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The Downsizing Workbook

The Objects You Keep and the Life You're Choosing

You are not holding onto things. You are holding onto who you were.

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For the person who knows downsizing is a self-clarification project and has been putting off the hard decisions about what the objects mean.

You'll produce:your Your Downsizing Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Downsizing is not a decluttering project. It is a self-clarification project that happens to involve a lot of boxes. This workbook names what the objects mean — and helps you make decisions that match the life you are choosing. Your Downsizing Agreement is yours when you finish. The output is not an empty house. It is clarity.

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Sample questions

  1. Which objects are you keeping — and what does each one say about the life you're choosing?
  2. What are you giving away or releasing that is harder than it looks on the surface?
  3. What does a smaller life that is actually larger in the ways that matter look like for you?

Research basis

Draws on Csikszentmihalyi's research on objects and meaning, Social Baseline Theory, PERMA, and decision-fatigue research by Baumeister.

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Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

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