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“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest
that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
~ Jan Glidewell, Times North Suncoast columnist, St. Petersburg, FL (retired)

I’ve been in many homes in my life, and especially as an organizer, where people have so much of their past in their present that they can’t enjoy their “now,” today or a tomorrow.

Are you ready to open up your present, to live and enjoy it now? (Before it’s too late?!) 

Let go of the past.

Start with what’s in front of you, don’t even think of going into storage yet! Start with today’s messes and piles, boxes and bags that haven’t been put in their “homes” and haven’t a real place to “live” — so they’re lost and wondering around your house and mind.

Everything needs to have a permanent, realistic and organized “home.”

After you’ve dealt with the everyday stuff, start moving into closets and garages, attics, basements and storage units.

It’s not easy, but important — especially if you’re actually PAYING for storage!!

Can’t do it alone? This is why you hire me, a Professional Organizer to come help you dig out — not just of the physical and materials photos, inherited stuff and things and paper, but of the emotions that are laced into everything you look at and pick up, stopping you, freezing you in your tracks.  A Professional Organizer can help you move through and past your emotions and resistance, grief and sadness, anger, pain and stuck places.

And, here I’ll add my signature speech lines that every audience hears, no matter what my program topic! . . .

“If you die today, which anyone of us can, what are you leaving for your family to deal with? Do you realize that they may just throw all of your stuff out? Make responsible decisions now, giving things to the people you love and want them to have; donating as you really want; selling, thrifting, etc. by your choice, not by default.”

My clients realize each time I work with them what I know very well, that letting go of the past — moving past and releasing what is not alive and happy and brings you joy — opens up a whole new level of energy, emotions, thinking, clarity and freedom.  As several of my clients have remarked, “I feel like I’ve lost weight! I’m so much lighter!”

©2009 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter” Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert  www.drdeclutter.com

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