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When Michael and I started the Simplicity Habit, we were initially focused on task and project management, but in the evolution of the site and lots of thinking, I have found the second leg of the Simplicity Habit.

Clutter.

Merlin Mann, GTD guru and author of 43folders.com, started writing about clutter a year ago, mentioning heavily the book It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh. Walsh, host/clutter-buster on TLC’s Clean Sweep, writes very elegantly about how clutter is destroying us and if we don’t take control, it will consume us completely.

“People hold onto stuff like their kids’ old clothing as a way of holding onto the past. Or they keep things they think they might need someday as a way to control the future.”

The definition of “simple”, root of simplicity: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved. Also, dim-witted: lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety, but don’t mind that.

How many times have piles of stuff stopped us from leading a simple life? How many projects get started, stopped and then sit on the corner of a desk, gathering dust? How much stuff makes your life difficult? How many times have going into your closet felt like a task?

Most of the posts at the Simplicity Habit have focused on tasks, for the second act, welcome discussion about clutter.

“People’s homes are a reflection of their lives. It is no accident that people have a huge weight problem in this country, and clutter is the same thing. Homes are an orgy of consumption.”

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