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Space hack #5: The miracle of decluttering

Space hack #5: The miracle of decluttering

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Space hack #5: The miracle of decluttering

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(innovative music) - [Jessica] Okay, I'll admit something. I've always been a pretty messy person. I'm not one of those that has the cleaning DNA built in. I hate doing dishes, I hate folding laundry, I hate unpacking my suitcase after a trip, I hate cleaning out my car. And for the longest time, my living and working space was a mess. My desk was always filled with clutter, and papers, and books, and coffee cups. My bookshelf was always disorganized. There was usually dishes stacked up in the sink and on the counter. There was always a pile of unfolded laundry in my closet. This was my life. Then a few years ago, I had a massive epiphany. I was struggling to get through an especially difficult manuscript. It was giving me all sorts of problems. It was the second book in my sci-fi trilogy Unremembered, and I was having to juggle 100 different plot lines, threads, and characters. And because it was the second book in a three-book series, I was not only having to pay off things I set up…

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