Fall In Love With Yourself This Year - RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN!

Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” www.drdeclutter.com

Fall In Love With Yourself This Year - RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN!

Whether it’s Valentine’s Day or Groundhogs Day!, it’s always “today” at some point.

EVERY Day and consistently declutter thoughts that keep you from taking good and GREAT care of yourself. If you were madly in love with another, your children, or… your pet, think of the things you do for them that you don’t do for yourself! (Especially if you have children… remember, you are their role model. What are they learning from you about self-image, self-love, self-esteem?) Why keep settling for less?

Time to change that!

Right now list 3 things that would make you feel more relaxed, loved, happy, joyful and/or peaceful. Now, go do them or create them. Don’t wait for others to “get it” – start doing and being it for yourself, you will notice life around you changing because of it!

You deserve the BEST!

IT’S ALL ABOUT RETRAINING YOUR BRAIN!
If you need help with this concept; if you need to “let go” of old patterned thoughts and beliefs and habits that keep you stuck and dissatisfied with your life; if you would like to make some major, or even small changes in your life and need support and guidance, I have more answers for you!

RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN: CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOR GOOD!
http://www.drdeclutter.com/personal_coaching.html

Let’s heal the world, one joyful heart at a time! I look forward to seeing you there! Or, on the telephone sessions!

©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

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How Will You Enjoy Your "Found Time" This Year!

Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” www.drdeclutter.com

How Will You Enjoy Your "Found Time" This Year!

On average Americans lose one (1) hour a day searching for misplaced objects. That’s not to mention
a) the loss in money, re-purchasing the same items over and over again, and
b) the emotional and mental costs of stress, guilt, shame, embarrassment and self-loathing or blame.

Count it up! This is "found time", and can certainly be used for better things... like a vacation, reading, your hobby, your children, friends, family... you name it!

I have many stories shared with me on an ongoing basis about this frustration as well as my hands-on personal examples from organizing jobs in homes and offices. (If you think any of these are you... you might be correct... or not!)

Here are just a very few of the items I’ve decluttered and sorted at jobs over 5 1/2 years of organizing. Items lost and misplaced that added up to hours of wasted time, energy and money. Each line item from a different client/job:

- 10 bottles of prescription medication
- 8 uncashed checks for $1,500 and $600.00 cash
- $400.00 in gift cards unsent from the previous Christmas
- $600.00 in gift cards and gift certificates, now expired
- 27 pair of reading glasses, 10 reading glass cases
- 4 TV remotes
- 4 garage remotes
- 9 valid credit cards
- 3 valid passports
- 6 needed computer programs
- Four-year old wedding present wrapped, never sent
- 2 check books
- 26 cans of soup, past expiration date
- 32 gallon cans of freeze dried food and protein powder
- Approximately 80 items of bulk purchases: mustard, tomato sauce, toothpaste, deodorant, lotion, razors, soy sauce
- 25 candles
- 3 ski passes
- 8 gold and silver chains/jewelry

Get organized and take a GREAT vacation with your time and energy saved. Send me a post card!!

©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

Don’t go through another stressful holiday season again this year! My 43-page content packed and idea-rich ebook, Keep the Holidays Simple will give you the permission and plans to make the changes that will help you stay centered, honor your needs and enjoy everyone, no matter what! Order and/or read more at http://www.redecisionsinstitute.com/id19.html

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Decluttering Can Be Cathartic

Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” www.drdeclutter.com

Decluttering Can Be Cathartic

In my many years of speaking and presenting seminars and workshops on stress management, change and organizing, the human condition that is deep in our cells is that of holding onto the old, sometimes useless items – the fear of change and of perceived loss.

Recently I asked an audience member who she’d be without her “stuff”; who she’d be with an organized and tidy home, she said with a shudder, “I’d feel lost!” After saying it out loud she got it. OH! SHIFT! By the end of the class she was so excited to go home and start shoveling out the old and making breathing room for herself and her husband. She realized that she wouldn’t be losing anything, but gaining everything.

Clutter blocks the way of more – more of the right and better – more of the best for you. To have a rich and radiant life it’s imperative that you declutter and organize, decide and release the past and anything that you do not love, is functional and does not bring you joy.

KEY ISSUE HERE: Let go of everything that does not support your present and future.

Dig in. Sort out into containers. Take to thrift shops or shelters. Give away. Make room for better and best! Release the blocks to what you really want and what really wants you!

©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

Don’t go through another stressful holiday season again this year! My 43-page content packed and idea-rich ebook, Keep the Holidays Simple will give you the permission and plans to make the changes that will help you stay centered, honor your needs and enjoy everyone, no matter what! Order and/or read more at http://www.redecisionsinstitute.com/id19.html

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Organize Your Subconscious Filing System

Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” http://www.drdeclutter.com/

Organize Your Subconscious Filing System

Do you have “gut” reactions to things, and then later find out that you “should have” paid attention to them? Do you feel psychic or intuitive once in a while and are then surprised that you’re right?

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based
on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Maybe it’s time to take those hunches and feelings seriously and organize your subconscious filing system!

Our conscious mind can only hold upfront in the top file drawer, or on the mental desktop a few things at a time. Have you ever seen a photo from your childhood or even a year ago of something you did and said, “Oh, I remember that!” But, you don’t remember it all of the time, just when you see something that triggers that file drawer to open and remind you. We’d literally go insane if we actually could remember and think of everything we’ve ever known, done, heard, learned or noticed all at the same time and all of the time.

In order to tap into and open those files of good stuff that you want to use and retrieve that are just below the conscious level, it’s important to use the keys that work.

Key: Focus on things that really interest you and ask yourself what you “already know” that could support your interests or ideas further.

Key: STOP! Being quiet isn’t a norm for the western culture. We’re all about running, driving, racing and talking with cell phone, TV, radio, computer, iPod and other activities going non-stop to distract us from our internal, overflowing file systems.

If you want to be more intuitive, have more good hunches and learn to trust them more often, slow down. Shut off the TV. Stop the emails and Internet surfing that is unnecessary (you know when that is too!!). PUT THE REMOTE DOWN AND WALK AWAY!!! … take time to go on quiet walks in nature or meditate on your favorite chair. Paint, draw, play musical instruments. Make the time for activities that slow your mind down so that the files of facts just waiting to surface have the open space through which to rise and be heard! Life has a very different flow to it when we open and use these file systems! And, have fun!

A wonderful CD that I use to support slowing down and listening within is Healthful Relaxation. Click here to get your copy.

“When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.”
~ Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese Zen Master


©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

Need help getting your space (house, office, barn, backyard – thoughts, mind, time, schedule, priorities, or life) decluttered and re- organized? My video “BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN, AND OTHER ORGANIZING TIPS AND TOOLS FROM DR. DECLUTTER” is a great help. You can find out more or order BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN and other products at http://www.redecisionsinstitute.com/burndownv.html

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Finding The 25th Hour in a Day

Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” http://www.drdeclutter.com/

Finding The 25th Hour in a Day

How do you get more “time” in your day? I hear it all the time, don’t you? “I just don’t have enough time! I just wish I had some time for myself!!”

Rewriting your “to do” list is supposed to make it shorter, right? So, what happened?!

There never seems to be enough time. Life clutter is everywhere! Calendars, emails, deadlines, requests, work, home, kids, family, pets, chores, travel and other nagging “DO THIS NOW!” sticky notes makes for a life filled with stress, overwhelm, aggravated emotions, guilt and lost energy. Creating even one more hour a day is a skill not lost on anyone who can’t take it any longer.

8 TIPS TO TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE, TIME AND MIND
Life’s short! Add (schedule in) an hour a day, to relax, reflect and complete projects with these starter tips.

1) Start simply, by reviewing your holy “to do” list. Take off anything that is not truly yours to do. Give back and delegate those activities that belong to someone else. (Be prepared…they will not like it!)
2) Review your daily schedule. Make changes where you can to make time for yourself to breathe and slow down. Everything doesn’t have to done yesterday.
3) Manage expectations of others – stop being “user-friendly”. On a airplane, the flight attendant will instruct you to put on your oxygen mask first, before helping your child or neighboring passenger with theirs. Why? Because if you’re dead, you can’t help anyone else! Say “yes” to yourself first, which may sound like “no” to others and stop being, or feeling taken advantage of. You might just be the best person to head up “another” committee, and you can say, “No. But, thank you.”
4) Support yourself: Make sure to put your most important items and personal time on your schedule first, if you don’t there’ll be no room for them after all of the lesser or other’s schedules take up your time and space.
5) Say “yes” to simplicity! The more you have the more you have… to maintain, protect, take care of, look after, store, clean… etc. Declutter, simplify or hire someone to do most of it for you!
6) Delegate. When you can, delegate it, even if it means hiring someone.
7) Stop “shoulding” on yourself! As in, “I should…. “ Make plans, do it or not, but no guilt – big time, energy and spirit waster!
8) Breathe. Just stop and breathe. Running all day and feeling anxious causes multiple physical energy and mental capacity problems. For even ten seconds at a time, once an hour, sit down and just b-r-e-a-t-h-e. D-e-e-p-l-y. It will make a difference.

©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

Don’t go through another stressful holiday season again this year! – No matter how far away it SEEMS! My 43-page content packed and idea-rich ebook, Keep the Holidays Simple will give you the permission and plans to make the changes that will help you stay centered, honor your needs and enjoy everyone, no matter what! Order and/or read more at http://www.redecisionsinstitute.com/id19.html Editors and publishers are free to reprint blog articles as long as it is reprinted in its entirety and the signature line remains intact.