Cluttered To Clean

  • Home
  • Work With Me
  • Archives
  • Questions?
  • Contact

Taking The First Step

June 8, 2015 by Robert Wall

step-780896_1280Every journey begins with a single step.

We’ve all heard this sentence before, probably multiple times. It’s obvious to us. It’s almost to the point where we hear it and say “yes, of course – so what?”

Many of us have decluttering journeys ahead of us. I know a lot of people that are positively buried in clutter, and they’ve been buried in clutter for years. When you ask them about it, they’ll give an answer along the lines of “I’ve been meaning to get around to it, but I just haven’t found the time.”

It’s a fair answer. Finding time for decluttering can be challenging. But the inverse of “every journey begins with a single step” is also a truism, and it’s something that we often forget:

No journey will begin without the first step.

If you never take the first step, you’re never going to reach your goal. It doesn’t matter if that’s decluttering your home, writing a book, getting a college degree, or anything else. You absolutely, positively need that first step.

Much of the time we blow the effort needed to start all out of proportion. We act like the saying is, “every journey begins by blocking off a weekend to start.” But it’s not.

One step.

What’s your next “one step”? What’s stopping you from taking it?

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Want to discuss this post, or decluttering in general?

I've set up a private Facebook group! You can join here!

Oh, and if you like what you just read you can get future articles delivered straight to your inbox. Easy peasy! Just enter your email address in the box below:


  • 
  • 
  • 

Got Distractions?
Get The Guide!

Distractions got you down? Grab this short guide and learn how to work within your reality - and finally make progress conquering your clutter! You'll also receive new blog posts once a week or so.


Search This Site

Copyright © 2019 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in