Unclutter your life - A day at a time!

Today I would like to share with you an amazing 4- Simple Steps Approach which you can use now, to unclutter your life and free up your mind!

There have been many times when I have felt as if the whole worlds weight was on my shoulders and that was simply because of my own doing! You see when you start procrastinating you automatically start feeling the weight of your own in-actions as the time for completing a task starts to reduce.

Take this simple example for instance and you will notice exactly what I mean. The next time when you take a break and go for some tea/coffee try this. Instead of taking a sip from your freshly brewed mug and enjoying it's flavorful taste, hold it at arms length. You will initially find it easy to hold, but as the time will pass the weight of the mug would start bearing up on your hands and you will notice an incremental rise in difficulty of trying to hold it up straight! 

Now only if you had taken the sip when the brew was ready, you would have sat comfortably on your couch and enjoyed it to the very last drop! What are you waiting for? There's is no point of preparing your fresh brew and not drinking it! Correct? This true for all the thoughts that go through your mind.  It could be anything ranging from - a job you are required to get done but are not attending to for no particular reason, or when you are planning for a party but it stays in the planning stage till the very end and then you start getting paranoid about it all!  

Snap-Out of it! You need to and you have to, so that you can start taking back control of your life. 

Simple problems develop in to unsolvable mysteries which you should have given some thought to - solved it or let it flow. If certain things are out of your control accept it (or seek help) and work on the things that you can control. The longer you sit on an issue (even the easy ones) it only gets more difficult to bear with time and eventually pulls you down, the stress of a cluttered mind also affects your ability to focus and process information. Once you have resolved an issue, clear it from your mind - avoid keeping distractions. You control what stays in and what goes out.

The 4- Simple Steps Approach

1. Identify & Write Down all your tasks - so that you know exactly what you have to do and not rely completely on memory to remember them. It's just easier to follow and also relaxes your mind by not having to constantly worry about them. You can write it down on a Paper/ Diary/ Computer, No matter where you write you should be able to refer to it easily - that's important.

2. Prioritize - not by the ease of doing things but by its importance to you. You definitely don't want something  that's important to you to just lay around for later.

3. Disconnect to Reconnect - Spend 15 to 20 minutes with yourself doing something that's only for you, (not your spouse/ kids/ family). By spending some time on yourself, you calm you inner-self and avoid getting overwhelmed by circumstances. You disconnect with the outer world to reconnect with your inner world, purging yourself of the mental chatter going through you.

4. Get enough Sleep! - I can't stress on this enough, in today's world with cut-throat competition and never-ending deadlines we end up neglecting ourselves. You need to give your body and mind enough time to rest & reset. This is also the time your mind uses to re-process all the information it has received during the day.

Live your life by enjoying the journey, filling it up with the wonderful experience it has to offer. If something doesn't feel right, move away from it, leave it behind. Because life is too short, especially when you look back at the time that has passed you by.

It feels like it was only yesterday that I was a little boy and how the life has gone by can only be measured in the experiences and memories I have gained in this time.

Don't you think it's about time we give ourselves a break and clear our mind of the clutter we have stored in it?

It's hard to do, but most gratifying - when you learn to unclutter your life a day at a time!

P.S - Please do comment on the methods you adopt to unclutter your life. I would love to hear from you.