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Reduce Your Stress By Removing Clutter From Your life
By: Abbas Abedi, Posted on: 2007-02-17
You can gain time and energy in your life. This can be done by spending a few
minutes each day making your life simpler. "Downsizing" your life a little at a time
will lower stress and bring you a sense of satisfaction.
You may be wondering what do I mean by "Downsizing"? There are times in life
when you need to get rid of things. Things that clutter your life. Things that no
longer have value to you and your family.
We all have a tendency to collect more than we really need. Some of us are
collectors to the extent that we have a totally cluttered life. Others have a neat life,
but still have more than they need stored away in the depths of their closets.
Once a year we need to go through our closets, garages, dresser drawers and
boxes stashed in the attic and find out what we can get rid of.
There is a saying, "Get rid of what you do not want to make room for what you do
want". If you were to follow this advice, you would find your life less cluttered than
it ever has been, or at least less cluttered than it has been in a long time.
Collecting too many things begin to weigh our lives down with so much stuff that
we cannot get out from under it. If you have to make isles in your garage or
storage shed to get to things or worse yet, you have to make isles inside your home
to get to things, you need to make a decision to start sorting through your
belongings and get rid of things you KNOW you will never use again.
Do you save clothes in hope of returning to the size you were when you stored
them? This clothing can add up to boxes and boxes of things that will be out of
style by the time you actually can wear them again.
You local charities can use donations of clothing. They can use good clothes to sell
in their thrift shop and to help clothe the needy. They can even use holey and moth
eaten clothing which they bale and send off as rags.
Maybe you have boxes or cabinets with mismatched dishes. How about old
silverware and utensils you no longer use. Put them all in the donation box.
Have you been saving books and magazines that you plan to read or re-read some
time in the future. If you have not read them in the last three years, do you really
think you will read then in the next three? It is unlikely. I know you are saving
many of them as references. With the Internet, you have all the reference material
you will ever need right at your fingertips. Get rid of books and magazines. Put
them in the donation box.
If you really cannot stand to give things away because it all has value, have a
garage sale. Make it a challenge to have tons of stuff at your sale. When it is over,
take whatever does not sell and donate it to a charity. Promise yourself you will get
rid of the leftovers.
To sum up clutter, it robs valuable time from your life. It takes away some of your
life energy and makes you wonder how you will ever organize it all. Do not organize
it all; get rid of a lot of it.
You can often save money by spending $3 at the store rather than spending three
hours looking for something you know you have, but cannot find. You end up
buying the lost item anyway.
Get rid of what you do not want to make room for what you do want! Your stress
will decrease automatically.
About the Author:
Abbas Abedi CHt If you are interested in natural techniques to reduce stress and
anxiety in your life today, then sign up for my free eCourse titled, "4 Days to Break
Free from a Stressful Lifestyle" at Instant Stress Management
By: Abbas Abedi, Posted on: 2007-02-17
You can gain time and energy in your life. This can be done by spending a few
minutes each day making your life simpler. "Downsizing" your life a little at a time
will lower stress and bring you a sense of satisfaction.
You may be wondering what do I mean by "Downsizing"? There are times in life
when you need to get rid of things. Things that clutter your life. Things that no
longer have value to you and your family.
We all have a tendency to collect more than we really need. Some of us are
collectors to the extent that we have a totally cluttered life. Others have a neat life,
but still have more than they need stored away in the depths of their closets.
Once a year we need to go through our closets, garages, dresser drawers and
boxes stashed in the attic and find out what we can get rid of.
There is a saying, "Get rid of what you do not want to make room for what you do
want". If you were to follow this advice, you would find your life less cluttered than
it ever has been, or at least less cluttered than it has been in a long time.
Collecting too many things begin to weigh our lives down with so much stuff that
we cannot get out from under it. If you have to make isles in your garage or
storage shed to get to things or worse yet, you have to make isles inside your home
to get to things, you need to make a decision to start sorting through your
belongings and get rid of things you KNOW you will never use again.
Do you save clothes in hope of returning to the size you were when you stored
them? This clothing can add up to boxes and boxes of things that will be out of
style by the time you actually can wear them again.
You local charities can use donations of clothing. They can use good clothes to sell
in their thrift shop and to help clothe the needy. They can even use holey and moth
eaten clothing which they bale and send off as rags.
Maybe you have boxes or cabinets with mismatched dishes. How about old
silverware and utensils you no longer use. Put them all in the donation box.
Have you been saving books and magazines that you plan to read or re-read some
time in the future. If you have not read them in the last three years, do you really
think you will read then in the next three? It is unlikely. I know you are saving
many of them as references. With the Internet, you have all the reference material
you will ever need right at your fingertips. Get rid of books and magazines. Put
them in the donation box.
If you really cannot stand to give things away because it all has value, have a
garage sale. Make it a challenge to have tons of stuff at your sale. When it is over,
take whatever does not sell and donate it to a charity. Promise yourself you will get
rid of the leftovers.
To sum up clutter, it robs valuable time from your life. It takes away some of your
life energy and makes you wonder how you will ever organize it all. Do not organize
it all; get rid of a lot of it.
You can often save money by spending $3 at the store rather than spending three
hours looking for something you know you have, but cannot find. You end up
buying the lost item anyway.
Get rid of what you do not want to make room for what you do want! Your stress
will decrease automatically.
About the Author:
Abbas Abedi CHt If you are interested in natural techniques to reduce stress and
anxiety in your life today, then sign up for my free eCourse titled, "4 Days to Break
Free from a Stressful Lifestyle" at Instant Stress Management