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Today we welcome professional organizer Pooja Gugnani, founder and owner of Organizing with You in Chicago, and her advice on changing your mindset about clutter.

Imagine yourself in a state of organized bliss, where all parts of your life merge seamlessly together because you know where everything is and where it belongs. Not a far-fetched dream if you can recognize that organizing involves your brain as much as your brawn.

Throughout my professional organizing career, the biggest challenge I encounter is modifying my clients’ acquisition of things. It is easier to organize belongings than to change the way we think about buying new things. I’ve spent more time trying to get clients to eliminate the desire to collect things than to create an organizing system for them.

I recognize that our society is designed to foster consumerism and we all know that it’s the backbone of our economy. So, how do we fight our desire to buy? How do we conquer years of instilled desire to purchase and accumulate? Here are five easy yet powerful tips for you:

• Saying is believing. Replace saying “I don’t have enough” with “I have more than enough.” Train your mind to be content by actually saying it out loud.
• Make space, not mess. Instead of finding ways to create more storage to fit your clutter, think of ways to create more space by eliminating your clutter. Get creative! Storage systems and organizing products sure are wonderful — I could live in The Container Store if they would let me — but nothing is more visually appealing and satisfying than adding the space and the freedom to move around easily in your environment.
• I see clutter. Learn how to identify clutter. I don’t just mean spotting the mess around you or recognizing which things which are out of place. As you’re sorting through your things, be wary of what I call “red alert” phrases. If the phrase “this may come in handy someday” or “I didn’t know I had this” is attached to an object, it is time to reevaluate if it belongs in your home anymore.
• Face amnesia. When you come across an item in your home or office that you had forgotten about, there’s a 50 percent chance that you didn’t miss it enough to go looking for it — and most likely it has lost its utility in your life. Feel comfortable getting rid of these things.
• Detach and donate. The toughest phase of the downsizing process is finding the heart to dispose things you’ve owned for years, or that have memories attached to them. The best way to part with your “favorite” things is to know it will find a good home again. I encourage clients to personally donate their possessions to a family member, a child in the neighborhood or a drop-off at a volunteer event. It is particularly rewarding to see firsthand your favorite stuffed toy in good hands, bringing a smile to a new face. And once you experience that joy, it will be easier for you to give things away.

Above are just some of the ways to modify your thinking before you modify your surroundings. From this day forward, think of buying anything large or small as an investment and weigh its usefulness carefully before you pull out your wallet.

Your mind is a powerful tool, so don’t be afraid to use it to your advantage as you get organized.

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Perhaps trying to outdo last year, with Jaime Hayon‘s giant chess set installed in Trafalgar Square, the London Design Festival has announced that for 2010 they’ve paired with Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar, the designers/architects and regular Rem Koolhaas/Prada collaborators, to dream something up for the Square when the fest kicks off in mid-September. What they’ve delivered, of course, is robots. Robots that make pretty things out of light:

The installation titled “Outrace” consists of an immense mechanical octopus assembled from six industrial robotic arms on loan from Audi’s production line. Custom software developed by the designers will allow members of the public to temporarily take over the installation and render text input as light traces drawn by the synchronized mechanical tentacles. The resulting light paintings will be recorded using specialized high definition video equipment and published online.

Beyond the fest and its joy-manufacturing robots, it’s been (as far as we’ve been able to find) informally announced that Neville Brody, famous designer and from the Visit London blog:

Based in and around Redchurch Street, events will include a “microplex” cinema seating just five people. Brody says, “You can see us as an ugly sister or an ugly cousin of the Design Festival. It’s time to tear up the plans and see what happens. You’re all invited!”

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