How to Declutter Your Mind: How to Quit Worrying, Calm Your Mind, and Find Fulfillment in Life (2022 Guide for Beginners)

By Thelma Norris

Do you feel like you're constantly on the go, with no time to stop?

Are you continuously preoccupied with work that takes too much of your time and a social life that is as demanding? 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thelma Norris
• Release date: Sep 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9783986537876

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TABLE OF CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

What Exactly Is Mental Clutter?

Why Do Our Minds Become Cluttered?

A lack of ability to prioritize

Too Many Choices

Cluttered Environment

What Does It Mean to Clear Your Mind?

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 2

How Mental Clutter Works Against You.

Clutter is undeniably annoying, but is it truly dangerous?

The Consequences of a Cluttered Life Distraction is only one aspect of the burden of clutter.

Stress and Clutter

Stress makes you feel tense and on edge.

How Clutter Limits Your Potential

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 3

The Advantages of Mental Decluttering

How to Mind Decluttering Aids Your Continued Growth

Make Room in Your Schedule

Remove Circling Thoughts

Exchange Anxiety for Peace and Calm

Concentrate on the Future

Is Decluttering Beneficial?

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 4

Clearing Your Mind

How Do Our Brains Handle Chronic Stress?

Adaptive Reasoning

Why Are We Predisposed to Think Negatively?

Other Factors Influencing Our Psyche

Self-Esteem Issues

Traumas from the Past

Recent Life Events

A Chaotic Way of Life

How to Rewire Your Brain, Declutter Your Life, and Be Happier

Begin keeping a journal.

Exercising Your Thoughts

Make Sure You're Getting Enough Sleep

Communicate with Family and Friends

Focus on the Essentials

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 5

Clearing Out Your Responsibilities and Life

Excessive responsibilities contribute significantly to the clutter in our lives.

The Difficulty of Multitasking

Dividing Your Attention

Workplace Quality Is Declining

Are you attempting to do too much at once?

How to Set Priorities for What Matters

Determine Your Core Values

Examine the decisions you made when you imagined your future.

Consider the advantages of completing a task first.

Finally, consider whether a task has any inherent rewards.

Remove any unneeded responsibilities.

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 6

Decluttering Your Personal Life and Relationships

The Popularity Myth

Managing Toxic Relationships

How to Recognize Toxic Relationships

Another thing to keep an eye out for is a significant change in how you spend your free time or how frequently you spend time with others.

How to Say Goodbye to Toxic People

Developing Healthy Relationships

Developing More Meaningful Relationships

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 7

Cleaning Up Your Home

Making Your Living Area Usable

Determine the Value of Your Assets

Sort everything into useful piles.

Keep, Donate, or Toss

Organize What Remains

Avoiding Future Clutter

Stop purchasing unnecessary items.

Make decluttering a regular habit.

This is how you should approach the decluttering process.

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 8

Organizing Your Workspace

Cleaning Up Your Desk

Be Wary of Common Distraction Sources

Organize Your Working Environment

Finally, keep your desk surface clean.

Managing Clutter Caused by Bosses and Coworkers

Takeaways from the Chapter

CHAPTER 9

Cleaning Up Your Online Time

Cleaning Up Your Feed

Unfollow Extreme Negativity

Reduce Your Screen Time

Stop succumbing to FOMO.

Cleaning Up Your Posts

How Frequently Do You Post?

Takeaways from the Chapter

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Our modern lives are both cluttered and hectic. There are so many things competing for our attention at the same time. Someone is always expecting us to complete an assignment and follow their instructions, whether we are in school or the workplace. We are constantly bombarded with tasks and responsibilities, to the point where the only rest we get maybe when we sleep at the end of the day. Our personal lives, like our professional lives, can be just as hectic. Maintaining relationships frequently consumes our limited free time, and while we love our friends and family, keeping up with all of their plans and being available for all of their needs can be as exhausting as work. Our calendars fill up quickly, and we're frequently left racing around trying to balance everything on our plates while desperately hoping we don't drop anything.

As a mother of two, I am acutely aware of how hectic life can be. I used to feel extremely overwhelmed at the start of each day, just thinking about everything I had to do by the end of it. I had all of my personal and professional responsibilities, as well as concerns about my children. I'd rush around in the mornings getting them ready and packing their lunches, all while running through a mental checklist of everything I needed to get done before they left. This left me with little time to relax, causing me to be anxious most of the time. I was a compulsive overthinker, and my worries about my hectic, cluttered life would play over and over in my head as I tried to sleep. That didn't even take into account how physically cluttered the house was. It wasn't uncommon to walk into a room and trip over some stray blocks, and both my husband and I had made impulse purchases that ended up collecting dust on a shelf. With so much clutter in my life, I knew I was causing myself a lot of stress, and I needed to figure out how to get things under control.

When our lives and surroundings become cluttered, so do our minds. Our surroundings affect our mental health. Certain colors, for example, can influence us based on their associations.

Because red is often associated with passion and movement, it makes us feel more active. A subtle change in the colors of a room or building can influence how we feel in that space.

The same theory applies to the amount of clutter in our environments. A clean and tidy room makes us feel more relaxed and allows us to concentrate on the task at hand because there is nothing to distract us. A busy environment, on the other hand, makes it difficult to focus because it provides too many different things for our brains to latch onto.

Assume you're at work and there's a TV on in the room. Concentration becomes nearly impossible because, even if you try to tune it out, the noise and visuals from the TV add to the amount of mental clutter you're experiencing. Because of the high level of clutter in the digital world, even your phone can become a significant distraction. A hectic schedule and relationships that require a lot of maintenance can have the same effect on you. Too much clutter for too long causes our brains to race, even when we're trying to focus or sleep. If we stay in this state for too long, we can experience a variety of negative effects such as overthinking, anxiety, tension, and inability to concentrate.

Knowing all of this, you may be wondering, What is the solution to reducing overthinking and anxiety? If environmental and lifestyle clutter contributes to mental clutter, decluttering our lives will assist us in decluttering our minds.

The concept of reducing clutter borrows heavily from minimalism. A cleaner, more organized environment is more than just aesthetically pleasing in minimalism. It is a more streamlined way of interacting with our surroundings that reduces the number of distractions we face in our daily lives. A minimalist environment encourages greater mindfulness by shifting our attention away from our surroundings and toward ourselves. It becomes easier to navigate our surroundings with greater purpose, allowing us to devote less time to distractions and more time to what truly matters. Living in a clutter-free home or workspace can aid in the prevention of procrastination and overthinking.

Minimalism can be applied to other aspects of your life.

True minimalism entails reducing unnecessary clutter in all aspects of your life, not just your home. Reduce the number of unnecessary responsibilities you have at work so you can focus on the most important ones. Limit your exposure to non-essential information from social media and other aspects of the digital world.

Eliminate toxic relationships that cause you anxiety, just as you would prune old, misshapen branches from a tree to allow the tree to grow. You can even begin to rewire your brain, which will improve your mental health and allow you to let go of negative thoughts that take up space and hold you back. Declutter your life by getting rid of the stressful obligations and distractions that are ultimately unnecessary and cause you anxiety. Living a more minimalist lifestyle and decluttering your mind can help you achieve greater mental clarity, focus, productivity, and peace.

How to Declutter Your Mind teaches you how to live a more stress-free and tranquil life even as our modern world becomes busier and busier. You will learn practical strategies for decluttering various aspects of your life, including your physical