How to Declutter Your Life To Add More Value and Happiness
Declutter your life? Yes. Believe it or not, you can benefit from decluttering your life. Would you like to enjoy less clutter, less stress, less debt, more organization, more freedom, and more space for what truly matters to you?
You can easily enjoy many if not all, of these benefits and possibly much more. I will show you how.
Why You Should Declutter Your Life
There are many reasons to declutter your life, but the top of my list is the space it will leave for you to pursue what truly matters.
Decluttering your life just for the sake of it will not allow you to enjoy the benefits to their full potential. It would be best to use decluttering your life to resolve known and possible unknown issues.
It would be best if you believed your home and life might be filled with unnecessary material things that do not bring real value or happiness.
Do you have stuff that takes up space and requires you to waste time and money storing and managing it? Are your closets, basement, attic, or garage filled with stuff causing your home to burst at the seams?
Do you have one or more storage units or have junk stored with friends and family? Can you barely move around in your home or workplace?
Once you believe this can be you, you can enjoy the maximum benefit of decluttering your life.
Declutter Your Commitments
The first step to decluttering your life is cutting back on many commitments.
For most of us, our daily lives are filled with commitment after commitment. Before you know it, you are bragging about how busy you are. You wear it like a badge of honor. Why?
Is this the type of life you would design for yourself if you were to create it? Many of us develop set daily routines that involve obligations and tasks that encompass the day that lack structure. This usually leads to nonproductive days; days lead to years, and years become a life.
Cut back on your unnecessary daily commitments to give yourself room for what you enjoy. Be intentional and learn to say no.
Write down all of your daily commitments once in a while. This will help you clearly understand them. Then, evaluate each one.
Force each one to justify its existence. Are they necessary, and more importantly, do they bring happiness or value to your life? Keep or remove as needed.
You can also try batching commitments. Many daily obligations do not need to be done daily. They can be done every other day or even weekly.
Some commitments may be more easily fulfilled when done together. Give it a try.
Declutter Your Relationships
I know this can be uncomfortable, but it is necessary to live a happy life. Decluttering your relationships is not just a once-in-a-while task but should be done regularly.
There are seasons in your life and seasons in your relationships. Not all relationships are right for all seasons.
Believe it or not, childhood friends are not always meant to be friends for life. I don’t recommend designating a time and date to decide which relationships to keep and which to trash. It should happen naturally.
Decluttering your relationships is easier than you think. It is a process embedded in our DNA. We naturally gravitate toward what makes us happy and away from what makes us unhappy.
To easily declutter your relationships and increase happiness, spend more time with people you enjoy, positive people that enhance you, allow you to grow, and make you happy.
The next step is even more intuitive. Get rid of the toxic people who cause stress and drain your energy. You know you want to do it. Permit yourself to give them the boot.
Go Digital and Paperless
Don’t you dare skip this section! LOL. Hear me out. You know this needs to be done; ignoring it will not help. Let’s get this done once and for all.
You have the technical expertise because going digital and paperless is easier than you think. The best part is that you have to do it once, and then you can stop putting it off forever.
Begin by scanning items that can be scanned and taking pictures of things that cannot. Photographs can be as good as the originals and take up no space.
This includes important documents, receipts, invoices, statements, records, etc. We know you need to keep physical copies of some documents, but do your best.
There will be items you cannot let go of and live without, which is ok. Decluttering you like is not meant to be stressful but a personal process.
Be More Intentional
This crucial step will lead to decluttering your life’s success. I like to ask a few questions before I purchase or look to introduce anything into my life.
The most important question is, do you need the item? How does the desired item add value to your life, and why? Many people choose to purchase items for reasons other than need.
The need is not the only reason to purchase an item. Just be sure you know why you desire to buy the item and are okay with that. Being intentional about your purchases is essential to ensure success in decluttering your life.
Do Not Compare
How you decide to declutter your life is totally up to you. There is no right or wrong way to proceed. There is only your way. Social media can be poison when comparing people’s life highlight reels to our boring documentaries.
Please don’t fall for it. You have to realize that social media is not accurate and that comparison is the thief of joy. You don’t have to give up social media; I suggest you spend less time consuming it or understand what it truly is.
Social media is not absolute and was never meant to be. It’s just a made-up fantasy not meant to be compared to reality.
Declutter Your Debt
You can’t successfully declutter your life without decluttering your debt. Decluttering your life is about adding value and happiness to it. What could add more value and happiness to your life than being debt-free and making purchases that don’t cause debt?
Decluttering your life will lead to becoming debt-free, but there are ways to realize it faster. If you don’t already have one, you must save an emergency fund of at least 1000 dollars.
If you can’t do that and following these declutter-your-life suggestions doesn’t put you on the path to achieving it, you don’t have a problem.
Sometimes, there is a severe spending problem or a lack of income problem.
Unfortunately, those problems are beyond the of this post.
The next step is to focus on your debt, from smallest to largest. Topple them like a row of dominoes. Your momentum will increase as they fall, combined with decluttering your life behaviors.
At this point, becoming debt-free will be a matter of time, and it will feel GREAT!
Conclusion
Decluttering your life will only benefit you if clutter is robbing you of space, time, money, and happiness. Decluttering your life should reclaim these and allow you to devote all of them to doing what matters.
This should not be a one-time journey. To reap the total rewards continuously, you must make it a way of life.
Please allow these suggestions to inspire you to become more intentional towards decluttering your life success. With the hard work behind you, all you will have to do is keep moving forward towards decluttering the life you dream of living.
