The title of this blog post is conquering clutter for clarity, control and creativity. What is stopping you from conquering your clutter? I have three words for you in no particular order –Clarity, Control and Creativity.
1) Clarity is the space you give yourself in your home, in your mind, in your body, in your life to take care of the things that matter and get rid of the ones that don’t.
For instance what happens when you are spinning your wheels, going in a million directions with lots on your mind? Some people freeze up, others just simply get cranky and blow a fuse, others keep going, and going, and going-until they drop or worse they get sick.
What happens when you get a very important phone call and you need to find some information that has been filed in your stack of unorganized and disheveled papers around your home office? Some people might simply say “I will need to call you back after I find what I am looking for” another person might pretend it’s a bad connection and hang up, and yet another person might have had a really bad day and that phone call is the last thing on their mind and they say some not very nice words to the other person which potentially could get themselves in trouble lose a sale or even worse-upset a friend.
2) Control is being prepared for whatever comes your way, recognizing that for many circumstances you can’t change their outcome but you can control your thoughts, words, deeds and actions in regards to the circumstances around you. We know that at the end of the day we can’t control people, places or things, but we can control ourselves. When we have done our homework;the test does not seem so daunting, we are ready to attempt to answer the questions. Where in your life are you not ready to be tested on? What areas have you done your homework in and actually ARE READY TO BE TESTED?
3) Creativity is conscious action that comes to you based on your thoughts, words, beliefs and desires. Recognize that at every moment you have an opportunity to make something happen that will bring you happiness, or bring you unhappiness. You have a choice that is based on all your past experiences, a choice that is based on how you feel at that moment ,or a choice that is made because of outside influences that bring on internal pressure to make the right choice. What kind of choice would you rather make?
So let’s review for a moment:
So we have clutter in our minds, bodies, and physical environment which causes chaos and confusion-chaos and confusion causes a feeling of not being able to handle things or loss of control- which leads to unclear choices being made from outside influences. Unclear choices made from pressure or outside influences creates lots of stress and poor decision making which leads to an unhappy state.
And here is the SOULUTION: When you have to make a decision under pressure, or when you are out and about,that decision is made with clarity from a confidence that comes from deep within. That decision is made from a place of control: self-control , self-knowledge and awareness of what makes you tick. A decision that creates a warm and fuzzy feeling like you did the best you could with what you knew at the time no matter what people are going to think or say. That in turn creates a happy state.
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