Episode 145: How to De-Clutter and Make Space for Happiness, with Tracy McCubbin

Your home is a tool. If your home is cluttered, it's not working for you. De-cluttering is not about being perfect. It's about making your house work for you as an asset to make room for happiness. ~ Tracy McCubbin We're just a few days into 2023, and if you're like us here at Brilliantly Resilient, your brain is already racing with goals and to-do's for the coming year. Like most people, we're raring to go and looking forward to crushing it in the New Year. But first, it's time to put away all of the lovely holiday decor that bejeweled our homes for the last five or six weeks. Funny, though, how those things that sparkled a short while ago now make rooms seem tired, dusty, and cluttered. Our friend Tracy McCubbin is the perfect person to help us begin 2023 by decluttering our homes and mindsets with some fundamental ideas and actions aimed at making our surroundings work for us, not against us. As Tracy advises, when we think of our homes as a tool meant to help us, it allows us to more clearly see what's working and what isn't–and what can be loaded into the donate or discard pile. So much that we hold on to no longer serves us. When we make room for more in our lives by decluttering, the space becomes mental as well as physical, and change becomes exponential. Tune into this week's episode of the Brilliantly Resilient podcast to hear more of Tracy's wisdom and be sure to check out her new book, Make Space for Happiness: How to Stop Attracting Clutter and Start Magnetizing the Life You Want . Listen for these additional bits of Brilliance from Tracy in the episode: I saw the choke-hold that people's stuff can have on them. Don't become a museum to the past. The more clutter you have, the more your cortisol goes up. Clutter is a constant to-do list. And the more decisions your brain makes, the more tired it gets. If you couple the source of your happiness to your stuff and it goes away, where are you? Start with your "why." Why are you decluttering? Keep your why positive. And start with the easy things. Things you can declutter in 5 minutes. ~Tracy McCubbin Wishing you all good things in 2023. Let's be Brilliantly Resilient together!