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Unclutter Your Life — Make Room For Your Good

OK, 2021 is here. Virus or no virus, you have some things that you definitely must get done this year. You have charted out a specific path that you will walk in 2021. Your path leads to whatever reward you envision for yourself at the end of the path. Doesn’t it make sense to you then, to refrain from weighing yourself down with unnecessary “stuff” while you are walking on that path? Carrying that extra burden only slows you down and makes your journey so much more difficult. Choose to make 2021 the “Year of the Unclutter”. Make the choice to unclutter yourself, both on the outside (material trash) as well as on the inside (mental, emotional and spiritual trash) if for no other reason than it will help y-o-u.

Outside Uncluttering

Start with all the things that you own that you no longer use or need. The first thing that may pop into your head might be — “I may have a use for that one day.” When you start thinking that, put your mind in “manual override mode”. Say to that thought, “Excuse me but I am in charge here and I say that trash needs to go”. You will experience, when you rid yourself of junk that is cluttering up your life, a rush of clarity, lightness and freedom. You no longer have these “weights” tethered to you. If it is something you haven’t used in a long while, start actually using it, give it away, sell it, recycle it, or toss it. Unless you are Fred or Lamont Sanford, you just don’t need all that junk in your life.

Start with old clothes that you no longer wear. Maybe they are long out of style, or they don’t fit anymore or are in a state of major disrepair. The “junk loving” part of your thinking will immediately come up with reasons to hold on (“that style might come back someday”, “I’m gonna lose that twenty pounds for sure”, “maybe the tailor can fix it — I have to get over there someday”). Just take it to a clothes recycling location and be done with it.

Next go on to small appliances (that old toaster that you are never going to use), old electronics (the broken Commodore 64 you can’t bear to part with), anything broken that you wouldn’t use even if you got it fixed (the coal-fired barbeque grill from Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Thelma) , outdated items in the medicine cabinet (Come on, they don’t even make Konjola anymore), that old bottle of salad dressing in the fridge from three years ago, that dusty bundle of mail that has long since lost any value to you, all other paper related stuff such as old documents, momentos, souveneirs, photos, newspapers, magazines, etc. Being an unabashed book lover, I confess that I simply just cannot bring myself to add “books” to this list. It would be like throwing away a friend in the trash. Finally, take a good look at that “I just might have a use for that down the road” stuff that “down the road” you’ll be saying to yourself “Why the hell did I hang onto this crap!”

Inside Uncluttering

Getting yourself to part with the material junk is good. You will benefit. Congratulate yorself. When you are ready, then walk further yet into the realm of enhanced freedom, clarity, lightness and energy. Begin the process, little bits by little bits, to unclutter yourself of all the detrimental junk on the inside — energy-draining negative emotions, bad memories, unhealthy habits, lingering resentments, deep hurts, big disappointments, stupid mistakes, futile jealousies, toxic regrets and one hundred and one fears of this, that and everything in between. Yeah, I know, believe me, I know, that is most definitely the hard part of uncluttering. The rewards you that you subsequently receive however, are absolutlely worth it, many many times over. Human beings have this perverse tendency to hold on to these negative, dis-empowering “inner things” with inexplicable tenacity. All that they are however are a huge sack of rocks that you lug around with you every single mf day of your precious life. Drop the rocks. Walk away. Free yourself.

It has been theorized that there are endless dimensions of reality (other worlds) where every possibility that one can possibly imagine is actually occurring right now. In your mind, the only place where you are truly in charge, put yourself in a dimension where good things are happening for you right now. If your mind is in “that place”, it will drop that sacks of rocks in order to grab onto the good stuff. Make the choice to unclutter yourself to make room in your life for the good to come rushing in.

Success to you in 2021!

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Winter Is A Time For Action

If you conduct a precise google search for “winter is a time for reflection” (in quotes), you will get a result of over a million citations. Likewise, if you conduct a precise google search for “winter is a time for action” (in quotes) you will get a result of 2 citations (from a garden center). Obviously then, this post will be “swimming against the tide” but you can at least get a different perspective on Winter after you finish reading it.

Note To The Reader: If you live in a year-round warm weather climate, just make believe while reading this post that you live in my state of New Jersey.

Winter — Cold. Indoors. Hibernation. Outdoor Venues Empty. Snow. Ice. Did I Mention Cold? Winter is thought of by many, as confirmed by the google search results noted above, as the perfect time to pull back, slow down, reflect on the past year and plan your steps for the coming Spring, Summer and Autumn. Winter however, can be a time, maybe the best time, for you to take action to make your life better. That is the driving force behind this blog — making your life better.

In 1776, George Washington did the contrarian thing to keep the American Revolution going by attacking British forces (Hessians) at Trenton. In the midst of a miserable Winter storm, the morning after Christmas, his gamble paid off with a miraculous victory that raised the morale of the American forces and held the army of the new nation together just when it seemed that everything was about to come apart at the seams.

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces engaged in the largest military naval, air and land operation ever seen when they attacked the well-entrenched German forces in France. The successful invasion marked the begining of the end of hitler and the nazis. It most certainly would never have happened but for the veritable beehive of action that took place in the Winter of 1943 getting everything in place for the invasion. That is what “Old Man Winter” can give you — that “get ready time” so that you can “hit the ground running” in Spring to achieve whatever it is that you desire to achieve in your life.

Winter Actions

Not Spring Cleaning but Using This Time To Unclutter — Get rid of the junk that you no longer really need. That junk in the closet. That junk in the garage. That junk in the basement. That junk in the attic. That junk in the cabinets. That junk in the bureau drawers. That junk in the “junk drawer”. And especially that junk in your mind and in your heart that is counter productive and is weighing you down big time.

Not Just Planning but Using This Time for Active, Definite Preparations — There are countless cooking shows on tv nowadays. If you have ever watched one of them, you’ll notice that when the chef is in the process of preparing the featured dish, everything needed is always right on the counter, in little bowls, within arms reach. Everything has been pre-measured in advance. All the cooking implements are right there. The oven is pre-heated and ready to go. Everything has been put into place ahead of time so when the show starts, bam, the chef proceeds smoothly and effectively.

Not Just Reflection and Review but Using This Time for a Radical Renewal and Readjustment in Mind and Spirit — Why not use this Winter to “Go Rad”. Strip down your life to its very core. Hold on to and secure that which works well for you. Flush down the toilet everything that is causing your life to be less than it really should be.

The Winters that you live, comprise a full twenty-five percent of your life. Make full use of them. Make them as a time for action to make your life fuller, richer, more filled with joy, with peace, with power.