When you feel you are in control of everything in your circumstances, you may spend too much time thinking about what you would like to do with more time.
Take what you’re just working on right now and ask yourself (or a capable friend) what you’ve just done that you’re proud of? As you read this, take a minute and acknowledge the fact that there’s always room for improvement.
Let’s do some room clearing:
Give things away. Put things in the trash that you are not using. vacuum and give things away to your family. Say you don’t have that room you want to redo because, of course, it’s yours – but maybe you can find other uses for it (or can’t find another place in the same location)? As you give things away, the more you put things away you are making space for the things that will be in your life.
Create a system. Have you been unnecessarily putting things down and insisting on your way of doing things, for example by reuseing packing tape? Consider carefully looking at your system and its processes and see if there are better ways for you (or for the family) to send things with your papers (or need something simpler to deliver to the printer). Look at what you need all the time in the world (and at any other place, for that matter). Have your paper comes out on time, in its packaged, and pre-sorted “receipt form”?
Don’t hold onto stuff for those lonely days you put them in the box…but also, on cluttered surfaces – toss!
In what ways can you save your back and your head? What will you get rid of now? Would you like to have more room to play in? What will you do to change that?
Recently, we destroyed:
All these things represent clutter and are now cleared out, and we are one step closer to our ” appeared ” smiley-happy” face.
We get rid of junk as we can, so that we may live in the present – and choose anything that we wish – wants or desires.
We want to see what there is of improvement in ourselves – and in others around us – now while it is happening. However, we may never see the result. We just want to stop feeling like the clutter is surrounding us.
Ask more questions. When you are about to pass by something in your house, for example, ask “Why am I here?” or “What can I do to the best of my ability in this situation?”
Make a decision not to take that one thing on its face value. Maybe it was worthless, but that thought has only made your mind more keenly aware of the item. You now know what it is without a word ever reaching out and making itself known.
If we looked for a little bit deeper we might even find that we have been using something, like an old habit (or any habit) for a number of years. Why are you letting it run its course for that long?
Make the decision to really let go! And, from this point, start letting change happen.
Feel it shot in the morning. When your routine takes a twist, you feel it in your head. It’s not so much a physical sensation as a mental one. Nothing can be done about it. It is as it is and can be removed totally.
Leave your clutter. It is hard sometimes, when we finally reach the point of not hanging onto their physical items, not to feel the frustration that comes from not moving things inertly to dust analysts. Once they arrived, they were shot in the morning of the moment. Give yourself a break, and consciously decide to leave your clutter, every time you need to dust it. It’s then a lot easier for things to just fly away.
Hire professional assistance. Often, clutter is such a huge issue for all of us, that we play it off as something sporing to hurt ourselves, sabotage our work and distract us from what we really ought to be doing. In many cases, we can make an appointment with our strategic planner, or we can change our schedule and start to consider “clutter3.” It’s fun to look at clutter like this because when our clutter is gone, we very quickly get back up and say, “It’s time to get back up and take action!”
