Cleaning up and clearing up can have powerful and profound consequences. It makes things very clear in your mind, because your bedroom (even) is one of the biggest influences on how you see yourself and your world. It’s the last thing you see at night. The first thing you see in the morning.

You are virtually hypnotising yourself with what you see around you. It’s constant advertising. Stage designers in the theatre place props very carefully and deliberately to send messages to the audience about the story – the theme – the characters.

What are you designing as your props in the stage set that is your room or home? This also applies to the things you hide. The things you know you have, tucked away, in a kind of ‘out of sight, out of mind’ way – yet they are never out of your mind at all.