Decluttering: Resetting Your Home and Mind for an Intentional Life with Ingrid Jansen

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and a productivity boost to boot, you're gonna love this conversation with Ingrid Jensen. Well, it is my privilege to welcome to the show Ingrid Yansen. Ingrid, welcome to Beyond the To-do list. Thank you very much. I love a list, Eric, so I'm hoping that I'm in the wrong place. Oh, you definitely are. You definitely are. So your book, Reset Your Home, that you co-authored. feels like a breath of fresh air for anybody that's overwhelmed with clutter and I just want to start by th asking why do you think it's so hard for people to let go of their stuff even when they know it's what's holding them back?

Oh. That's how long it's a piece of stream question, Eric, but I will do my best to answer. I think what we see a lot in all of the years that Leslie and I have been professional organizers is that a lot of people focus on the stuff the whole time. What am I gonna do with the stuff? Where's the stuff gonna go? How am I gonna get rid of it? Where am I gonna chuck it out? And we kind of took a step back from that and went But it's not about the stuff. It's about the emotions that sit behind the stuff.

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