Last month, I wrote about how decluttering your physical and visual spaces can help with mental clarity and creativity.

But I’m well aware that sometimes decluttering is just plain hard. Personally, I’ve read a LOT of books and listened to a LOT of people sharing their personal hacks, systems, and philosophies aimed at streamlining the process, and I’d say most of these systems/philosophies really boil down to two basic ideas:

a) Keep only the things that you really love (or as Marie...