There’s actually something called a “clutter pyramid”

Both inner and outer crapola can really gum up the works.

Whew…Momover Lady isn’t used to learning so much in one week! But the day before I played fly on the wall at that great wellness panel at Pure Yoga I wrote about yesterday, I eavesdropped on a tele-seminar given by organizing powerhouse Sue Rasmussen.

The call was hosted by Leslie Evans Thorne, who bills herself as a “re-invention mentor” for those who want to switch it up, career-wise, or possibly even say buh-bye to working for the man. She can also help hot mamas like us figure out what we want to be when we grow up.

Anyway, the chat was really enlightening – and not simply because I’m the world’s foremost clutter scholar. (You have to admit I kinda am, right? I blog about clutter-busting almost as much as I write about my squishy abs.)

Okay, it’s Friday, and it’s late, and I want to watch the rest of the heart-stopping “Lost Footage” episode of RHOBH waiting for me in the DVR queue.

So allow me to “topline,” as they say in corporate-ville, Sue’s powerful idea of a clutter pyramid. Essentially, she categorizes clutter into seven different layers.

From the bottom up, they are:

1. Physical clutter (I.e., the towering stacks of unread Vogues and WWDs that seem to accumulate in every room of my house)

2. Virtual clutter (I.e., the literally thousands of two-line emails from 2008 that are gumming up my computer)

3. Time clutter (I.e., wasting a single second on television shows that aren’t one-tenth as life-altering as, say, Downton Abbey, Boardwalk Empire or the afore-mentioned RHOBH)

4. Relationship clutter (I.e., that frenemy who always insists on getting together, but invariably leaves me feeling b-a-d)

5. Body clutter (I.e., the morning coffee I can’t seem to shake, and that half of box of Lorna Doones I scarfed after pick-up today)

6. Mind clutter (I.e., the negative self-talk that surfaces from time to time, temporarily derailing my plans to take over the universe)

7. Energy clutter (I.e., the “How am I gonna pull this off?” feeling I have when the alarm clock jolts me out of bed some mornings)

According to Sue – and I totally believe her – if you have one of these tell-tale layers of clutter, you’re bound to have others. That’s why I’d love to take her group class, Streamline Your Success. As evidenced by the tidy list above, I could certainly use it.

But right now, I just want to have a chuckle with my dear (imaginary) pal, Lisa of the Louboutins.

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