FOUR MAGIC WORDS CUT CLUTTER?

What if dealing with our stuff is as simple as doing two things?

Start something

Finish something

Of course, joining a gym so you can lift Fred's junk out of the hall isn't the type of Start I had in mind.

 I don't want you to quit your job so you have time to Finish tearing everything out of the garage in search of the tax records from 2001.

I've seen the lists.  I've made the lists.  Lists like:

Finished coloring my hair

Finished my mani/pedi. 

Finished washing the bedding.

But my stuff was still all over the place.

As I've mentioned before, a wise and talented man (who got very prosperous, by the way) told me to make my bed.  Just make my bed. No explanation.  Years later I heard the reason:  Making my bed is finishing something.  It reminds me how simple it can be to finish something. Something like opening the box marked T, discovering the tax files, chucking them in a file cabinet.

My latest list looked like:

Start buying and using pants and skirt hangers that actually work

Start looking for some hangers that don't dump things on the floor

Start putting books to return in a small bag so they won't be everywhere

Made me much happier about my clothes, the car interior, and getting dressed.  BUT: 

We only have to start one (1) thing: Just one thing off a start list.

We only have to mark off a tiny section of the cabinets and start removing junk.   

Great habits start with one Start.