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Recently, I have been coming across a lot of literature around decluttering. In fact, one of the articles I last read recommended that I throw out or donate any shoes or clothes I had not worn in the last one year. Not a suggestion I received with as much positivity as I should have.
The first thing I thought was ‘what if I donate x item only to need it two weeks down the line?’ Then I reminded myself that the adage goes that if you want to attract what is new and better in your life, you must consciously make space for it.
Effects of clutter
The more I researched into living a clutter free life the more I realised that being a minimalist is intricately linked to all areas of our lives, not just our wardrobes. It is the bank statements that we keep from ten years ago with the reason that ‘we might just need it one day’.
The DVDs and CDs we have watched but continue to take up space and gather dust in our living rooms, the email lists and message we have subscribed to that make it impossible to find the information we are really looking for when we need it. It is the debt that we continue to accumulate and the bad spaces we inhabit (such as bad friends who make us feel worse instead of better about ourselves) and the un-responded to requests that keep us from clearing our mind.
It is unlikely that, given a list of 10 ways to declutter your mind and space, you can effectively implement all of them. But there is a certain joy to making small steps, and seeing how these make you feel.
Small steps
In order to know the most effective places to begin decluttering, look around your space, both work and home and identify where you waste the most time.
It could be meals for the family, deciding what to wear in the morning or finding stuff in the kitchen.
Pick just one area and pay attention to how to make it work. Set up meal plans, rearrange your closet or throw out expired, unused, stale items from the kitchen pantry.
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