It's easy to end up surrounded by clutter in your life. It might take the form of a messy garage where you can't find a screwdriver because there's so much unorganized junk, a closet that is so crowded with clothes you rarely or never wear that you can't locate that outfit you want to put on, or a desk piled with so many papers that you shuffle frantically through the stacks trying to find the one important paper you need. Or it might be that every room of your house and office is, frankly, a mess. Aside from the amount of time you waste on searching for things you can't find in all that clutter, if you are attempting to attract new good into your life, that confusion and mess could be blocking your results.
To make room for all the wonderful things you wish to attract to you and manifest in your life today, it is necessary to first prepare the groundwork, the same way you would lay a foundation before building a new home. Spend some time getting rid of clutter and you will feel less stressed by the unorganized piles of stuff, at the same time as you clear important space for your wishes to manifest.
If you are not the neat-as-a-pin type, it doesn't mean you have to clear every surface and force yourself to adopt a style that is not really in harmony with your personality. For example, some people enjoy putting projects into baskets on closet shelves or on folders in file cabinets, and yet for others it becomes a case of "out of sight, out of mind" and it is not productive to put away unfinished work prematurely. Even with those various differences, it doesn't mean you should feel resigned to having big stacks of messy papers and clutter. If you frequently waste time looking for important things, and get frustrated by all the disorganization, then spend an hour or two each week, or more often if you can spare the time, on getting rid of the worst of the mess. And make a commitment to do this on a regular basis until the chaos is under control.
Grab a few storage boxes, file folders and trash bags, and a marking pen to label the contents. Be ruthless about getting rid of things that you've kept on hand just in case you ever have time to read it or use it. If you haven't made it a priority thus far, you probably never will. Be sure to put usable items aside for a yard sale or charity donation rather than simply trashing them.
Both Feng Shui and the Law of Attraction teach us the principle that if you clear away the clutter and confusion, you also clear space for the new to come into your life. Decide what you would like to attract. New friends, new profitable ventures, new relationships?
First, get ready for the new by boxing up the old or at least neatening things more. If you give yourself a time limit of seeing how much you can get done in an hour, or two hours, then it does not become a horrible task and soon you will be enjoying your new freedom from clutter.
By Evelyn Roberts Brooks
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