The systems would be created to accommodate their lifestyle and ideas would be introduced with the goal of being able to return to baseline with no more than a few minutes of their time each day. Home organizing systems are great, but maintenance of those systems is key to get from clutter to calm.

They grew up with stories of prior generations, family members who had little, worked hard and risked much to create better lives for themselves and more importantly their families. Those stories are imbedded into their beings and influence their beliefs and practices about the stuff they own.

Life happens and our best intentions get interrupted, circumstances change, and we need a reset. Sometimes, the organized needs reorganizing.

Clutter is a popular word, and it is often said that physical clutter equates to mental clutter. It also comes in many forms: physical or visible, mental, emotional, and digital, to name a few. It is whatever keeps you from living the life you want to live and from accomplishing what you want to accomplish.