While I typically invite you to think rather than tell you what to do, it would be a dereliction of duty to deprive you of my favorite decluttering principle. Rather than agonize over emotional, space, and financial considerations, I recommend a simple use standard.  If I have not used it in a year, I free it from the confines of

Now that you are a faithful sentinel guarding your homestead against an invasion by anything you will not effectively use and removing an existing item for each new one you bring in, you can turn your attention to repurposing the unused objects trespassing in your home.   I do not write “dispose of” as that implies loss.  Repurposing gives an item

You do not need to be a television show-worthy hoarder to have far more than you use.  A cursory review of our closets, kitchen drawers, and garages provides ample evidence for all but the most fastidious.   I am not approaching this subject from a moral or value standpoint, criticizing extravagant spending.  No, my approach is practical.  We should avoid the

Each of us can point to circumstances not of our own doing to justify a lack of accomplishment (economically poor family, “bad” parents, fat genes, surname ends in a vowel, etc.).  All of them may be an impairment, but do not consign us to defeat.  By taking responsibility for our response, we may prevail against them.  They Did It Bad

You need to answer it.  And sometimes it rings when we are unprepared or wish they called someone else.  We need to respond even when the timing is terrible, we do not want to, or we do not feel suited for the task. It Rings We would immediately jump to the aid of a heart attack victim and perform CPR,

Better Left Undone? We fancy ourselves facing the world like a swashbuckler standing on the ship’s bow with our saber upraised.  In reality, the fear of failure too often confines us in our safe harbor and stops us from pursuing what we want.  Missteps confirm our present inability, create feelings of shame and disappointment, and potentially subject us to ridicule.