Space hack #5: The miracle of decluttering

(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…in the first book, I was also having to set up stuff…