12 Quotes by Dana K. White

I have a make-it-work personality, and I’m quick to readjust in many situations where this trait serves me well. But I also, unfortunately, readjust in situations where I shouldn’t.

An easier-to-manage home will mean less wasted food in the future. Get that? Less wasted food is the goal.

Touch things. I’ve said it again and again. Look. Always, always look. Assuming what is in a box or at the back of a shelf does no good whatsoever. But assuming is the hardest thing for me to fight in my war against clutter. I see a mass of stuff and assume it’s full of emotions. I assume every last item in the pile, box, or closet will rip my heart right out of my chest. Every single item will represent a part of life I’m not ready to accept is over.

Remember your goals are “better” and “less,” so progress is everything.

Giving yourself permission to do something without the pressure of solving this never-ending problem once and for all is giving yourself permission to get started.

Envisioning perfection inhibits more than it inspires.

Decluttering is stuff you don’t need leaving your house. And that’s really all it is. If five things leave or five hundred things leave, you’ve succeeded.

I didn’t decide anything. I didn’t figure out anything. I just accepted that limits were limits. And accepting limits was strangely freeing.

I can pick up a bad habit in three days flat and struggle for years to break it. A good habit, however, causes emotional angst and physical pain to create, but I can break it in less than twenty-four hours.