GET PROACTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO DOWNSIZING
Shane Bone, owner and founder of Simple Steps Consulting in Eagleville, Montgomery County, is in the middle of a downsizing project with a client and is using her expertise in home organizing to aid them in reducing their possessions.
It’s not unusual for her to help clients ages 60 and over who are in a stage of their lives where they want to move to a smaller home or simply want to reduce the clutter they have amassed over the course of decades.
What she has learned since she established her business in 2016 is that the emotional component to being attached to stuff is one layer of the process that her business is equipped to tackle instead of brush aside.
That is why their initial step is to determine and work through how emotionally attached a client is to what they have. Bone expressed a respect for the fact that she is helping people navigate through chapters of their lives.
“Many struggle with an emotional attachment to a lot of their things,” Bone said. “Some on our team have a therapy and coaching background, and we come in with a really gentle and capable approach in helping them deal with that chaos and clutter that had accumulated around them.”
Next, she begins to start breaking down the barriers based on what are easy decisions to make upfront. These are what she refers to as easy asks that don’t require emotional processing.