I KNOW that I’m not the only one walking around my house today, Christmas tree gone, lovely ever-green swags tossed, but STUFF almost swamping me! Where DID all this STUFF come from anyway?

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/5817590/list/Clutter-vs–Keepers–A-Guide-to-New-Year-s-Purging

After all the holiday chocolate, desserts, treats, you now how you resolve that you’ll get back on the “wagon?” Well, as we face a new year, perhaps it’s expected that we’ll “get back on the wagon” with regard to ordering our lives: a new calendar; a fresh checkbook date to write; time to write goals for 2013. Beyond de-cluttering your living space (check out the link above), here are some coaching questions you might like to consider:

• What items would go if you took 30 minutes to really look for stuff you don’t need?
• If you wrote five goals for 2013, what would they be?
• What is one activity which has gotten way out of control, needs to be tamed?
• Who has been claiming an undue share of emotional attention?
• How would you like to work on that?
• What one new activity could you initiate which might really change things for the better?

Gray dark days invite us “inside” ourselves. It’s a great time to actually notice what’s cluttering our lives. It’s a great time to do a bit of house cleaning…and I don’t mean dusting!

A blessed, joy-filled new year to you and yours.

p.s. Please comment to me about your replies to the questions above. I’d LOVE to hear feedback.