Anything. But Not Everything
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What does it mean to keep anything but not everything?
Hello and welcome to the Art of Decluttering podcast. I am your host, Amy Revell. So great to be back with you this week. We've had a couple of banger episodes in the last few weeks. And I really wanted to come back to a phrase that was mentioned, just a phrase that was mentioned in my episode with Dana K. White. And so we're going to come back to that in just a minute. I wanted to start off by just telling you a little bit of an update. The podcast, I've decided to stick with YouTube, you guys. You know, we started at the start of the year and I said I was going to give it six months. It's been about five months. And the way that I know I'm going to stick with it, A, is lots of you are watching, so that's really cool.
But I decided this week that I'm actually going to create a proper podcast studio in the house, which we have the space to do. We have a little bit of a room between a thoroughfare going out to Cal's office outside. And so it's not quite a bedroom. It's kind of this in-between space. I'd offered it to the kids. I was like, does anyone want it for gaming, for sports, for music? They were both like, nope, we're quite happy. I'm going to turn it into a podcast studio. So this week I've been picking wall colors and getting some lights delivered and doing a few different things. So that makes my little podcast heart happy. If you are an audio listener, great, excellent. Nothing will change. You can just imagine me sitting on a more comfortable couch and
with a less distracting background. Like that's kind of what's going to change. The rest will be the same. But I do know that sometimes when you start out with something, particularly as an ADHDer, it can be tempting to go and buy all the things. And so I'm quite proud of myself that I've managed to kind of put myself out there going like, hey, is YouTube the thing? And turns out it is. And so now is a time for me to invest in that I don't think the plants are going anywhere. If you go to any room in my house, to be honest, there are always lots of plants. But it'll be nice not to have a window that looks out into my backyard and a random door and some of those things will change. So hopefully it'll be a little bit less cluttered.
But we needed to have time to get there. So I'll put some photos on socials as I start to do that. As I said, paint testing has started this week. I'm going for like a deep green. I've looked at a deep teal and I'm just kind of trying to get that right. So it's a bit of a fun project. I love a little bit of DIY. My sister Laura has been over helping pick colors and design things with me. So that's been super fun. So keep your eyes out over the next probably couple of weeks. That'll start to come together. And then, yeah, I'll be able to start recording in that space, which will be fun. So back to this week's episode, the phrase that Dana said was, you can keep anything, but you can't keep everything. You can keep anything, but not everything.
And a few of you commented and let me know like that phrase really stuck with you. And so I thought what I would do is give a whole episode to this phrase and to what it means underneath it and to what that practically means for you guys. So I want to think about that limits are really what we're talking about here, that you can keep anything. So you've got freedom and you have choice and you have the ability to kind of look after yourself, make the decisions that you think are best. You've got that autonomy. But when it says you can't keep everything is because there are limits. Even someone with severe hoarding disorder does not keep everything because there are limits the limit might be their house or their house and their garden or their house and their garden and their car but at some point that limit stops because that person's hoarding and their stuff isn't in your house and it's not in my house and so every situation that you think about there are natural limits
And limits can feel like they're a bit suffocating at times. But what I want to try and do is reframe limits from being like imposed upon you to actually being boundaries.
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