Amy Revell

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.

And what I want to talk about is how those four things, what the outcome actually looks like, because they are also the outcomes that I hear people talk about all the time.

and clinically and in our session work with clients, these four things come out over and over and over again, hence why I've been teaching it for years and years.

And now I have research to back it up, which is really exciting.

So the first thing I want to go into is this greater wellbeing.

Here's a quote from one of the participants in the study.

I feel much calmer and relaxed, less stressed.

I feel like I've got space just to curl up on a comfy chair with a book and not worry about the things around me.