The Decluttering Restart: How to Finally Finish What You Started in January | Clutterbug Podcast #331

In January, I told you that you don't have to have your entire year mapped out.

You don't have to lose 20 pounds.

You don't have to become a minimalist.

You don't have to completely change your life.

You only have one thing, and that one thing, be consistent.

I realize now that that is actually one of the hardest things to do [laughs] is be consistent.

Because even if it's a really small step, a small habit we're trying to start, it's easier for sure than going balls to the walls doing it all, but it's still tough to show up.

So if you failed, if you had a goal or a word or, like, something you were really hoping you would've achieved by now, we're halfway through the year, I'm here to tell you you have not failed.

Do you know how many times you have to restart? I think studies say, like, three or four times you have to, like, quit and then restart before things actually become a habit.

So the fact that you've maybe fallen off the wagon doesn't mean anything other than that you're human.

And today, we're getting back on.

We are going to, like, grab the second half of this year by the gonads and make it awesome.

At the beginning of every year, everyone thinks they have to get their weight and health under control.

They feel like they have to organize and declutter their entire house.

They have to completely and radically overhaul their finances and get out of debt and have, like, a bazillion dollars saved.

They have to change their relationships and become a better wife and mother and sister and all the other things.

Like, there is some pressure in January to completely reinvent ourselves, and I did a podcast at the beginning of this year telling you you don't have to do any of that.

Like, let's take the pressure off ourselves to become a different person, and instead, take one small step to slowly be a little bit better version of who we are right now.

If you made a plan in January to overhaul your life or your home or whatever, it's now June.

We are halfway through the year, and if you're in the same place you were, or maybe things are even worse, do not worry.

This podcast is for you.

In that podcast in January, we talked about a road map that you could have for your year to have, like, a really successful year.

We also talked about how that's kind of a little bit of BS.

You can't really have the perfect plan.

But if you feel like, "Cass, I had big goals and it didn't work out," I have something even better: a road map for restarting.

Because if you've been knocked down seven times, it's time to get up eight times.

That's what we're talking about today, like, how to dust yourself off and start again.