TCOY Lessons From My Favorite Bloggers (May10)

This has certainly been a slow news month. All I've got for you are several fabulous posts on the topic of life clutter and one on the topic of Taking Care Of Yourself on the outside. Enjoy!

Life Clutter posts:
On reSPACEd, MaryJo asks "Are your 4 letter words stopping your decluttering efforts? Her post succinctly identifies those little words that cause big mental clutter problems for us. And, as we say over at the 365 Days of Decluttering Challenge blog: Mental clutter manifests itself into visual clutter. When you purge the physical clutter, the mental clutter will follow it out the door!

Also on reSPACEd, MaryJo reminds us to save a child while saving what is recyclable from the landfill in this post about recycling old car seats in a new way.

In this guest post on Unclutterer titled "Mind Over Clutter", Pooja Gugnani writes, "The toughest phase of the downsizing process is finding the heart to dispose things you’ve owned for years, or that have memories attached to them."

TCOY on the outside posts focus on the interplay between Taking Care Of Ourselves on the inside, as most people think of, and about TCOY on the outside.

The always inspirational Sally from Already Pretty recently "received a wake-up call from the Universe. It came in the form of an irregular MRI of my brain." And, as usual, she shared our own thoughts on her body and self image in the hopes of giving us all a wakeup call without the drama of a medical scare.

From Love This Body:

Since suspense makes me irate, I’ll tell you right now that I am just fine. I have inner-ear vertigo which will be treated with physical therapy, and my other symptoms are related to a protruding disc in my back. When the neurologist told me this, I gripped her leg and wept again with relief.

Does this sound a little melodramatic? Good. I have never been more frightened in my LIFE people, and the whole experience made me see my world in a completely different light. I have always known, intellectually, that wasting time and energy worrying about big hips or jiggly upper arms is idiotic. But now I know it on a much, much deeper level. I am alive. I am healthy. I can walk, talk, eat, sing, write, bike, work, cuddle, laugh, and grow old slowly. My body is sound, my mind is sound, and I am beyond lucky. I don’t have any flaws. I never did. I love this body, and I am going to do my damndest never to take it for granted again.
Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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Mental Clutter Causes Physical Clutter

Over at the 365 Days of Decluttering Challenge blog, guest blogger MaryJo Monroe graciously accepted my invitation for her to share her expertise.

In this month's Focus Challenge, she identifies 7 mental clutter culprits that cause physical clutter and challenges us to use that insight to zero in on the clutter hiding in our home because it's been shielded by mental clutter.

MaryJo Monroe is a professional organizer in Portland, Oregon with a passion for clutter control and inexpensive decorating. In addition to being a professional organizer, home stager and home redesigner (using what her clients already own), she also writes at reSPACEd, a blog offering ideas on home design and organization for the budget-conscious. Links to posts by her have been mentioned in the TCOY Lessons From My Favorite Bloggers series (January / April).

If you have an idea for a future Focus Challenge, I'd love to share it. Please send it to me via email (address is in my profile) or you can include it in a comment on this post. I will be attributing it to you so be sure to include a website, Twitter ID, etc. if you'd like it mentioned.

Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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Quote to Reflect Upon (May10)


When you have a baby you have five years of hard labor ahead of you. If you don't get it over at the beginning, you've got it coming to you later.
- John Bowlby


(Found via I Choose Change and it was attributed to Unknown...here is an attribution that I found on the web.


Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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