Decluttered By Design
Weekly tips to help you declutter your life, so you can live your best life! Host Kelly Jayne McCann, a clutter coach, professional organizer and intentional living mentor, provides practical guidance to help people overcome the emotional hurdles that keep them tethered to clutter. As the founder of OrganizingMaven.com, she's helped people all over the world shift their mindsets and build the habits that allow them to live clutter-free. Each episode focuses on a single idea and provides a quick call to action - nothing fussy, nothing complicated. It's decluttered by design, just the way life should be!
Episodes
37 episodes
How To Overcome Fear and Take Action
I am sharing a foolproof two-step process to help you overcome anxiety from all the 'what if' scenarios that get in the way of taking confident action. If you've been pussyfooting around because you're afraid you'll regret your decision ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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14:04
How To Finish The Year Strong (and why it matters so much!)
Want to know how your 2023 is going to unfold? Then look at how your 2022 finished. Endings have an outsized influence on beginnings, so if you want to start the new year strong, then you need to finish this year on a high note. Lu...
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12:44
How Self-Care Can Help You Declutter Your Life
Engaging in the right kind of self-care might be one of the quickest ways to begin decluttering your life. Spoiler: I'm not talking about spa days and meditation retreats. Not that there's anything wrong with those, but t...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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8:07
The Number One Reason Decluttering and Organizing Projects Fail
What do decluttering and organizing have in common? They're both projects, right? This means to be your most effective you need to put on your project manager hat. Why? Because one of the biggest threats ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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6:47
How To Push Past Fear Quickly and Easily (for real!)
If you're not doing everything you want to do, it's probably because fear is tricking you into staying stuck. Sounds harsh, but for most of us, it's true. Fear often stops us from taking action and following through on our ambitions. Luckily, w...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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7:52
Clarify Your Goals: How To Know Exactly What Goal To Focus On First
When you have multiple goals, trying to decide which goal to focus on first can be crazy-making. Far too often, we bounce back and forth, doing some of this, some of that, and never making much progress on any of them. It's frustrating to...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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8:30
Part 6: Bridging The Gap Between Dreaming and Doing - How To Keep Your Energy Up
This mini-season focuses on bridging the gap between dreaming and doing. We're on episode 6 of 6, where I'm sharing a strategy to help you keep your energy level up. Spoiler: It's not about exercise, nutrition, or getting more rest....
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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14:06
Part 5: Bridging The Gap Between Dreaming and Doing - Why Leniency is as Important as Discipline
This mini-season focuses on bridging the gap between dreaming and doing. We're on episode 5 of 6 where I'm sharing why leniency toward yourself is as important as discipline. If you're struggling with building discipline you need ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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9:46
Part 4: Bridging The Gap Between Dreaming and Doing - Why Belief in Yourself Is Critical & How To Develop It
This mini-season focuses on bridging the gap between dreaming and doing. We're on episode 4 of 6 where I'm sharing why belief in yourself is actually the deciding factor in whether you succeed or not. If you're struggl...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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9:09
Part 3: Bridging The Gap Between Dreaming and Doing - Why Awareness Is Essential and How To Practice It
This mini-season focuses on bridging the gap between dreaming and doing. We're on episode 3 of 6 where we're learning why you must practice self-awareness and I'm sharing two ways to help you become more aware. One is specific to de...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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15:55
Part 2: Bridging The Gap Between Dreaming and Doing - How To Be More Intentional
This mini-season focuses on bridging the gap between dreaming and doing using the VIABLE Goal Framework. It's a process that will help you gain clarity around your vision and create consistency so you can bring that vision to life. We're on epi...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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10:31
Part 1: Bridging The Gap Between Dreaming and Doing - The 3 Critical Elements of a VIABLE Goal
Ready to bridge the gap between dreaming and doing? This episode will help you do it. Before we dive in, you should know that this is the first in a 6 part series, or mini-season if you will, where I am going to walk you through a process...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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24:12
Decluttering: How To Hush The Little Voice That Says "You Should Keep It"
You made a decision, you're ready to let something go. Yay for you! But then that little voice pipes up and says, "Hey, what are you doing, girl? That might be useful someday. You shouldn't give it away." You stop and think, "Maybe I'm ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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7:03
How To Fall In Love With Your Schedule
Have you ever woken up and realized that the day ahead of you is going to feel like nails on a chalkboard sound? Or worse, realized that just before drifting off to dreamland, meaning sleep is not exactly going to be your friend? If not, count ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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4:29
The Silver Lining To A Covid Holiday Season
This is the perfect year to declutter your holiday traditions. If you've been yearning to try something new, this is your year, thanks to the pandemic.Now, I am not here to minimize what’s happening, things are serious. However, at times...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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8:47
The Sly Way Clutter Takes Root
Get ready for a story, because this episode is the sad little tale of how clutter typically takes hold. Spoiler: In general, there is no grand event to blame. Clutter is caused by (gasp!) our decisions. And not the biggies, but the everyday cho...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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4:31
Decluttering and Donations: What To Keep In Mind
You aren't truly free from the clutter until it's out of your space. So deciding where it's going to go is necessity. It's easy to get caught up wanting to find just the right place, but that's complicated and exhausting. This episode proposes ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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6:12
How To Let Go Of Clutter That "Cost Good Money"
If we feel like we're losing money, it can be much harder to let go of stuff we don't use. But the truth is pretty simple: the item isn't the same as the money was - it's now just clutter. This episode focuses on what you need to know abo...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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7:54
How To Make Sure You Don't Unwittingly Create Harmful Emotional Clutter
This episode focuses on a particular kind of emotional clutter. So often people feel bad about the things they struggle with. I don't mean bad about the struggle per se. I mean they feel bad about the *type* of situation they are ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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3:29
Why You Should Decide What Enough Is
Setting limits is a critical part of keeping your space free from clutter. It's hard to let go of the excess if you don't know what enough is, so you need to decide just how much you really need. As you lighten up, you free yourself from the bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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5:02
How To Let Love Guide You In Making Decisions
What if you could easily and consistently make better decisions? You can with one simple question. Asking yourself what feels like love will allow you to make the choices that lead to greater satisfaction. This question will help you build your...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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5:08
How To Declutter When You Want To Keep Stuff But Lack Space
Having to let go of stuff because you lack space can create resentment and make you feel angry. But if you reframe what it means, you can make it much more bearable, perhaps even feel good about it. I'm sharing a two-step solution that allows y...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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4:47
How Perfectionist Tendencies Can Sabotage Your Happiness
Are you a perfectionist? How is that working for you? I'm taking an educated guess that it makes life kind of miserable. Today I'm talking about why the tendency to strive for perfection is one the least helpful things you can do. And I've got ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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6:30
How Declutter Memorabilia
Memorabilia can be hard to declutter, even when you really want to let go. That's because memorabilia is emotionally charged. But guess what? We're the ones who created that connection. While I wouldn't call that connection artificial, I would ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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4:38
Overcoming The 'I Might Need It' Excuse
Letting go of clutter is challenging, there's no getting around that. We fear we'll make the wrong choice and regret it, so we avoid making a decision and come up with excuses to hold onto stuff. A frequent reason for holding onto the excess is...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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4:17