Once everybody has shared, it's time to figure it out what the happy balance is so that everybody is happy with the end result. If your family members or people you live with, don't care or don't want to participate. That's fine. At least you gave them the opportunity to speak up? Yes. Confirm with them that they are okay with you doing this process on your own and they won't be upset or resend it. Once you have all these information, It's time to the credit spaces. You can get started by doing a couple of waves, looking around the space. I'm making a mental inventory of what's in there. Remember to think in categories like books, papers, movies, clothes, etc. You can sort things I like together. You can make pirates on the floor or the table or the couch. You can move things that belong in a different space or create a pile and move them altogether. At the end. Assess everything you have and decide based on your needs and your family needs, what you are keeping up when you are letting go off. Keep an ongoing To Do list of all the tasks that will come up. Don't try to remember them all in your mind. For example, GIF movie Back to my sister. Take DVD player to be repaired, etc. Once you are left only with the things that you are keeping, it's time to organize them by creating permanent homes for every item. Think of stations like reading station, movie station, relaxing a meditation station, etc. Keep in mind all the activities you and your family wanted to do in this space and make sure that you create a station for them. For example, you enjoy reading, relaxing, meditating, and watch movies in the living room. You have space in the couch. You have a nice movie station, nice bookshelf to give your books, nice coffee table to set your tea or coffee. Uncomfortable pillow to meditate on, and ACASI blanket to keep you warm and comforted. Your partner loves watching movies and doing parcels. You already have the movie station and we'll create a passive station that includes a table. I space to store the parcels and a good light. If you don't have a space for a dedicated partial table, maybe they compromise will be to have one of those rolling Matt for puzzles. Your son asked to be able to play video games with his friends, be able to read his magazines and books, and be able to watch movies. You can then create a video game station and a magazine and book station for him. This could be on the same bookshelf you have, or maybe giving him a whole shelf. Depending on the volume, you can decide what the best fit may be. Regarding playing video games with friends. You may also suggest that that's an activity he can do in his room. If that's an option. Your daughter would love to be able to do crafts and yoga. You will create a craft station. You can look at what kind of crafts she's into, what she would need to do every craft. For example, she may do watercolor. So she needs paint, paper, brushes, a glass with water, and a hairdryer. You may be able to fit all these things in a beam and label it watercolor. You can even invite head to create a colorful label. If she does all the activities, find out what she needs for each one, and create a bean that can be labeled. The craft station may be a shelf with all the bins leaf on. And she can use the common table and clean up after she's done. Maybe you have space for a dedicated table for hair. And she can store all these beams and then need that table. If space is limited, maybe she can do that activity in her bedroom. As you'll see, there are many options that will fit different environments. You will also need your station. Maybe you have space under the couch to store, had yoga mat, head blocks, have strap, and any other equipment that she may need. Maybe there is a better suitable space for her to do her yoga. This is just one example of a family with different needs. And how they process may look like once you have organized and create station for everybody's activities, It's time to beautify the space by the spraying, things that you love and things that your family may love. You can do all these process alone or you can invite your family members to help you. It really doesn't matter as long as everybody's on the same page and everybody feels heard and included. Once you have created this space, you want it where you and your family feel well, it's time to test it. Allow yourself time to experience how the space functions and feel free to tweak and change anything you need. The only thing you have left to do is to enjoy the space and maintain it. It's important for all the family members to participate in the maintenance by putting things back in its station when they are finished. Cleaning this space should be simple and easy. This formula IS shared. Works for any space in your home, including your living room and your rec room. I would like to talk now about your entryway into waste are very important spaces in every house. They are a hotspot and they tend to get credit very quickly. Anytime you enter your home, you will take off your shoes, your jacket, you remittance your hat. You will put down your keys, your backpack, your purse, the mail that you just collected, partial that was outside the door, etc. And these will repeat with every person that lives in the house. As you can imagine, if you don't have a good system in place and good habits to put things where they belong. Your entryway will look like a war zone. This is why it's so important to assess your specific needs and how much space you need for your shoes, your jackets, and any other thing that we live there. You may be able to use shoe racks called Rags. You may have an entry close it, or maybe you can authorize a bench where you can see it and it has stored at underneath. The first step as always, is to become aware of your needs. The credit, everything you no longer need, everything that doesn't belong there, and then create permanent homes for the things that you are keeping. My specific case, for example, we do have a shoe rack by the door. We also have an extra shoe rack inside our entry. Close it on top of the shoe rack and data two beans for our daughters, mittens, hats, scarves, and sunglasses. Within half. A code drug for me and my wife with four baskets on top for each, where we keep our hat, mittens, scarves, sunglasses, IT, etc. There is another code drag for our daughter that she can reach. This solution works well for us. With a process, any mail that we get immediately or set it on our desk, we don't get a lot of mail. My ratio of our bills on paperwork comes through email. I hope this session gave you some further insight on how to get started the clattering, organizing and BUT find these common spaces with intention and confidence. Now is the time for you to take action. You're ready. I know you have questions about your specific situation. I invite you to share them in the course classroom. You can share as many questions as you need. And I promise I will support you with further ideas and strategies. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to the credit and organize your basement and your attic. Until then, I hope you have animation rest of your day. 25. Basement & Attic: Hello, Welcome back to day 24. Thank you for being here. In the last session, we cover your living room, rec room, an entryway. Today's session is all about your basement and attic. Basements and attics are normally one of the most overwhelming spaces to the credit. Due to the amount of staff sitting there. The bigger they are, the more crowded they get. This is y. Into this session, you are going to learn how to deal with these two spaces with intention and with confidence. Awareness is always the first step, as you may know by now, it's important to reflect about how you are planning to use a space. Is it going to be a storage space? You planning on creating an exercise space? Maybe your office. Maybe you want to get back to play music or Lynn, a new instrument that may be your main usage of that space. Maybe you are planning on doing a combination of a few activities and also stoney things. Whatever you decide it has to feel aligned with you. Ideally, you will feel excited when envisioning this space finished the way you want it. Sometimes you may not have a clear picture yet of what you really want. And you feel a node going through your belongings and creating space will help you move forward. I remember one time where we were helping a gentleman organize his beautiful home. He wanted our help in different spaces. And after having a conversation with him, he mentioned starting in the basement several times, that space was very important for him. He mainly use it as a storage space. He said that by starting there, he will feel better and more confident to then keep going with the rest of his house. He said that the basement is like the gods of his house. And by starting there, he will be cleansing his home, creating space for other things to be able to be stored at easily. And he will then move forward with the rest of his home. And that's what we did. I had another family with an addict space. For them. The idea of space will include 1 third of storage for seasonal items, Christmas, Halloween, and other staff that they didn't want to store in their basement. And two-thirds of this space will be a yoga studio to practice and record videos and share them online. We created the storage space with shares. To optimize the vertical space. We use beings with clear labels. And wind storm occurred in road with some nice curtains to separate the storage area from the US studio. This visual separation really, really helped set the right environment in her studio. I hope these examples help you reflect about your own situation and find out what feels more aligned with you. Remember to follow the three-step formula that you have, land awareness, action, and maintenance. And don't forget to include others in the process unless this is your space. Now, I would like to guide you through a practice to help you get clear on your needs and share with you some extra practical steps to get your basement and adding the clutter organized and beautified. Please get in a comfortable position. And let's get started. Let's get started by taking a couple of deep breaths. Please feel free to close your eyes if you can. I want you not to visualize your basement or your attic. I recommend you choose one and repeat this session again with the other space. Visualize yourself standing in the middle of that space. Look around, you. Start in one corner of the room and do a 360 degree wave absorbing everything that they sitting in that space. Notice how you feel. Any emotions, tensions that may show up along the way? Yes. Notice them. Keep breathing deeply. Observe them. You don't have to do anything with them right now. Keep moving around until you come back to the same corner. Yes. Did a full set. Now that you are aware of your space and how you feel about it, It's time to get clear on how you would like to use this space. Going to be storage. Would you like to exercise? Maybe you want to have a quiet place to read, play music, do crafts. Maybe it will become a fan playroom for your kids. Keep exploring ideas and see which one resonates with you the most. Once you connect with the idea. Once you connect with the ideal use of the space, I invite you to. Adapt your fingers. Visualize this space. Finished. How does he look like? How do you fill in the space now? What can you do that you couldn't do before? How is this new space going to impact your life? Who else is going to benefit from this change? Stay in these feelings for a little bit. Enjoy them. Keep breathing and visualizing yourself, doing what you really want to do. If you are having a hard time visualizing and you like clarity. Imagine how much more clarity you will receive once you get started. Assessing your belongings, organizing them, letting go off only the things that you don't need. Beautifying the space with the things that bring you joy. If you are experiencing anxiety or feeling very overwhelmed. Guest doing this practice, It's okay. Sometimes this is a sign that we need more time in the awareness stage. Before starting this process, it's important to get clear on why you want to declare it and organize the space. What are your reasons? Is it really necessary? Are you ready to face all the emotions that may arise when facing your belongings? Is there a better and easier space in your home to get started with you being forced to do these buy orders. If it doesn't feel right to you, do another buddies can close your eyes, breathe comfortably and deeply. Notice your emotions, explore them, question them. Stay in silence a little bit. If it's emotion and allow space and time to gain clarity. It's okay to feel this way. You are making a lot of progress. It's okay to take more time to cope with all these new emotions that are arising for you. Now. Let me share with you a real example from a patient that was struggling with her basement and all the emotions that were showing up for her. She's a member of my community and her experience has inspired many to begin with themselves and with others going through this process. These are her words. In my case, I was sharing goals with a neuropsychologist. I am working with for a TBI, traumatic brain injury. I had identified the basement as a stressor that produce strong emotions for me. He asked me what steps I needed to take and I did not know how to answer or where to begin. But I ignored it, that I felt frozen, stuck. He told me to visualize what this room will look like when it was done. I was in a puddle of tears. The anxiety that surface was phenomenon. I went home and spend days go into the basement, looking at it and walking away. Then one day I understood that moving my parents items stored there reminded me that they had left Canada for their retirement and I somehow felt left behind. Hey, that was a powerful insight. I understood that I needed to honor my grief. I stood there, cried, decided to reclaim the space, and walked away. I was fortunate to have the support of a BSW personal support worker to keep me company as I process the credit over several sessions. I am not done. I do it in small doses. But every time I stand back and see the progress, it reduces my anxiety and I feel more comfortable that life moves on. I hope this real story helped you understand that sometimes our physical spaces and all our belongings can trigger very, very deep emotions, sometimes too painful to go with. All at once. Your journey will be unique and you are the one who knows best, what feels good, and what's too much. I invite you to keep exploring, keep becoming aware, and keep taking action in wherever pays feels right to you. Let's now dive into some practical steps to follow once you are ready to take action. Sort by category. If that's easier, store equipment for different activities together, like camping, sports, hobbies, seasonal stuff. Christmas, halloween papers, photos, etc. If you have a lot of volume, gets started in one corner and start hiding what you have done. Keep the cleric contained in a clear area. You can cover the credit with a blanket. In the meantime, if you are doing this process in several sessions, how much time are you willing to dedicate? Do you need support? Be realistic and generous. Reward yourself after each session with something special, I put items you use more often accessible. If you run into paperwork in boxes full of paper, put all of it together and come back to doing paper. Once you are spaces organized, paper, it takes a long time. And I don't recommend you to paper. At the same time that you are organizing your space. There is a session in this course about paper. If you find emotional items that you are storing because you can get rid of them, put them all together enough to deal with later, pile, and keep going with the things that you are confident about. Don't get stuck trying to decide about things that trigger you. If you have a big amount of unwanted items you want to donate, make sure you arrange for pickup or for transportation prior to your it to open up space or move them to your garage or another location temporarily, if possible. It is okay to display art, photos, trophies, and any other mementos in your attic and basement, even if they are unjust steward area. I have seen a lot of smiles after hanging things my clients loved. They told me that they never thought about doing this. And now every time they go into that space, they are welcomed by a nice memory. Labeled anything you store in your space with the date. What is it? And set a reminder in your calendar to revisit this item in the future if necessary. If you are storing items for someone else, give them a deadline or limit how much space they use. It has to be a win-win situation. You have to feel good about storing them. If you really need this space. It is not your responsibility to store stuff for others. Create dedicated space for each family member if needed, they will need to deal with their own items, are made their own decisions about what they want to keep and what they want to let go. Don't leave any unpack boxes. Assess them, open them, confront the contents and how you feel. If they are too intense for you right now. Please all the items together in a bean or area, labeled them and set a reminder to revisit them later. Don't get stuck with it. Keep going with other things. You will notice that the more you progress, the more confident you will become, and the easier it will be for you to make decisions. You chefs to optimize your vertical space and keep things aboveground. In case there is off-roading embarrassment. If you are selling items, you can keep these items for sale temporarily in your basement or attic. Use masking tape and number them. If you have many items for sale, this way you will find them easily. I hope this session help you gain clarity and practical steps to declutter, organized, and beautify your attic and your basement. It's normal to have questions about your specific situation. And I am looking forward to supporting you in the course classroom. Please share your questions there. I will be delighted to be a part of your journey. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to declare, organized and beautify your garage. Until then, I hope you have animation rest of your day. 26. Garage: Hello, Welcome back to day 25. Thank you for being here. In the last session, Julian, strategies to the credit and organized your basement and attic. Today we are diving deeper into your garage. If you have one, of course, if you don't, this session we'll also learn new things to use with all their spaces in your home. The garage is the most convenient space in the house too? Yes. Put stuff down, especially heavy and big items that don't fit somewhere else. And thanks to the width later, this session will help you design a garage that fits your specific needs. The intention is not always to park a car in sight. I would like to invite you to think about why you went to the character garage. What are your reasons? Please name them. It may help to think about during this higher intention for your garage, parking the car, working out, using tools, store it, gardening, tiny home, studio, appli room. What are your current frustrations? And what are your wishes? If you could snap your fingers and have your garage finished? How does it look like? You can also think about the current equipment that you have for every activity that you do regularly. What activities do you regularly do? Cutting the grass, gardening, playing hockey, biking, woodcarving, exercise. Who uses the garage? What do they want and need? What frustrates them? Having a career conversation and answering all these questions together will help you get on the same page about how you all want your garage to look and feel like. What emotions show up for you when you think of your garage? Do you feel extreme anxiety or overwhelmed? Do you feel uncertainty and lack of gravity? You afraid of what you are going to find and how you will react to it isn't necessary to do the garage. Now, he said any other space in your home that you could do more easily? I always recommend you to get started with the spaces that fill easiest for you. Spaces that you can start and finish so that you can get that visual transformation. And you get your decision-making muscle activated. The more decisions you make during this decluttering process, the more confident you will feel and the more commodity you will gain. This is why I always want to make sure that you are ready to tackle your garage, that this is the right time for you to get it done. Garage normally contains a lot of stuff. Many times each lots of tools, lots of things duty than one to deal with things that you are storing for someone else. You may not have a clear understanding of their expectations. Or you may be avoiding that necessarily conversation. Maybe you are storing stuff from a loved one that is no longer with you and facing those belongings is too painful for you. Maybe you are staring at boxes that you'd never unpacked when you move into your home. I just want you to know that if you feel any strong emotions, they are normal, they are necessary. The awareness stage in this space is crucial for success to happen. Let's do an exercise together to get you started. I invite you to get comfortable. Make sure you have pen and paper handy. We're going to try something different in this session. As you notice, I like changing the awareness practice in every session a little bit so that you get different ideas and different approaches. You can then mix up the ones that feel right to you. So each okay if some practices feel better than others in this course, think of it as a sampling menu that you are exploring. As you sample every option, you will make a mental note like, I liked that. That was weird but interesting. I didn't like that. That felt uncomfortable. But I know it's necessary. You see, It's allowing yourself time and space to be curious, to explore and to learn what you like and what feels good to you. There is no right or wrong way of doing this. And you may change your approach. As you feel like. Feel free to close your eyes anytime it feels good during this practice, I want you to direct your attention to your garage. Visualize yourself opening the door and seeing everything that you have inside. Notice how you feel, what emotions are coming up for you. Ec2 excitement to get started transforming your garage. Is it overwhelmed at the amount of time you will need an older decisions require from you. Is it anxiety about the conversations you will need to have with others involved in this process with you. That mix of excitement and overwhelmed at the same time. Whatever they are, led them be observe them. Notice how you feel. Keep breathing deeply in and out. As you do these practice. And use your Excel to allow for any tension to leave your body. Use a pen and paper to write down worse to describe your feelings. Like excitement, overwhelmed, anxiety, lag of gravity, boredom, etc. It's okay to feel more than one emotion. And the same time. You could write, examine and overwhelmed. Make sure you own everything that you feel. Keep writing down as many emotions as you feel until you feel calm. Indeed, you can spend some time reflecting about these emotions after this session, or even pause the audio now if you feel like it, brighten them down will also help you reflect in the future about how much progress you have made. Or to identify that you are facing the same emotions or different ones. Now, I want you to think of the intention that you have in mind for your crush. Take a moment to think about it, to connect with it. Then I invite you to write down words to describe your intention or intentions. You can have more than one. We are not doing any action it. So you will have time to reflect about these, prioritize, change and do whatever you need to do until it feels right for you. You could write something like storage, biking, garbage, and gardening. If you don't have clarity about specific activities yet, but you know how you want to fill in your own garage. You could write something like clarity, space and all other. There is not a right or wrong way of doing this. Whatever you Brad, he's going to be perfect. And yes, what you need right now. Once you have your intentions in your paper, I want you to visualize yourself taking action. What would your first step be? Your second step? How long do you think it will take you? Would you do it all at once in one weekend or maybe spend a few hours times. Would you enjoyed getting help? Anyone come to mind? Yes. Think about the logistics and break down in your piece of paper. You're required action. Don't worry about the older yet. Yes, break them all down. When you finish grading. Keep visualizing yourself, actually doing the sorting, the clattering, letting go, organizing and finding homes for every item, creating stations, and beautifying your garage, displaying things that you love and things that you don't have space for in your home. Once you are complete, sit in silence for a bit longer and observe what comes up for you. This is an intentional focus meditation to help you the creditor organized and beautify your garage. You can ask something like, what do I need to know to create the garage had really want them to sit in silence and observe what comes up. You can close your eyes if you want. Anytime an idea or a thought comes up, brightly down in your paper, don't worry about or there about perfection. About keeping a straight line. It doesn't matter right now. Yes, make sure you track everything that comes up for you. Let's stay here for a little bit. Once you feel complete, you can finish. This is celebrating your willingness to explore, to ask, and to listen for the answers. They are all inside of you. He guessed takes some practice to get them out and to avoid all the emotions to get on the way. Please be gentle and very patient with yourself. Progress is not always visible. Many times I know that the antenna process will take 75% of the time. The actual physical work will require only twenty-five percent of the time. These percentage of course meetings from case to case. This internal work is real and it is necessary. If you avoid this, you may find yourself feeling stack. And not knowing how to move forward. Every present moment is a great opportunity to get started with your internal process. You can do it. By now. You have your paper with all the emotions that came up for you. You have all the intentions you wrote down for your garage, and you have all the actions require for you to make this a reality. Now it's time for you to organize these ideas. Maybe you can rewrite them in whatever order makes sense to you and start taking action. These are some ideas and steps to help you declare they're organized and beautiful. Your crash. Follow the steps, awareness the creditor organized, beautifying. Don't forget the invisible work that you need to do in the awareness stage and allow time and space for it. If you are receiving help, make sure that they are aware and understand your needs. Don't keep delicate things like clothing, cardboard boxes, etc. If you are afraid of them getting spoiled due to moisture, mice and extreme temperatures. And if you have to use plastic beams with LET to protect them, optimize the usage of your vertical space by using shares, Hooks, ceiling, basic cost hangers, etc. Many families keep their garbage in the garage. If that's a gate for you, make sure you create an It's easy to use Garrett station. Think about all the activities you do and all the necessary equipment for every activity. Create zones and keep everything together. Place things accessible. Ideally, you will keep the things you use more often in the most convenient places. An option that some have used is to rent apart the world store at unit while they organize their garage. Communication with all people involved is essential to keep your seasonal items together, containing beans and labeled like Christmas decorations, Halloween decorations. Instagram, create a storage space for every family member if needed. Make sure everybody understands the boundaries. Create a maintenance plans to ensure that your garage is always in good shape. At least once a year, you may need to revisit your needs, your intentions, and any frustrations that you have noticed and books on time to tweak your garage. Anytime your lifestyle changes, your needs may change and you may need it change her garage around. For example, if you get started playing hockey and you are planning on keeping your hockey equipment in your garage, then you need to create a home for all your hockey equivalent. You may also need to have space to hang your staff to dry after each game. So be mindful of these new needs and said your space appropriately. I hope this session help you get motivated. Learn new strategies to use and half a clear document with all your feelings, intentions, and specific to-dos for you to follow and reflect. I know that you may have a 1000 questionnaires have audio garage. It's normal. And that's why we do have a course crash. To give you a space to share anything you need to borrow with any challenges you are facing, any celebrations of your progress and pretty much anything you feel like sharing. I will be honored to superview further. I can't wait to read what you share. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn more about how to the credit and organized small spaces. Until then, I hope you have animating rest of your day. 27. Getting Organized In A Small Home: Hello. Welcome back to day 26. Thank you for being here. In the past sessions, we have been talking about how to organize your garage or your basement and your attic. But many people don't have any of these spaces because they live in a very small home. Maybe you live in a very small apartment and you are wondering how to organize things when you don't have much space. This is y. Into this session, I want to cover some strategies to make the most of your small home. I am originally from Barcelona. And for me it was normal to live in a small apartment. I didn't have access to a garage, attic, or a basement. I had to learn how to make the most of every corner of every room. Now we live in a two bedroom apartment on the main floor of a house. We don't have a lot of space inside, but I do have access to an unfinished basement and illiterate shed. I have also lived in a camper van, a tray layer, and travel the world for over two years? Yes, carrying my backpack. During this trip that took me across countries like India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Egypt, and Peru. I had the opportunity to experience very different lifestyles and see how every culture uses that leaving space in such a different and creative way. The most amazing use of a space that I have ever seen, a Western Kashmir North of India, an entire family of six leaf in a square room no bigger than four by four meters or 12 by 12 feet. These rooms served as kitchen, living room with no tables and chairs. We just see it on the ground or on cushions and bedroom. Their bets were folded thin matrices that we're stuck in one coordinate. When I die my right, they will unfold them and sleep on the floor. As soon as they got up, they will fold them and put the bag in the corner. I know this is an extreme, but it was amazing to see how resilient they were and how much functionality they got out of the tiny space. After living in such extreme conditions. You really learn quickly what's essential and what's not. And this is a lifestyle philosophy that I always bring with me to every new home I move into. Since 2012, I have helped people organize very big homes and also very small homes, like a bachelor unit with all the little kitchen, living room and a bathroom, no bedroom. The bed was a morphing style bed that folded up into a cabinet. My honest opinion here is that with awareness and intention, you can create a beautiful, functional, clutter-free home. Doesn't matter the size. The smaller the space, the more limited UR for short on how much stuff you can own. But it's also a great opportunity to learn how to simplify your life and appreciate more experiences rather than physical items in your home doesn't define who you are. Your physical belongings don't define who you are. You can be happy owning very little. I have seen it myself in so many countries around the world. Entire families living on the streets in very little hats and always showing me a smile, always excited to share anything they had. An always excited to make you feel special. Was a great learning for me. I was sold, that I needed this and that and that to feel well. And I discovered that it's not necessary. You can get a lot of enjoyment of your belongings for sure. There is nothing wrong with that. But when space is limited, you can also be happy. Having less. Gratefulness is always a great place to get started when the criteria in your home and your life. Being grateful for what you have, embracing your current situation with love and accepting where you are right now is a great first step. If you are not accepting your current situation. If you are in denial, how is this emotion serving you? How is this mindset going to help you move forward? When you are always complaining about your situation, blaming yourself, and feeling negative about your current home situation. Nothing good can come out of this mix. When you own the other side, reflect about your current situation. Understand why you are where you are. Accept that this is you now and start setting new intentions for the future. That's way more empowering, isn't it? Instead of telling yourself something like, I hate my small home, there is no room to do anything in here. Or I will never be able to create a greater free home here. You can tell yourself something like, I am in the process of creating a cosine function at home. I feel great. I am learning new ways to keep my home, organize and creating new habits to maintain it. Exploring your options is also a very good way to accept your situation or change it if you really can. Maybe you have the option to move into a bigger space. If that's what you really want. Maybe there is a different neighborhood, different proteins, even a different country where you can have a different lifestyle. I will encourage you to explore any idea with curiosity and an open mind. You don't have to do anything with this idea. Gas, explore them and see how you feel. If the end result after doing this process is to stay where you are. I promise you that you will feel way more aligned with this decision. Maybe it is temporary for you, or maybe you enjoy living in a small home. Many people around the world are moving into tiny homes. These are huge movement around simplicity and smaller spaces. In my own community, the laws have changed to allow people to build tiny homes in their backyard, in garages and addicts. It's real. The need for affordable space is real. And many people want simplicity. When it comes to organizing smaller spaces, I still recommend following the same steps that you learned in this course. Awareness, action and maintenance. The main difference is that weren't space is limited, you need to become more intentional and prioritise more. By doing this, you will decide the activities that you really enjoy and limit how much equipment you need to facilitate those activities. Once you have the credit and let go of anything you don't need and anything that doesn't fit in your space. You will also need to optimize how you use every inch of your home. Some further strategies to help you master your small home are get clear on how you want to fill in your home and create a list of activities you would like to do. Soldier Korean belongings and decide what stays and what goes. Always be realistic about how much space you will need to facilitate a specific activity. Creates stations and designated spot for every category. For example, books, supplies, KTM where exercise, painting, shoes, etc. Test any change to implement for a few days and feel free to tweak it until it fits great. Once your home is functional, take the attempt to beautified by displaying the things that you love, adding colors, plants, and anything that makes this space, your space. Have fun with it. Say no to anything that doesn't fit your desired lifestyle. Don't allow staff to come into your home unless you have the space, the time, and the energy to deal with it. Add extra shares in every closer than cabinet to optimize the vertical space. I always find a lot of wasted space inside kitchen cabinets. Close it. And it's amazing how much more things you can fit in there. You can also add a dresser withdrawals inside your closet. Using hooks and contracts to be able to hang things on the world behind doors and inside the closet. When looking at your kitchen, for example, you will reduce the number of max plates, pots and pans, and any other key thing where you have to the minimum, you will create a habit to watch this right away. After using them and putting them back. By doing this, you will save space in having multiples of everything. When looking at your closet, you may explore the idea of creating a capture wardrobe. Basically having very detailed options that can be combined in many different ways so that you still look great and have fun while having weigh less volume of clothes. You will also do laundry more regularly. The maintenance of your small home is more critical to follow to ensure that credit that Sam built up quickly. To be honest, the smaller the space, the more you will notice things out of place. So it is more noticeable. You may take faster action that you would in a bigger space. Use different size bins to contain all your items in categories and label them. Using beans can help you stack them vertically easily. Access your things easily, especially all the things that are small. For example, you can use beans in your bathroom to contain your First Aid, hair staff, extra medicines, shaving. You can have bent inside your kitchen cabinet to contain tea, coffee spaces, and any other loose items. You can use bigger beans to store your hobbies like painting, crafts, sewing. When do this I to do one of these activities. You can just pull the pin out and use your table to work on. When you are done. You can put everything back in each bin and put it away. You can stack these fins on top of each other easily and you will always access them. Conveniently. Create multi-functional spaces that can serve different purposes. Use a folding table and folding chairs. When I lived in Barcelona, my partner and I will just eat in our kitchen counter using tools, tools. When we had this, we will then open up a folding table and folding chairs. These help us create a room we're living room. Another option is to bring your own chair or sit on the ground if that's cool with your friends. Question your bed. If space is really limited for you and you are looking for ways to open up space. Maybe you don't need to have a permanent embed always taken up so much space. Explore the different options of hidden bit, murphy bit, bank bed with a desk underneath, etc. There is a very nice feeling to this implicitly that a small home rings. It's very easy to maintain, very easy to clean. It can help you open up time and space to more creative activities that don't require a lot of staff. It may invite you to visit family and friends more often, to spend more time outdoors, to travel. If your life situation requires you to live in a small home, you can still make the most out of it and create a beautiful lifestyle. I can't wait to find out how your home looks like after you implement all these ideas, you can do it. I would love to be a part of your journey and support you. So please share how it goes in the course classroom and ask any questions you may have. I love reading from you. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I'm looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn how to deal with books, crafts, and Hobbes. Until then, I hope you have an amazing result here. They are. 28. Books, Crafts, & Hobbies: Hello, Welcome back today 27. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you will learn how to the credit and organize your small home. Into the session, you are going to learn how to the credit and organize books, crafts. And hope is that you can actually access things easily. Many went to push through their hobbies, but they don't have a space to actually do them. This space is very crowded. In this session, you will be able to design and create your graphs room where your creativity will flow. Are you ready, unexcited? Let's get started talking about books. For some, books are such an important part of their lives. They loved them and they want to buy and keep every single one they can find. For others, they like reading, but they don't need to own the books. They are happy to utilize the library. Borrow books from family and friends or by them and then pass them along to someone else. It's important to understand your relationship with books. Books also take space and it's important to get clear on how much space you are willing to dedicate two books. Sometimes the actual physical space that you have available for books will dictate the volume that you allow yourself to have. You can also increase your book library by adding extra bookshelves. If that's an option for you. If books are emotional for you, I recommend you leave books until the end of your decluttering process and keep moving forward with other categories that are easier for you. You can keep them all in one place. You could use medium-sized boxes or beans and stack them up to minimize how much space they take. Once you declare it and organize your home, you can come back to books and you will have more confidence and more credit about how you feel about them. How much physical space you really have. And want to dedicate two books, the best space or spaces in your hub to keep them. You may be even ready to read some or all of them go. You can donate them so that someone else can love them again. There is no right or wrong answer here it is your choice. Some strategies for you to follow our set your intention and remind yourself of why you are doing this process. For example, during intention was to be able to do more graphs. But your space is full of books. As your shelf. Books more important for me than crafts. As yourself, AC is a good time to do. These. Are the books on the way. Do I need this space? Is book clutter bugging me. Maybe you have other priorities in your life and books are not on the way right now. Or maybe you need to deal with your book slowly and you set a goal of dealing with ten or 20 books every week. There is no right or wrong formula here. Whatever you choose, make sure that you are moving forward. Even if it's very slowly and celebrate every single window. Remember that books don't define who you are. How easy, easy to get a book if you really needed. These can help you let go of the fear of needing them in the future. Is that anyone else involved? Do they have books to do you need to create boundaries on how much space each special gets. Creating room in your bookshelf can help you bring new books into your life. If space is limited and you have more books than storage space, gets started putting back the books that you love the most first, until you run out of space. Give books away is within tension. You can feel each book and see if a person comes to mine. Then give that book to that specific person with a note saying, I thought of view because I feel this book can be of service to you. Now, let that go with love or no expectations. Remind the person that they are free to do whatever they want with that book. Explored the idea of reading books, the data using a Kindle therapies. Ask a friend or family who has one, if you could borrow it for a few days to give it a try. You can also listen to audio books on the goal. Using your local library is a great option to have access to books without having to store them. In my local library. I can access books, audio books, on Kindle books. I can also access movies, music, and even board games. How cool is that? I hope these strategies help you the credit and organize your books with intention. Let's move now into hobbies and crafts. I have helped a lot of people who'll of graphs and half a load of different hobbies. I have to say that the majority of the people I help are very creative people and they have the ability to do many activities. Many times they find themselves lacking the systems to keep all this stuff and equipment that every activity requires. Organized. This is why I wanted to dedicate a full session to this topic when thinking about Hobbes crafts and designing jewelry and craft room, it's really helpful to become aware of all the activities we want to do and all the equipment and supplies that every activity will require. Once you know this is becomes easier to find out how much space you need for every activity and how to separate and properly store everything you will need. Let's do an exercise together to figure out all the activities that you are currently doing, or activities that you want to start doing in your homework. Please grab pen and paper and get in a comfortable position. When you are ready to take a couple of deep breaths and start thinking of the crabs and hobbies that you would like to do in your home. I invite you to start a list of all the activities that come to mind. Once you have them all down in paper, I invite you to bright all the supplies and equipment that you will require to do each craft. It's holey. It can look something like this. Activity type. Playing my guitar, equipment and supplies, comfortable chair or stool. Guitar, guitar case, music Stan, music book, capable, phone, and headphones to listen to my music. Somehow these will require a lot of different supplies. This is why so many people get confused and overwhelmed. Visualize yourself doing the specific hobby and keep track of the things you use a neat. Once you have done this with each hobby, craft and activity, you have a pretty specific list that will help you decide how to best organize things and what space to use these hobbies. I want you now to visualize your home. Visualize every space, and feel, what space may suit each hobby best. For example, you can visualize your living room and the beautiful window with nice light and a nice view. And it feels great to play your guitar there. So maybe a good fit for you. Maybe to create your music station in that window. You may create space for a comfortable chair or a stool. You can set up your guitar and your music Stan and designate a permanent place to keep your music book, capable headphones, and any other things that you may need. You will then test this idea, tweak it if it doesn't feel good Once it flows nicely and you enjoy the experience, your only job is to maintain it and create a time to enjoy playing your guitar. You can do the same process with each hobby that you brought down. If you find out that you want to do a few hobbies in the same space and don't have the space to store the surprise and equipment required. As yourself, if you can optimize the space somehow to create new storage space, can you add a chef? I hope behind the door. Can you add an extra shelf to an existing cabinet? Can you use beings and stack them? If the answer is no, then prioritize what activity you do there. Move the other one to another space. Smaller this space you live in, the more intentional you need to be, and the more you need to prioritize and degraded. By now you have a list with all the hosts you want to do in your home. You have a list of the supplies and equipment that each hobby requires. You have chosen a space where you will do this hobby and store all the necessary supplies and equipment. In. The last thing I would like you to do is a walk around your home. If you are not home now, post the audio and finish it when you are there. Start at the entry door and start walking around each space slowly. Pay attention to everything you see and notice if you see supplies or equipment that is not on your list, maybe you forgot a specific activity that you do and you can add it to your list. Or maybe those things have clarity to you now and you feel confident to donate them. You can also start visualizing yourself doing the activities that you brought down in its space and noticing how you feel. Maybe you get ideas on where to store things. What it feels nicer to see it, where the light is better. Yes, notice how you feel and what do you see as you move around your home. By doing this tour, you will make sure that you didn't forget anything and you will get more crediting apart where it feels good to do It's hobby. I celebrate your willingness to do this exercise with me. I hope you found clarity. I invite you to do this exercise anytime you're always change or anytime you feel like your home is not flowing, the way you would like to share this space with someone else. Invite him to do this exercise, and then get together and share each other's list. It will be a fun activity and you will understand each other's needs. Is higher when it comes to holidays. You may even start shedding a hobby together. Some other strategies to help you create a good flow for your crabs and hobbies are, once you get clear on the hobbies, you would like to do, get started with the sorting and the cratering first. Let go of everything you no longer need and only keep what you are going to use. Organize your staff by category type or hobby type. Think about kinda garden and how little kids are able to tie the app fast because they understand the system and it's fun. Create stations like reading station, the drawing station, the music station, etc. If you have space, you can designate a room, a table, or an area for it hobby. If you don't have space, you can use your kitchen island or your existing dining table or desk to work on your hobbies. You can also use a folding table that you can move around easily and fall down when you don't need it. You can designate a bin for each hobby where you can store all the supplies and equipment. Beans can stack nicely on top of each other. You can also dedicate a specific bookshelf drawer or any other space you have available for every hobby. Whatever system you use, make sure you don't mix supplies and put things back when you finish with a specific hobby. Cleric can appear very quickly. When that happens, I'm putting things back become way more time-consuming and confusing. Use labels and include everybody in the process, especially your children. Teach them how to put things back. If there are several people in your home doing several hobbies, make sure you do the practice together and set healthy boundaries. It's important to clearly communicate each other's needs, support each other, and find a happy balance. Be realistic about how much time you have and how many hobbies you pursue. It's more fulfilling to pursue one or two hobbies with intention than having six Hobbies competing for your time, space and creativity, and leaving you feeling guilty and overwhelmed. Less is more. You can also rotate hobbies. Make sure you maintain your space by putting everything back when you finish. I'm regularly decluttering anything you don't use or use labels to remind yourself and others who are things go? If children are involved, invite them to draw their own labels and color them. They will be very happy to follow the system if they created it themselves. You can also print fan labels too. Labels can be removed once the system becomes a habit. If you have a big volume of spare supplies for a specific hobby, you can store them in a different space in your home. If you have the space and always shop from home first. If you don't have the extra storage space, you may want to sell it or give it away or donated. It's not worth it to credit your space we thinks you don't need or use, especially if they're easily accessible. Your intention is to be able to pursue your hobbies easily, not to store staff that will prevent you from enjoying your space. I hope these strategies and the practice you did help you create your desired creative a space or spaces in your home. Remember that you have access to the course classroom to share about your specific situation and the specific questions that you may have. I am here to support you along your journey. Feel free to share your biggest takeaway from today's session are what you are more excited to try next. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn more about office papers and finances. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 29. Office, Papers, & Finances: Welcome back to day 28. Thank you for being here. In the last session, you'll learn how to deal with books and crafts. The session is all about helping you tell them your paper clutter and create an inviting office space. Paper is one of the most challenging kinds of clutter. You may be able to declare that a whole room in a few hours. You may only be able to work through one to two inches of paper in one hour. After the catering a room, you may feel accomplished and empower with a visual transformation. After spending a few hours dealing with paper clutter, most likely you won't notice the difference. You may feel frustrated, confused, overwhelmed, and exhausted. I still remember back in 2012 when I got started helping others the credit and organized in one of the sessions that we did, our client wanted to organize her entire home. Somehow. We got started in her filing cabinet. Her husband was there at the beginning and left for a few hours. When he came back, his comment was, what have you guys been doing all this time? It looks the same. This is when I learned that getting started the cratering papers is not a good idea. It's very important to create a visual transformation for you to stay motivated and excited. And also for you to be able to experience what are the criteria and organized space can look and feel like. This is why in most cases, I always recommend that you organize your physical space first, then tackle your papers all at once as a separate project. By now, you most likely have the credit pretty much every space in your home and you have collected all the papers you need to sort, check, and file all in one place. I recommend containing all the papers in boxes. Beans are filing cabinet, shelf, desk, or table that you don't use. Any other space where they are not going to be in your way. Now it's time for me to share with you an efficient method to optimize your paper flow and free your space of paper files. Hopefully, these tips will help you conquer the paper credit and set up a function of paper management system that you feel comfortable using. I'm maintaining. Are you ready when dealing with paper? The same three-step process that you have Len applies here. Step one is awareness, step two is action, and step three is maintenance. During the awareness stage, it really helps to understand how your paper is flowing into your home and into your life. Making a lease or a diagram can be very helpful to be able to create a good paper flow. Let's do an awareness practice. Get comfortable. Take a couple of deep breaths. Close your eyes, and think about the different kinds of papers that flow into your home. Right now. I invite you to visualize your kitchen table, your kitchen counter, your desk, your living room table. Any other places where you have piles of papers? How did those papers get there? Who brought them? The necessary do you need to keep them? Yes. Where do you keep them and for how long can you recycle them? To shred them? Do you need to take any action on them? Is it possible to receive them by email? When confronting these piles of papers? How do you feel there any emotional attachment? Any specific emotional triggers that are showing up for you? Once you do this mental exercise, I invite you to do a tour of your home. Notice work papers leaf, observe the piles. Do you know what's in there? How do these pairs make you feel? Any other people involved in the paper flow? Now, I invite you to create your own list. For example, your lease can look like incoming papers, school papers and crafts, builds, Let us and postcards, junk mail coming with your mail. Subscriptions, you may receive a weekly or monthly newspapers and magazines, flyers, receipts from your expansion, manuals and warranty papers from devices and equipment you bought. Take some time to grab your own list down. Take another tour of your home and have a look at the different locations where you have paper binds. Make sure you find out what kind of papers they are and how they got there. Add them to your list. Post the audio until you create your list. By the end of this exercise, you will have. A teabag, the different ways paper float into your home and the different kinds of papers that you have. Once you become aware of this, creating a system and a good paper flow will become easier for you. You can then question every way paper gets into your home. You can change that if possible, to reduce the volume. Maybe you can have a recycling bin by the male and dropping there anything you don't need. When it comes to financial papers, it's important to know what you need to keep for how many years and why do you can let go off? If you are not sure, this awareness step includes you contacting your financial advisor, your accountant, your lawyer, and any other professional that can give you ugly at Hampshire. Once you have this information, you will feel very confident making decisions and knowing what you need to keep and for how long. For example, in our own case, when we started our own business, we had no idea. We contacted an accountant and the person who files our taxes. They gave us clear answers of the categories they needed to create in order to file our taxes properly. They also told us to 117 years of our records in case we get out of it. So that's how we structure our filing cabinet and our Excel spreadsheet to keep track of our expenses by category. When it comes to personality, we do have pretty much everything deta coming by e-mail to avoid paper creditor. And we only keep what's necessary to have a hard copy off. Not much really. During the awareness stage, he socially important to figure out where you are planning on storing your papers. How often you are planning on dealing with your papers? How much volume do you receive of each category? How much space are you willing to dedicate to store in papers and who else is included in the process. For example, in my family's case, we don't receive much paper by mail. Most bills are automated and if we receive anything in paper, we keep it until the end of the month unless it requires immediate action. At the end of the month, week lost the Montfort our business, and for our personal finances. Basically, we record any expenses and income in spreadsheets, one for business and for Bednar. And we will take any action required, paying bills and filing any papers in our filing cabinet. Doing this allows us to know how we're doing. We also avoid wasting time and stressing out about papers during the month. Both my wife at night and know how to cross the month. Once you complete the awareness state, it's time to take action dealing with all your existing papers and creating our papers system that you understand. These are show my specific steps that I normally follow when doing a paper session. The first goal should be to clear your spaces from paper. Making your spaces inviting and functional will empower you to use them. Clear in this space. Have really small box for important documents to take care of immediately, bills to pay, and other documents that require immediate action will go in this box. Half our recycling being an R to shred bin, ready. You can start a need to deal with papers in boxes or beans until you have the attempt to deal with them. You can label them and you can stack them nicely in the corner or out of the way in another store at area. Schedule attempt to deal with these papers later. Once you are ready to go through your paper, I recommend you set a space to work on high normally bring a folding table and have the different bins underneath so that it's easy to do in cycle to shred or to keep a cite papers that you have to take action on. I then we'll use another table, counters or spaced on the floor to start creating piles. You can use Post-its or masking tape to write the name of the categories. For example, you may find a water bill. You can create our utilities category or a water-based category. You choose the name and you can always change it after. Make sure that you choose names that come naturally to you. Don't try to follow a system with names that don't make sense for you. Be mindful of the time required to go through your papers. Ideally, you will work through all your papers, it all at once. Create the categories, and then file them. If you have a lot of volume, it may take you several sessions to get it done. If this is the case, yes. Be mindful that when you are certain papers, you are creating a temporary mise. Meaning you will have pilots around you and they will take space. If you don't have enough time to finish, make sure that you allow time to put things away. If you can. You can use a room or space in your home that you don't need to use temporarily so that you can close the door and come back when you are ready to keep going. You can also use a temporary filing system. You can use a banker's box are collapsible filing bugs. Or similar solution. Stack creating temporal folders with categories. You can always change them very easily as you will. Once your paper priorities done, you will know how much finding space you need. You can decide then if you require additional filing space. Don't forget to measure before purchasing any product. Some financial papers needs to be good for up to seven years. Some others you will need to keep them forever. Make sure to double-check with your accountant before discarding anything valuable. Keep a to-do list. Every time you find out paper that requires an action from you, make sure you add it to your list. Don't clutter your mind trying to remember everything. It's time later in your canada to deal with these things. You can reduce your paper by sending effort electronic or responded when possible, and answers grabbing from services that you no longer need. Most Ornish manuals and instructions can be found online. So you don't really need to keep them if you don't want to. You can digitize documents and store them on your computer or USA crowds. Please be aware of the time that this will require from you. Maybe you can start doing it from now on. Some tools to do this could be using the tiny scanner free app or a similar product. When using the Utah solutions to store your files, make sure to create a simple system, easy to follow. If some papers are stored physically, make sure to use the same labeled in the IDA files as you do in your paper filing system. Consider using your local library system for books, magazines, and movies. This will help you reduce the clutter. Half a home for all the paper that comes in, goes out. You have to deal with having a command center could be an idea. Make sure to involve everybody in the system. Microsecond, easy and convenient. Get a small shredder if you have space implicit conveniently where you can use it right away, store coupons altogether or use an app in your phone to avoid the overwhelm of trying to find them when you need them. Keep photos altogether and deal with them as a separate project. You will learn more about photos in the next session. Once you are done going through your papers and you have create a good flow, it's time to move into step three, maintenance. You decide how often do you do with your papers. Some people deal with them weekly and others monthly. There is no right or wrong approach here as long as the necessary actions are taken, timely, go back to your diagram where you have your list with incoming papers. Now you can develop a system to follow. This is an example of your incoming mail, stepwise. Papers arrived by mill. Step two, I take them and drop anything I don't need in the recycling bin. Step three, I only bring home where I really need and put them on my kitten basket of incoming papers. Step for every Friday, I will empty their basket, take any require action and fairly papers in my filing cabinet. This is an example of your kids cool papers and crafts. Step one. Your kids bring school papers and crafts and they draw them on the designated been on the kitchen counter. Step two, you take the papers to make sure there is nothing that requires immediate action. Steps, display any craft on the fruit, and put any other papers on your incoming papers been step for Winfrey t is full with too many crafts. Remove all their crafts and recycle them or store them in designated memento been. These are just two examples of a step-by-step process to follow. I invite you to create a step-by-step system for every paper category that you have on your list, you can draw the steps to if you feel like it will be easy for you to reflect about the system and share it with others. I hope this session will help you gain clarity and get motivated to the credit your paper. Also gain clarity about your financial and create an inviting office space. I invite you to share any specific questions you may have in the course classroom. I would love to be able to super you further with your paper decluttering. You can also share the different paper categories that you have on your list. There step-by-step system that you create for each one. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you are going to learn more about photos, trophies, and add. Until then, I hope you have animating rest of your day. 30. Photos, Keepsakes, & Art: Welcome back to day 29. Thank you for being here. In the last session, Julian, strategies to deal with all your paper clutter. In this session, you will learn how to rotate art and change the energy in your space when you need to feel refreshed. How to organize your photos in a way that makes sense to you and your loved ones and how to best honor your keep sakes. Let's get started with art, picture frames and any other decor that you have decided to keep. Ideally, you have enough space to display them all in your home while doing the decluttering process and the sorting, I always recommend to put all your art frames, decor, and any other items you consider decoration together so that you can easily see how much you have. By doing this, you will be more confident deciding what stays and what goes. As you learned. Once you have credit systems and organize all your belongings, you will do the beautifying step. And that's when you can come back to these items and then decide where to hang them or display them. Once you display the things you want and your home feels good, you can then revisit whatever is left over and decide if you want to let these things go or if you want to keep them. Many times, do you make it more items than space you have to display or hang them? When this happens, I really encourage you to look at the things you have and then have another look at your home with new eyes. Do a tour of aerospace and pay attention to any world space available, any empty shelves, any tables, etc. If you could start moving your items into the spaces you feel they feed best, how they look there. And once you feel ready, start hanging them or placing them in the respective homes, you can tweak things around as much as you want. So don't worry. The idea here is to let your creative side come out. I have encouraged people to display the things that I love in their closets, basements, store at spaces, garage, attic, laundry room. They were suppressed at the beginning. But once they display something there, they actually enjoy being graded by that item. Every tend to use that space. There is no right or wrong approach here. Do what feels good to you. My personal opinion is that it is better to owner and display the things you love, rather than keeping them inside boxes or heating away in your storage where you cannot see them. Another great idea that you can implement is to rotate your art picture frames and keep six every time you want a fresh changing your home. You could include this step in your maintenance routine, maybe once every few weeks, every few months, or every few years. You get to this at the frequency and when it feels right to you, you could tell our remainder in your calendar that repeats every three months, for example. To check how you feel about this, of course, you need to have the extra storage space to keep these things. If you live in a small home with no extra space, then you need to be more ruthless. Another tip when it comes to limiting how many keeps sakes, my mentors, memorabilia, children's, our work, trophies, and any other sentimental items is to create healthy boundaries while doing the sorting and the clattering of other areas of your home. I encourage you to keep sentiment that items are site so that you can avoid getting stuck. And two, triggered. Once you had done the category in your home, you will know how much extra space you have available. You can then decide with confidence how much space you are willing to dedicate to these things. Be aware that everybody in your home may need space for this. Having a clear physical boundary can help you decide what to keep and what to let go with more confidence. It's also a great opportunity to teach the later ones how to let go. Remember all the tips you'll learn about sentimental items on day 12 and go back to that session if you need a refresher. When dealing with sentimental items that may trigger you. Remind yourself or your intentions and your life vision. Remind yourself of the kind of lifestyle that you want to have, the activities you want to enjoy and the person you want to become by doing this. And go back to those emotional items and make more intentional decisions. Always remember that you can share any questions about your sentimental items in the course, gradual, so that I can support you further. Let's move to photos. Now. When I talk about photos, I am focusing on physical photos that may be cluttering your home. I want you to be able to deal with all the photos you may have in beans, boxes, albums, and have no idea what to do with him. While the cratering other spaces in your home, I always recommend you put all the photos aside and deal with them all at once. This way you won't feel emotional, confused. And you will be able to move forward finishing your physical space first. Once you are done the transferring, organizing on beautifying your home and your paper. You will have more time, space, and energy to maybe deal with your photos. Sorting and organizing photos can take a long time. So I invite you to ask yourself if dealing with your photos is a priority for you now, for many, it's never a priority. And that's why years go by. And they never made the time to organize them. Unlimited you that it's okay if that's your case to its own about intention. If you feel inspired and motivated to go through your photos, I invite you to intention first. Why are you going through your photos? What Stuart idea outcome. Once you are finished, how much time are you willing to dedicate to this project? How much volume do you have? Can you get help from family members or friends? Can you hire a professional photo organizer? Yes. Make sure that you explore all your options. Make an informed decision. Once you are ready to tackle your photos. These are some tips and ideas to help you set the goal or intentions first on what you want to have happen. Some examples could be, one, I went to have to photo albums. It's one with the top two photos or fits family member. To. I want to select the top 200 and photos, scan them and create a digital photo book that I can print. Three, I went to sort my photos by Persian and year or by a band. Four, I went to create a scrapbook and need X amount of photos. Five, I went to select the top 25 family pictures and create a wall collage of printed photos. Six, I want to create a family tree and need a good photo of its family member. Seven, I went to solve my photos and scan the ones I am keeping to have them in a USB that I can share with my family. Some other cool ideas for your photos could be print them in a Mac, create a calendar, make a collage on a table and co-vary with a glass. Display them on your fried a 108 them every few weeks or months. And create gift card with your photos are postcards and send them to loved ones. Once you have a clear intention in mind, it's time to decide if you're going to do this alone or with help. I have seen families creating social gatherings. Were they all show the photos together and decide which wants to keep. This can be a nice social way of getting head and having fun. Or this half dedicated room to temporarily work in their photo project. And every day or week, they spend some time working at it. They are able to shut the door and come back at anytime to keep going. If you have a smaller space, this approach may not be doable for you. You may need to clean up after every photo session, create a comfortable station to work all this can be a table, a folding table, counter, couch, floor with cushions, bed, and any other place where uncomfortable. Start shooting photos in piles following your intentions. For example, separating your photos by Pearson, by date, by event, etc. You can use masking tape or pause it. Write down the name of the pile if that helps you and other people helping you dispose off any duplicates, blurry photos, or forests that you know for sure. You don't want half a designated back being or bulks. Normally photos cannot go with recycling due to the products that they contain. They normally go with trash. But please double-check the rules in your community to find out the best way to dispose them. Another 0 waste idea is to, if you're selling your pictures as craft supplies or giving them away for free. On free cycle or similar website. Many books grabbers may be looking for pictures like the ones you have. You can also check schools and other education institutions that may use them as raw materials follow the crafts. Last idea is to double-check with any thrift stores or charities in your community to see if they will be interested. If you are planning on giving photos away to other family members or friends, make sure you ask them if they want them first. If they do, then create a box or being labeled with the name of that person and drop any photos you may have for them in there. Once you are done with the shorting process, have dispose of any unwanted photos with the patch you decided to keep. It's time to revisit each pile or category and do another decluttering phase. For example, if you decided to have 25 photos of a specific event and you have on your pile 90 photos. It's time to sort through that specific category. Narrow down which ones are the best 25 photos to keep. As you see, it's easier to do the sorting process in two or more stages so that you can make more confident decisions. Once you have achieved your sorting goal, it's time for you to create whatever you had in mind with those photos. If you are scanning them, I invite you to explore the different options available and do a test with a few photos to see the end result. There are apps available on your phone that are softwares that you can install on your computer. You can also buy a photo scanner or explore where in your community you could have access to one. In our case, our local library has one available. You can also explore the idea of hiring someone to do this part for you. When certain detail photos, make sure you create a system that follows your intentions. For example, if you wanted to separate your photos by family members, then you can create one folder for every family member. You could also rename every photo with a detail name that contains the keywords that you want to use so that you can set easily after. For example, if you are starting your photos by person and date, the name could be something like Peter, February 1994. If you are also taken into account in specific events, you could create something like Peter, February 1990 for Christmas, or Peter 0 to 1994 Canada. Guess, keep in mind your desires, structure, and name the photos accordingly. Please be mindful that this process may take you a long time if you have thousands of photos to deal with. When dealing with other digital devices that have cameras, like your phone or tablet, or your digital camera, it's important to create those intentions for your photos. In my case, I have albums on my phone with the main categories I want to keep. I also have a general camera folder with all the photos. I don't need to sort and store in a specific way. Normally once a month, I upload the photos I went to keep to my hard drive or my Cloud Storage following my desired structure. Congratulations, your photo period is now completed. Moving on from now, the only thing you have to keep in mind is to be aware of any physical photos entering your home, decide if you want to keep them or not. And if you keep them, designate a place to store them. Do the same with your data photos. Create a routine of deleting the ones you don't need. Create a structure of folders for the ones that you want to keep. An upload them regularly to your hard drive or cloud service before your funds memory gets full and it becomes an overwhelming task that most likely you will avoid. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we're going to celebrate your progress and do a recap of all the things you learned in this course. Until then, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 31. Celebrating Your Progress, Recap Of The Last 30 Days, & Moving Forward: Welcome back to day 30. Thank you for being here. This is the last session of this course. Congratulations on making it all the way here. I am so proud of you. It stamped to celebrate your progress and your commitment. We are going to reflect back in your intentions and see where you are. Now. We would also do a recap of all the things that you learned in the last 30 days and how you can keep moving forward from here. In the last 30 sessions, you'll learn the main three steps to follow to create your credit free home. It's our step-1 are Warner's step to action and step three mountains. The first nine sessions were designated to help you with step-1 awareness. On session one, you'll learn how to understand cluttered better. On session to a Julian waste to embrace and accept your current situation. On session three, I share some real stories from people just like you who this headed to take control of their credit situation and made the changes they needed. Decision was designed to help you get inspired and motivated. On sessions 456 with IT practices to help you get excited, visualize your encrypt space, declare your intentions, and connect with your life vision. On session seven, you'll learn ways to include your loved ones in this yearning. Session eight was all about helping you create and predict the time that you need to make this transformation at reality. And on session nine, Julian, how to reduce overwhelmed and deal with all the emotions that may arise during this journey using self-care practices. As you may know by now, awareness, these are very necessary step to be able to get started creating your credit free home. There is a lot of invisible work that needs to be done before any physical work can happen. Many gets stuck in this step. This is why after helping so many people through the journey, I realized how important it is to cover all these topics at the beginning. Sessions tend to 16. Covered this step to the action. On session ten. Julian does step-by-step method that I have designed from my experience of helping over 350 people one-on-one in their homes on social. And 11, I shared with you other methods from other experts in the organizing industry for you to become aware of other ways and how you can create your own method that aligns well with your personality and your style. On session 12, you'll learn how to deal with emotional items that you have a hard time dealing with. Organization 13, you'll learn ways to give you an unwanted items and new life. On session 14, we covered how to give and receive gifts with intention. On session 15, do you learn how to beautify and cleanse your space on Section 15, Julian, how to beautify and cleanse your space. Extreme. I shared strategies to integrate your digital life into your home in a healthy and intentional way. Session 1718 Colbert, this step three demand. In session 17, you'll learn how to create a maintenance plan to help you keep your home clutter-free. How to create rituals and routines to help you develop new habits and how to transition through the different stages of your life. And on session 18, we cover how to create cleaning routines. Once you had a solid understanding of each of these steps, I designed sessions 19 in 29. Today, even deeper into specific spaces of your home. Session 19, cover your kitchen, pantry and fried. In session 20, Julian, how to master your closet, your clothes, and your laundry. Session 21 was wholly about your bedroom and bathroom. In session 22, we covered play rooms and toys. Session 23 was all about living room, rec room, and entryway. In session 24, we cover basement and attic. Session 25, whereas all about your garage and all the equipment that you store in it. In session 26, I focused on helping you the credit and organize small homes. Session 27 was all about books, crafts, and Hobbes. On session 28, we covered office papers and finance. It last. Session 29 was all about photos. Keep sakes, and art. We covered a lot in this course. I will invite you now to reflect about your current situation after finishing this course. Maybe you just listened to every session once that all the information can sink in your brain, then you can get started again, this time taken action. Maybe you have a really good instead of putting some of these strategies into actually, maybe this is your second or third time listening to this course. Please read out loud the intentions that you broke down at the beginning of the course and see how you feel about them. Maybe you have accomplished them. Maybe you are working towards making them a reality. Maybe they don't make sense to you anymore. And you need to set new ones or tweak the ones that you have? Yes. Allow some time to reflect and check in with yourself. I invite you to close your eyes, get comfortable and to take some time for reflection. If you need more time, please pause the audio and come back when you are ready. I invite you to set a rate any progress that you noticed, even if there is no physical transformation yet. I'm confident that you are doing a lot of invisible work. Working on your emotions, your limiting beliefs, on your clarity about your intentions, etc. Celebrate the fact that you are allowing yourself time to do these heats. Beautiful. Perfect. Each word you need right now. If you have made progress, decluttering and transforming a space in your home. Congratulations. Can you believe that you did it? You can do this and way, way more. I believe in you. Thank you so much for finishing this session and this course. Can you believe that we spent 30 days together? I really heard that the contents of this course helps you create your peaceful and clutter-free whole Homeboy, you feel great, facilitates the lifestyle that you want to have. A home that helps you become the person you want to be. Remember that you don't have to do all this work in 30 days. I recommend new students to go through this course once so that you can listen to all these strategies, ideas, and examples I shared with you in every session. And then start the course again, this time ready to take action. He took it to allow days between introduction the second or third or fourth time that you take this course. It's also okay to just go to this specific session that you are interested in. If you want to have a printed layout of the course for easy access, please let me know in the course classroom and I will share one with you. I also invite you to share any comments and feedback that you have about this course. I am always open to hear what you liked and what you thought was missing or done differently. Your comments will help me improve the next version of this course. It was very nice to spend all this time with you. I am here anytime you need support and encouragement, celebration, accountability, and anything you may need to make this journey as enjoyable as possible. You have lifetime access to this course and you can participate in the course classroom anytime you need support. Now or in the future. Make sure you said reminders in your calendar to take him with yourself about how you feel in your home. Anytime you feel frustration and Nathan refresher, come back, I will be here waiting for you and please share your progress in the future. I love, love, love. When you share how your life has changed, it really fills my heart with positive energy, motivation, creating, and to keep sharing. Some next steps for you can be to take my other courses. Once you are ready to keep learning. You can attend one of my live sessions. You can also work on one-on-one mentoring video call with me here on his eye tamer so that we can dive deeper into whatever you need, extra support and accountability with. All this information is available on my Insight Timer, publisher profile. I wish you success and lots of intention in your dirty. I know we will meet again soon.