Organize Your Organization
When working on decluttering and organizing a room in your home, be sure to take multiple boxes or bags with you to keep your process as tidy as your room will soon be.
Use 5 separate boxes:
1. Trash
2. Donations
3. Things that belong in another room
4. Things to give to a family member or friend
5. “Think it over” items.What are “think it over” items?
Those are the things that you’re not quite sure what to do with at the moment. Put those “not sure” items all in one box and then put that box away. Revisit them at a later date and see if you’re ready to decide where they’ll go.
Acknowledge Your Feelings First
Why is it that we find it so difficult to acknowledge what we feel? Most of us put our feelings on the backburner. However, the first step to decluttering our minds involves understanding our innermost feelings.
What are you feeling today? Stressed? Anxious or simply tired? Or are you feeling happy?
Whatever it is, be true to yourself and acknowledge it. Only then will you be able to follow the next steps to successfully declutter your mind.
Clever Remote Control Storage
If you’re tired of your video game or TV controllers being left all over the place (and inevitably getting lost), then you’ll love this simple hack:
Place Velcro strips on the controllers and on the surfaces, you want to keep them, like the side of an end table. Hang them up when you’re done using them and you’ll always know where to find them!
Spend Time with People Who Give Back to You
There are a lot of people you come into contact in your life. Some of them are neutral, some drain your energy, and some fill your cup.
Spend more time with those people who fill your cup. Let yourself be inspired by them, let them be inspired by you.
Imagine there is a string of light or energy between you and anyone you talk to. When you send energy to them through that string and they don’t send their own energy in return, you become depleted. But when that other person tosses energy back to you like a well-choreographed tennis match, you will be filled and renewed.
Get Out of Town
Remove yourself from your environment for a few days (or more) now and then. Getting out of your cluttered space can give you some much-needed time away to reassess what it is you really want.
Being away from your environment takes away the clutter of to-do lists, and bills, and all of the things you know need doing, but you haven’t gotten to them yet.
When you return refreshed, you’ll have a new perspective on what is important and what can wait.
Sweat, Glisten, Glow!
When you sweat you release toxins. Think about how someone smells if they’ve been drinking a lot and they’re sweaty. Gross, right? It’s their body working to get the toxins out.
It’s healthy for us to sweat now and then. Take a brisk walk, take a cardio class, sit in a sauna, sit in the sun, do whatever you enjoy to allow your body to sweat it out now and then.
Let Your Belongings Have a Purpose
When decluttering your home, it can be difficult to let go of items when attachments to them are emotional and strong, even if they live in a closet or storage area. Try to think in terms of “things deserve to be used.”
You aren’t honoring your things if they’re packed away and never see the light of day. Re-home them to give some other owner the joy of using them in the way they were intended.