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that you wouldn’t use even if you got it fixed (the coal-fired barbeque grill from Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Thelma) , outdated items in the medicine cabinet (Come on, they don’t even make Konjola anymore), that old bottle of salad dressing in the fridge from three years ago, that dusty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!