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APRIL CHALLENGE: Declutter Your Spaces

Build healthy patterns with our One Healthy Habit challenge. This month, we sort through all the stuff.

By Experience Life Staff | Experience LifeMarch 17, 2023

Clutter creates inefficiencies in our living spaces and in the way we operate. “[Clutter] is just stagnant energy,” says feng shui expert Tisha Morris. “Where there’s clutter in your home, there will be clutter in [you] — either physically, mentally, or emotionally.”

Make decluttering a daily habit by starting with a single surface or contained area. Mail piles, your wallet or purse, one drawer — take five minutes and start small.

Here’s How to Take Action:

Overcoming Barriers

The Emotional Toll of Clutter

What is your space saying about you — and what is it doing to your energy, mood and outlook on life?

How Clutter Affects Mental Health

A feng shui expert explains why cluttered desks, tables and countertops may be all that’s standing between you and your next big thing.

a woman writes in a journal in the midst of a moving mess

How Clutter Affects Your Energy

How clearing out the clutter in your space can help you clear your head, too.

an older woman and man carry a box of old belongings out

How to Let Go of Sentimental Clutter

Hanging on to too much old stuff just because it has “sentimental value” can weigh you down. These smart decluttering strategies help you clear space while still honoring the memories that matter.

Be More With Less: Q&A With Courtney Carver

Creator of Project 333, and author of Simple Ways to Be More With Less shares what she’s learned through simplifying her life — and a few tips to help you get started.

How Does Feng Shui Work?

Michael Schnippering on how Feng Shui works.

How to Embrace the Wabi-Sabi Style in Your Home

Tired of trying to make your home look magazine-slick? Discover the Japanese art of wabi-sabi or “appreciating the imperfect.”

A Space-By-Space Guide

a person waters a jade plant on their nightstand

3 Spaces to Declutter Now

Not ready to take on the whole house? Just making forays into this trio of high-impact areas can help you take a load off your life.

Order Out of Chaos: Laundry–and–Mud Room Makeover

A cluttered laundry-and-mud room becomes a functional, pleasant place to be.

Order Out of Chaos: The Entryway

Simple, thoughtful, low-cost strategies for transforming the first place you see when you walk in the door.

Order Out of Chaos: The Home Office

Low-cost improvements yield big returns in a cramped home-office space.

Order Out of Chaos: Bill Payment and Desk Organization

Minimize the stress of paying bills by creating a simple system for household paperwork.

Order Out of Chaos: The Closet

A feng-shui and decluttering expert explains the secrets of the well-organized closet.

Order Out of Chaos: The Linen Closet and Bathroom

How to arrange your bathroom and linen closet so they support a more peaceful start to the day.

Order Out of Chaos: The Pantry

A kitchen cleared of clutter gives a working mother the space and inspiration to cook.

Order out of Chaos: Declutter the Bedroom

Feng-shui expert Andrea Gerasimo explains how to make your bedroom a restful sanctuary.

Order Out of Chaos: The Car

Our decluttering expert shows one very busy fitness editor how to organize her ride.

One Healthy Habit

For more inspiration and other challenges, please visit One Healthy Habit.

Experience Life Staff

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By Cat Thompson

Instead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.

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