Eliminate The Clutter From Your Life

Your time is limited and you must learn how to remove the clutter from your life. Wanting to do everything, having to do everything does nothing but exhaust your resources and make you live with an inseparable companion, stress. Learning to walk through life in a more balanced way will be essential to focus, achieve your goals and become the person you want to be.

The first step is learning to say “no” when someone asks you to make a commitment that could jeopardize your time and the balance of your expectations. While it may seem difficult, knowing how to say no will help you keep your balance. In fact, it is often the commitments to which we must necessarily say yes that generate large amounts of stress.

The following strategies will help you find balance, define your schedules, mitigate daily stress and regain control over your life.

Eliminate the clutter around you

A balanced life is an orderly life. Begin by tidying up the space around you, eliminating all the clutter, all that is extra and that involves more work. Keeping a clean and tidy room is much easier when it contains only the essentials and everything else is easy to clean and handle.

The action of ordering your environment, throwing away what is not needed and simplifying the furniture making it functional, will serve as a metaphor. The sense of freedom that you will feel by ordering and making your spaces easier will be the same as you will feel by putting your life in order.

Do not make excuses by saying that you need help, that no one else around you is looking after it and that you are tired of always having to do it yourself. Lead by example and prepare the means to make it easier for everyone to maintain order, both inside and out.

Delegate

Maintaining control over everything is difficult, both personally and professionally. Always wanting to control and organize everything generates stress and anxiety, especially when others realize that all the responsibility lies with you.

Trust those around you and delegate some of the responsibilities to them. Specify what you want and what you expect from them, but give them the freedom to do it their way, so they will do it with greater pleasure. Leave perfectionism aside, be flexible and celebrate the work done.

Leave perfectionism aside

The same principles apply to you. Be flexible and try to do things right, leaving perfectionism aside. Try to give your best in every moment, but if something goes well, don’t insist on wanting to do it again to achieve perfection. Wait for the next opportunity to improve it.

If you can take shortcuts, take them. Delaying or complicating your life in taking an action will not necessarily improve the execution of the same. Set your priorities and spend the bulk of your time on them, looking for ways to simplify everything else.

Live in the present, think about the future

You live day by day, and it is good to establish a plan to always be able to take full advantage. In doing so, do not forget that tomorrow will be a new day and that it will be followed by another and another. Planning each day well looking for a personal balance is a habit that will bear fruit in the short, medium and long term.

It is not a question of drawing up a grand plan. It is about planning day by day thinking about future goals and the psychological, emotional and physical consequences that you will achieve by going to 200%. The combination of decisions made today will affect how you feel tomorrow.

Awaken the child within you

Remember what it was like to be a kid, when everything seemed fun and you did things for pleasure? It is not good to always and only act with the sole objective of obtaining an external reinforcement such as a title, a job or an economic remuneration.

Do not forget everything that, instead, amuses you or makes you feel good. While it will not improve your economic or work situation, it will generate a positive mood in you that you can easily pass on to all other aspects of your life.

Having fun, playing or exploring are all things that will help your mind to rest, to lighten the burden of daily commitments. By doing so, you will be able to recharge your energies, have new ideas and enjoy a vigorous mind and soul.

You are not machines that reset by pressing a button at any time. To clean up your internal “gears”, you will necessarily have to make the decision to dedicate time to yourself. Bring out the child in you, the one who acts out of pure fun and appreciates the simplest and most authentic things.