I've renewed my passion for blogging, feeling more connected to the bigger picture these days (must be because spring is just around the corner, though you wouldn't know it today because it is snowing!!). We had to move house just before Xmas, so we've had a lot of packing/unpacking, and I've still NOT hung all of our pictures up... Sigh...

I have a great sense that we will only live here a short time, but that this is the place where I will be organizing myself, my belongings (getting rid of a lot of junk), and my thoughts/ideas. This house is a number "4" which in Numerology is about:

	concentration
	management
	application
	conservation
	dedication
	efficiency
	organization
	follow-through

This house is also quite small, so there is no room for being lazy, frivolous, sloppy, or keeping things that don't resonate perfectly with who we are right now. Our last house was larger, had much more space to keep things and spread out. I liked having the space, but all it did for me was create a place to foster my attitude of INDECISION.

Did you know that INDECISION IS THE NUMBER ONE THING that creates CLUTTER in our lives??? I'm talking about all kinds of clutter here: Emotional, Mental, and the Clutter of Belongings.

The physical clutter of our lives boils down to that ONE THING: "Decisions." We avoid clearing the clutter in our homes/cars/offices, etc. because we don't want to make DECISIONS! Everything you touch has decisions attatched to it: Where does it really belong? Do I love this? Do I need this? Etc.! This is why organizing can be so tiring and why so many of us avoid it! IT IS THIS SIMPLE. Try this: decide to organize your handbag or a drawer, start handling the items in it, and you will quickly become aware that the task at hand is actually about making decisions. A-HA!, right???

Moving on from the physical: when we don't consciously "decide" what to THINK, or "decide" what feelings or IDEAS are really ours, we get an accumulation of clutter in our heads and our hearts! This causes all kinds of dismay and disease for us. I KNOW, I've been there.! So ask yourself, are your thoughts outdated? Are they serving you? Have you questioned where they come from? If you make a simple decision to think/not think something you have started to clear the clutter! Then if you challenge the ideas you have about life and make the simple decison to "allow them to change if necessary," you are moving into the flow of ideas and energy, rather than living in a stagnant pond. This doesn't mean that you are being disloyal to yourself, or that you are opening up to things that might lead you astray, you will actually be allowing your truth to come out of hiding. We often can't see ourselves because of all of that mental clutter. ..

I believe that we cannot move forward with life when we are being indecisive because we are not LIVING WITH THE TRUTH OF OURSELVES. When I make a decision to keep something or throw it out (an idea, a thought, a chair, a scarf, etc.), I am making a decision about its value to ME. What am I saying here? That once we decide what it is we value (what it is that truly energizes us, or resonates with the energy that is at the core of who we are) we will be living in TRUTH and FREEDOM. We will be getting CLEAR about who we are and what we desire out of life, and "life" will then know what we require from it. ;-)

How do I know this? A long love affair with ORGANIZING (comibined with an attitude of self-awareness). I have helped myself and many friends/family/employers get more organized, and it is something that comes naturally to me. I don't mean that it is always easy or that I am perfectly organized...just that it is something that is effortless for me when I do it. Desiring to start my own Organizing business, I have challenged myself to come up with core principles for teaching organizing techniques and so arrived at this central idea.

DECISIONS! If you can make some every day, no matter how large or small, you will start to live a whole new life, trust me!

Also, check out this link to a great blog: http://www.cosmicorder.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-be-magnetic-attract-your-dream.html

This article is all about how eliminating things from our lives creates a vacuum and helps create intention (similar to what I've said, but adds to this idea).

Clarissa
Xxxx