Declutter Your Environment

After eating raw for a while you will notice changes within yourself. You are cleaning your desk, putting things into place in your kitchen, cutting the lawn before it is too long. You feel a natural urge to clean your outside world after you purified your body. Now you aren’t stuffing yourself with junk food anymore, it feels as unnatural to live in a cluttered environment.

It feels good to enter a room that is nice and fresh. It feels great to sit down in an office with a cleared desk, ready for a new day of work. Space around you creates space in your mind.

So taking the next step makes sense: get rid of the clutter that has its grip on you since years. Clear out financial situations that are a burden on your shoulders. Set up easy systems that help you to keep things updated and in place. Map out your day or a next action that will bring you closer to mental freedom. Everything that gets its own place opens new space for possibilities you couldn’t see before and who can improve your life.

De-cluttering your house has a very detoxifying effect on the mind, the way you are thinking and the degree you are able to organize your work, your life and yourself.  A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind. When you find yourself stuck in your work, when you feel constantly overwhelmed, not knowing where to start anymore and watching the chaos grow you might need help. These situations often get so bad you simply can’t make any moves and think of a way where to start. Although you know that radical action is required to get unstuck, you feel paralyzed and only get behind more and more.

You can take some simple steps to get started here too.

1. Set your goal. What do you want to achieve? How do you want your office to be? What would it need to feel nice, a place that is welcoming you in the morning and stimulating your day over and over again?
2. Write down your ideas about what would make you feel better.
3. Try to work out a plan and set a date you want to start and to be finished. Set your mind on letting go of things.
4. Think of a nice reward for yourself, what you would like to do or to buy you never allowed yourself before. Pin it up as a reminder of what you will receive when your project is finished. Look forward to it.
5. Take one place, one project that needs your special attention.
6. Try to start with the hardest one, the place that will take most of your energy and needs the most care; it will feel great that you had the courage to deal with the big drag.  It can only become easier afterward! This too is a reward.
7. If you can’t deal with the toughest clutter in your house, start with small projects that make a difference to you. You can clear out one or two drawers a day or clear your desk surface, take out old clothes of one part of your wardrobe or arrange one section in your kitchen. But stay in the same room so you see the results soon.
8. Throw out all that you aren’t using and have been gathering for years without any purpose. Give each item a percentage according to  you use it. How long haven’t you used it? Months, years? How many percentage that you will use it again? 50? 60? 30? If not 80% for sure; throw it out or give it to someone who will be pleased with it. I know, it is hard sometimes but once it has gone you will feel relieved and wonder why you kept it that long.
9. Now you created space, you will feel liberated from all that was holding you back to feel good.
10. Maybe you might want to freshen up the space, give it a lick of paint, paint one wall in your favorite color. It doesn’t have to cost a lot but it has a great effect. The room will feel bright and clean, you can breathe again.
11. Install enough light so you aren’t working in the dark, which can be very fatiguing, depressing and getting you off your concentration.
12. Move the furniture around, change things until you find a set up which is appealing to you.
13. What are your favorite objects you like having around and who are inspiring you? Maybe you like some flowers on your desk, you want a picture of your loved ones close to you, or a nice painting on the wall? Make it look welcome.
14. If you are remaking your office, put a board up where you can pin up a schedule with your planning of the week. it will help you to stay focused and it feels good to tick what you have done.
15. Once you have a room reorganized, it is much easier to keep it clean. Clean it every week and keep up with the good vibe!

You are now ready for the next room… Once you get started you will feel energized and motivated by the results and their effects on your life. Keep going until you have all the clutter removed and created the space you need to live the life you want.

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