Reduce Your Waste, Reduce Your Waist?
Organizational expert and author, Peter Walsh, says there's a strong relationship between the clutter you accumulate in your house and the weight you accumulate on your body.
Excessive clutter and excessive weight can often be symptomatic of emotional issues that are unresolved. "Eating more and buying more is an attempt to fill the need for something more," Peter says. "Until you get those underlying issues dealt with, all the rest is a waste of time."
Disorganisation in your house is often a reflection of the disorganisation in your life. It can be a case of the chicken and the egg, and which one came first, but regardless, the cycle has to be broken.
Trying to sort through the problem of excessive clutter can be overwhelming, so it's important to tackle one room at a time. The two most important rooms in the house are your bedroom and the kitchen. Both of them have strong emotional connections to your life.
Your bedroom is your sanctuary, a place where you can feel nurtured. Tripping over a pile of clothes does nothing to achieve that. If you're not nurturing your sanctuary, you are not nurturing yourself.
Your kitchen is equally important, as it is the centre point of the health of your family. A cluttered, dirty kitchen hardly evokes a sense of well-being. De-cluttering your kitchen of useless items and out of date food raises the standard of how you and your children eat and live.
By removing the clutter in key areas of your home, you are not only changing how you perceive your home, but also yourself. You are opening your home and yourself to new and healthier ways of living, allowing you and your children to make healthier choices.
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