Decluttering by Gina Meyers

 By Gina Meyers

Do you feel stuck a lot? Like your life is going nowhere fast? Or too busy? Or too busy doing things you don’t like but feeling too guilty to make a change? Do you feel like your stuff is getting in the way of your success? The bills are piling up? Does your life feel disorganized, your thinking clouded? Do you feel guilty when you buy something for yourself? Are you living your life to serve others and forgetting about your dreams?  Your life feels disorganized to some degree? Not a lot of joy, but obligation?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions then what I’ve journeyed for the past five months will help.

Without getting into all of the nitty gritty on what self-care has looked like for me, perhaps it would be easier to segment it down into a couple of things that have helped.

There is an old adage and it goes something like this, “you cannot change what you do not acknowledge.”

For some people, you instantly are willing to admit your failings and all of a sudden there are people in your life that are pouncing on your admittance of being human. 

“Tisk, tisk.”

So, don’t take them to task, rather know that you are moving in the right direction. I was beyond blessed to take a leap of faith and dive deeper into decluttering 101, also known as From Clutter to Clarity 2.0.

Quick question.

Have you ever tried to drive your car with your windshield dirty?

99.9% of us are gonna say yes.

It’s hard to see isn’t it?

You can’t see clearly where you are going because your view is blocked.

So, like many Americans, I have too much baggage. Metaphorically and physically. I’m trying to drive in many directions, but too many directions, too many road maps, too many jobs that I didn’t take on that I’m doing too.

I just need to drive the car and make sure there is a charge or gas in it and that the fuel is rich and journey is fruitful. 

So in more simple terms. 

Decluttering you ask? What’s that?

Well, the easiest way to put it is this, “decluttering is the act of unblocking the flow of energy in your space so that you can magnetize in what you desire.”

 But what I have learned by taking a Decluttering Class for the past six weeks is valuable in many respects. I took a mini course in the spring and another mini class in the fall and the teacher recommended I take a deeper dive off the diving board of my decluttering journey.

It works. That’s all I’m gonna say.

You’ve heard of mindful eating. Well mindful clearing and mindful cleaning brings for a better, more fully abundant life.

I heard Marie Kondo, the guru of the decluttering movement say something essentially important the day before my last decluttering class of the year. 

I was reminded of the phrase, “does it spark joy?”

Yesterday, on the way to a funeral, I kid you not, I was on Zoom with my Decluttering Friends and our journal prompt came up.

As I scurried for an extra envelope in the car or something to write on, I felt compelled to at least do one of the journal prompts before the wake.

What has shifted for me both externally and internally.

Before I felt more scattered, like I had to put others needs above my own. Now I own and claim my peace. I recognize that it is my life and my journey. It isn’t my business to try to convince others what works for me, I now know what I need and my feelings are my feelings. I see a lot of baggage, a lot of impatience and upheaval death is so final. 

I left it at that in the  car yesterday, but after hearing the story of the 95 year old man who passed, I came to a new realization. Smile, laugh, be positive, it will all work out. 

Love, it is the greatest gift, and when we share our true gifts and passions with the world, the world sings.

Can you hear the singing?

Can you see the smiles?

A very long time ago, I wrote a book that I never really promoted because it simply wasn’t accepted at the time and may never be a bestseller or even a book that could change someones life, but what I said at the end of that collection of journal writings had an impact on me and it was something like this: 

There are more than two ways to cross a street or cook a steak, as long as you survive you must have been doing something right.

…..

And a new thought.

Being human is a gift.

Now, go clean something.