Amy Revell

Hello and welcome to the Art of Decluttering podcast.

I'm your host, Amy Revell.

Welcome back to another week of like, let's get our clutter out of the way.

Let's live the best lives that we can.

Today, I wanna talk to you about the motivation and the benefits of decluttering.

So it's almost like a full step back to right at the start.

So what would motivate you to declutter?

And I want to present you with some motivations that you can consider if you're like, should I declutter or not?

And those motivations also have clear and correlated benefits.

And so I want to go into both of those with you.

What I'm referring to, and there's a paper that I'll be going to that Dr. Rebecca Blackburn came on the show earlier in the year to talk about.

And these are identified, it was a paper on low consumption lifestyle.

And one of the things that they looked at was motivation as to why people chose to live low consumption lifestyles.

Why did people choose to live a life of minimalism?

And beautifully, and she would not have known this and I didn't know this, but for a long time I've had like these models of why would you want to engage in decluttering?

What are the benefits of it?

And what I've been teaching for probably seven or eight years is the exact direct correlation to what the study showed, which was really exciting to see that come out in a research paper and have clinical evidence behind it.

So the motivations for decluttering and living a minimalist lifestyle and being an organized person, so kind of all that rolled into one, one of the highest motivations was greater well-being.

financial benefits, more time and ethical considerations.

So those were the four motivations of why people started the journey.