FlexiLingo
Ep. 260: The Real Reason You Keep Falling Behind at Home
Send us Fan Mail I want to tell you something that might surprise you. I don't think you're falling behind because you're disorganized. I don't think you're lazy. And honestly, I don't even think you have a cleaning problem. I think you have a definition of success that only works when life is easy. And since life is rarely easy, you're constantly feeling like you're failing. If you've ever looked around your house and thought, "How did it get this bad… again?"—this episode is for...
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Well, there comes this point in midlife, I find, when clutter starts feeling different. It's no longer just the pile of mail on the counter or the closet that's a little bit too full. It begins to feel heavier than that. You walk into a room and you immediately feel behind. You open up a cabinet and you think, I really need to deal with this. Every unfinished space
quietly reminds you of everything you haven't gotten around to yet. And if you've ever wondered why clutter suddenly feels so emotionally exhausting, you're not imagining the fact that it is. The clutter didn't necessarily change, though. You did. By midlife, most of us have accumulated decades of stuff, right? We have kids' artwork. We have all the things. And so I want to walk
you today through a pattern that I see constantly in my clients. I see it in my friends. I see it in myself for years. And the pattern is this. Your house feels manageable. You're on top of it. Things are humming along. But then life gets busy. Work ramps up or a kid gets sick or the holidays hit or you're just tired in that I'm bone deep tired and there's nothing I can do about it.
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