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Balance Boosters!
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Dietta L. Stewart
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Nov 09, 2003 16:33 PST
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Balance Boosters
“The monthly e-zine for busy women who want to balance their lives and
reach their full potential.
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November 2003
***What’s Inside***
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Notes from Dietta
Feature Article: 5 Ways to Win the War on Clutter
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“Be consistent even when you mess up. Just pick back up and keep moving
forward.”
--Dietta
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News
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Notes from Dietta…
Okay, maybe its just me but this year has flown by like crazy. (Yep,
you guessed it I’m leading up to why I’m late with the newsletter :-).
The first Monday of the month came at me before I realized that, “Hey,
don’t you have something you’re supposed to be doing? Oh yes!!!”
Well anyway that’s my story, last month flew by and this month rushed in
on its heels. But thankfully you weren’t too worried (maybe you didn’t
even notice :-)
The other day, I spent over an hour going through papers that had been
piling on my desk. Going through, filing and tossing papers brought up
a wide range of emotions. Guilt rose to the top as I saw several school
papers for my youngest daughter from the beginning of the school year
(we are now in our 10th or 11th week) that I never got around to filling
out.
Overwhelm came up second as I thought about the various decisions I
hadn’t made or the ones I tried to avoid making by sticking the
information in a pile and pushing it to the side. Relief finally came
once I had everything clean and organized again.
Sometimes I have to stop and ask myself “How did you let things get so
messy? You used to be organized.” Well, I have come to the conclusion
that being organized comes and goes as we pass through different seasons
in our lives. And it seems to hold a different definition in each
season, too.
Don’t feel discouraged if things aren’t always perfectly organized,
(even if others give you a hard time because you can’t help them find
something as fast as you once could). Just do the best that you can do
and be at peace with yourself. Perfection is NOT the goal. BALANCE is!
With Love, Dietta
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**Special Note—the following article is a reprint from a previous
newsletter (please don’t ask me which one, I didn’t want to go back
through and look) Anyway I thought it wouldn’t hurt to run it again.
Feature Article
5 Ways to Win the War on Clutter
By: Dietta L. Stewart
I had probably walked past that closet a hundred times, each time
telling myself how badly it needed cleaned. But each time I had an
excuse. A good one too, I’d get to it next weekend. Finally, after
many weeks of putting it off I opened the door to my youngest daughter’s
closet. It had been declared a hazardous area, I would need special
equipment before moving in.
Armed with my 13-gallon trash bag I took a deep breath and ventured in.
What a mess. A half -hour into the task I wondered if there was an end
to the mounds of Barbie shoes, jewelry beads, crayons, (hey, these are
brand new crayons!), Barbie clothes, doll house furniture…You get the
idea. About 3 hours and 5, yes 5 trash bags later, I was finished. The
closet had been seized and conquered. I had won one more battle over
clutter. I wondered if I’d ever win the war. I decided that I could.
I’m going to show you how you can too.
Clutter is a monster that grows and multiplies without warning and
appears when we aren’t looking. Clutter is a thief of peace and
balance. It takes up space in our homes, and our hearts. Clearing the
clutter out of your life is surprisingly liberating. Even after
cleaning a small space like a drawer in your kitchen you will suddenly
feel lighter. Choose today to restore energy and vitality to your life
by clearing away the clutter.
Here are 5 easy ways to get you started.
1. Define Clutter. What does clutter mean to you?
In order to defeat something you have to know what it is you’re
fighting.
2. Take one area at a time. Sort through your stuff, clean and dust as
you go. Get rid of things that no longer fit who you are.
3. Do regular clutter maintenance to keep it from getting out of
control. Create a schedule for major clutter clearing, like spring and
fall, or every New Year’s day.
4. Create a space for everything.
5. Decide what areas won’t be clutter free. Unless you live by
yourself or with someone who is very neat, you have to deal with other
people’s clutter. If we let it, clutter can cause many the argument,
heartache and headache. To alleviate the stress of trying to control
someone else’s clutter accept that some areas will always be cluttered
unless the person or people creating the clutter changes or cleans it
up. This is okay. Every place we have lived my husband has created a
spot where he puts everything he brings into the house and leaves it
there. Magazines, mail, tools, you name it. In the past I would let
this frustrate me and I tried my best to change it, after over ten years
of marriage it still hasn’t changed. I don’t think it ever will, so I
have learned to live with it. When I’m in the mood I clean it up. When
I’m not, I leave it.
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Copyright 2002—2003 All Rights Reserved. Dietta L. Stewart
THANK YOU FOR READING
SEE YA NEXT MONTH!
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