Too Much Stuff? Start Decluttering Here (The Japanese Order That Actually Works)

When a room is so full you cannot walk across it, most of us start with whatever is closest to the door. That is usually the hardest decision in the whole room, and it is why we give up twenty minutes later. In this video I walk you through a different order. Five steps, and the first one involves no decisions at all: Find the floor (lift, do not sort) Take out the easy and obvious The "later" box: permission to keep what you are not ready to decide on Plan for more than one pass Quick wins on ordinary days If you only do one thing after watching, clear the floor of the room you have been avoiding. Do not decide anything. Just lift, then stand in the middle. Chapters 0:00 Why you always start in the wrong place 0:57 It is not laziness: what the research says 1:53 Step 1: Find the floor 4:47 Step 2: The easy and the obvious 7:44 Step 3: The "later" box 10:42 Step 4: More than one pass 13:34 Step 5: Quick wins 16:12 The five steps in order Research mentioned Saxbe & Repetti (2010), UCLA: home tours of 60 dual-income couples; wives who described their homes as cluttered showed flatter daily cortisol patterns. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. McMains & Kastner (2011), Princeton: many objects in view at once compete for attention. Journal of Neuroscience 31(2). Tell me in the comments: which step has tripped you up before, and which room is your "too much" room? #declutter #decluttering #japaneseliving