When you declutter and get more organised, it’s so that your life can get bigger and better.
Everything you’ve done and owned up until now, has got you to this point. That treadmill you bought and drape washing on? It’s as valuable as anything else. Each experience is a little lesson; a springboard to wisdom. It’s easy to see the value in a win, but a ‘loss’ can be a win too. Because mistakes are only mistakes if you don’t learn the lesson in them.
Let’s use the treadmill clothes airer as an example. You want to lose your ‘spare tire’, so you can fit your old jeans. Running worked well for you twenty years ago. But that’s going backwards. We have a natural compulsion to move forward in our lives, to add to our experience bank. We’ll always be more geared towards the instant gratification of newness, than rehashing old experiences.
When we step on the treadmill it feels stale. It feels like hard work. Deep down your motivation for using the treadmill is to be someone you used to be. But imagine if you hadn’t even got the stupid thing. You’d still honestly believe that it’s lack thereof was holding you back. But you did get it. And now you’re wiser. You know it’s not the magic bullet you once thought. Appreciate that. Then take steps to rehome that judgy, torture device. Quick smart.
Even if you don’t know what to replace it with yet, create a void and life will fill it.
Cut out the things you used to do. Trust you stopped doing them for good reason. You’ve already been there, done that and got the t-shirt. Try a new sport – dancing, hula hoop, tennis, find a new bush walk and challenge yourself with a time limit…
Declutter the old hobbies that you’ve already chewed all the flavour out of, to make room for new experiences and stories. Let’s follow natures guide and keep growing and evolving.