Improve Your Life By Removing The Clutter

One area where self-care has a major impact includes the environments where you spend time. Environmental self-care refers to indoor and outdoor locations, where you spend time. This may include at home, inside your car, at your workplace, and any area where you have some measure of control.

While clutter can include a plethora of physical objects, it’s important to understand that unhelpful, unhealthy, and inaccurate thoughts contribute to your mental clutter, such as intrusive thoughts.

Simplify

Most people need far fewer things than they think they do. It’s so easy today to end up with too many things cluttering up our physical environment, which ironically adds mental pressure, which increases mental clutter with intrusive thoughts. If you have items that you’ve not used for a full year or more, do you really need them?

Put it On a Schedule

Sometimes doing things that need to be done off schedule can add to your mental clutter. Add anything you want to accomplish to your schedule instead of relying on yourself to remember or avoid doing too much.

For example, your air conditioner filter needs to be cleaned according to the factory's directions. Put the dates in your schedule, so you know precisely when it needs to be done. Now it can be out of mind until it needs to be in your mind. Scheduling everything you really want to do, whether pleasure or work, is imperative to your success.

Get The Right Tools

Getting rid of clutter sometimes requires that you invest in the right tools. For example, if you need a garden hose, it makes sense to buy the hose and the storage solution to enable you to use it and easily put it away.

This idea works for every physical thing you buy – if you can’t also buy a place to store it or the room to use it conveniently, do you really need it? Everything you purchase or use needs a specific area to live in and a time to use it.

Learn to Say No

Sometimes people take saying no as a negative thing, but in truth, you can view it as finding a way to say yes to what you want and need with purpose rather than just learning to say no.

When someone wants your time, or you want to try something new for yourself, before you say yes or no, do your due diligence to find out if this will advance your overarching life goals or roadblock them before you jump in.

Slow Down and Be Mindful

No one can really multitask effectively because it’s not a trait human beings possess. Yes, you can do some things simultaneously that don’t need your brain to do, like walking and talking or sleeping and breathing – but if you need to switch your attention, it’s not really multitasking, and it slows you down and increases mistakes.

When you want to do anything from bathing to bookkeeping, schedule the time to do it, invest in the right equipment to make it simple, and then do it on schedule while focusing only on that one task and not everything else.

Know What You Want

Learning how to set goals is an important part of ending clutter in your life. Learning good goal-setting processes will exponentially improve your life, but setting good goals starts with knowing what you want to achieve. So please spend a few minutes focusing on what you want in life and check to make sure that your actions support what you want to achieve.

Investing in the right knowledge, skills, tools, and equipment enables you to keep your environment clutter-free and care for yourself. Ask yourself questions before you make new purchases or bring something into your environment. One of the first questions to ask yourself is how you will pay for the item. Other important questions include where will you use it most, where will you store it, what will you do with it, and when or how often will you use it? You probably don’t need the additional item if you’re unsure of the answers.

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