The clutter around us is a reflection of the clutter inside of us. Maybe they don’t directly correlate, but there is a reason for every bit of clutter around your house, in your car, and on your desk. By clearing the clutter, you can simultaneously work through the reasons the junk made it there in the first place. Clear out your clutter and free your mind.
This post is part of a 14 part series on How to Be a Better Person. I’ve also super-duper fancied this group of posts up into an Amazon Kindle book. Check it out: Forget Perfect, Just Be Better: 101 Simple Ways to Grow in Relationships, at Work, in Life, and Through God.
1) Chunk the Junk
From the day home builders starting putting in big basements, attics, and roomy garages, people have been finding ways to collect more stuff. Huge piles of empty boxes, appliances that were only use once, and exercise machines that were never taken out of the box. They have become rooms that store the junk we don’t want to deal with.
It’s kind of like those beliefs that held you back when you were a child. There were monsters under your bed, so you couldn’t sleep or walk around at night, right? Every bit of clutter you have is a story waiting to be finished. Open stories are open loops in your mind – taking processing power away from doing what matters.
Get your resources back by chunking the junk pile in the garage, attic, and basement. No, you don’t actually need that stuff. No, you won’t get rich selling it on eBay®. No, you won’t need it in 5 years. No, your friends don’t care about Christmas cards from 13 years ago.
Close those old programs and reboot your machine, it’s time to start fresh.