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Tips To De-Clutter Your Life

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It’s all around you, but you probably don’t even notice.  Dover Personal Trainer It is a stealth energy-drainer, and it may be sabotaging your fitness goals.
It’s called clutter and each of us has it in our lives.  This can be physical clutter or mental clutter.

The insidious nature of clutter is this:  it establishes itself so gradually and entrenches Dover Personal Trainer itself so deeply, that we don’t even consciously know it is there.  But it is there, sapping our creativity, our energy, and our productivity, and ultimately our health.

Physical clutter is clutter in your physical environment.  This can be in your car, Dover Personal Trainer your office, your kitchen, your bathroom, your closet, your garage etc.  It can be unorganized, unkempt, or it can be organized and arranged:  but it is stuff–and too much of it.

You have to move it, step over it, dust it or feel guilty for not dusting it.  You have Dover Personal Trainer to look at it.  It is there. It takes up space that could be used for other things or space that could simply be emptied and left serene and open.

A clear, focused mind needs a clear, focused environment.  When you Dover Personal Trainer are living surrounded by clutter (whether you even notice the clutter consciously or not), it pulls on you and chokes your forward movement Dover Personal Trainer and your creativity.  It always demands to be dealt with, and that is draining on you. So you have less energy for fitness and for health.

And you have less energy to live and to love.

Mental clutter is clutter in your patterns of thinking Dover Personal Trainer and reacting to yourself and others and everyday circumstances.  Again, it operates under the radar most of the time, which makes it especially menacing.

Mental clutter can be self-defeating ways of thinking about Dover Personal Trainer yourself, entrenched patterns of behavior with certain people, habitual ways of reacting to certain situations or just a general approach to life that blindly runs on auto-pilot.

The trouble with living blindly is that you don’t really live:  Dover Personal Trainer you can’t see options or alternatives.  With creativity choked off, you stagnate.  And your energy slowly drains away.

So how do you clear out clutter that you can’t see?  Whether Dover Personal Trainer it is physical clutter on your bookcase or the mental clutter of responding the same way to that person who always manages to raise your blood Dover Personal Trainer pressure, you can get to work on it immediately.

Try these solutions:

Physical clutter:
Assess the different environments that you live and Dover Personal Trainer work in.  Take Dover Personal Trainer one small space at a time and physically touch each object (otherwise you won’t see many of them, because you are so used to it being there).

Ask yourself—What is this?  Why do I have it? What is its function? Does it enrich my life?  Does it bless me?  Would someone Dover Personal Trainer else be blessed by it?  Is it trash?  After I’ve gone, will someone else have to come in and get rid of it? Try to eliminate Dover Personal Trainer as much as you can.

Have a friend come in when you are finished and go Dover Personal Trainer through it again with her.  You’ll have a fresh perspective, and she’ll have an objective one.

Think really hard before acquiring more stuff.  And try to remove Dover Personal Trainer something from your environment each time you bring something additional in.  Out with the old and in with the new.

Mental clutter:
Slow down.  In order to identify your mental clutter Dover Personal Trainer , you must slow down and really pay attention.

Ask yourself this key question several times a day:  Dover Personal Trainer “Do I have other options?”  Whether it is when that ‘someone’ is beginning to push your buttons or whether you are rushing to get to work again, just stop for a moment and try to come up with one or two other scenarios.

Set a reminder several times a day to remind yourself Dover Personal Trainer to stop and take note of what you are doing when the reminder sounds.  Are you eating?  Checking
Twitter for the 12th time? Having the same dead-end Dover Personal Trainer conversation with someone?

Take a look at your routines:  bedtime, morning, lunch, Dover Personal Trainer late afternoon, etc.   What are your habits?  Are they productive?  Destructive?  Time wasters?  How can you make them better?

What are you procrastinating?  Leaving a dreaded task Dover Personal Trainer undone is a sure road to low energy and low productivity.  Make a list of those tasks which you have been putting off and just do them.  You’ll be amazed at your energy level afterwards!

Being fit and healthy requires being intentional Dover Personal Trainer about your environment, your schedule and your relationships.
  Take it one day at a time and start moving toward deliberate living.

Chris Gray Dover Personal Trainer
President
Punch Gym Dover

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