Clutter

I’m going to ask you a simple, yet very complex question. What is cluttering your life? It could be habits, relationships, stuff, exercise choices (or lack of them), healthy eating choices (or lack of them) and many, many other things.

We all have something cluttering our lives. In fact, if we’re honest, we probably have a few things, physical and otherwise, that clutter our lives. That huge first step is identifying what the clutter is. It could be allowing social media to take up more time in our day that it should (raises hand), or the physical stuff cluttering up your house, leading you to be feeling disorganized, unproductive and frustrated.

Once you’ve identified the clutter....how do you get rid of it? Or, to start, how do you make it more manageable? Is that scheduling the time you allow yourself social media? Is it starting with a drawer or a room and going through and figuring out what is needed and beneficial for your life? It’s those little steps that start to build momentum toward real, long lasting change.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about resolutions, we make our resolutions or what we’re going to change much more grandiose and unachievable than they need to be. But more than that, we have this perfectionism mentality. That, if we can’t do it perfectly, we shouldn’t even try. You will not immediately eliminate all of your clutter whether it is physically, relationships, habits, whatever the case may be. But you have to determine what is causing the clutter, how best to start dealing with it....and then deal with it. When you get off track (and you will), you get back on track, give yourself grace and DO NOT QUIT. You can do it. One step at a time. Start with figuring out what is causing the clutter in your life. Write it down. Then write down 2-3 steps to help you get rid of the clutter. Then put it somewhere visible, where you can be reminded of it regularly. And then do it!