Clutter

How often do you feel like your mind is like this picture?? My home/room has never looked like that ...and hopefully yours never has either :)...but sometimes I feel like my mind must look like that!! Then I look around me and realize how much less I can be living on, how many "things" I have just cluttering up my home/room. I know how much tidier and refreshed I feel when my home/room is clean!! It relaxes my mind and puts me at ease like nothing else. When I feel stressed, I organize and clean. It's a way to fuel my "stress-energy" (for lack of a better word ) into something positive.

Once in college I heard an apostle talk about how having cleanliness and organization in our lives keeps the spirit stronger in our lives as opposed to living in a mess. I tried everything I could that week to be more organized, to keep my room spotless, to make my bed every morning...but that only lasted a little while before it was back to habit.

So, cluttered living = a cluttered mind.

What do you think about that??

I hate living in mess, but sometimes, and lets be honest here, I don't feel like doing the dishes, I'd rather leave a heap of blankets and pillows than make my bed, and on occasion I fling my coat and purse on the floor or on my bed when I could hang it up easily in the closet.

I'm telling you people, I AM NOT PERFECT when it comes to being clean. That is hard for me to admit because I am generally very clean...but would really love to make everyone believe I am a Margaret. But I am only striving to be...

So...

I want to make a more conscious effort to be more organized, more clean, more habitual about the way I live my life.

Because I want my mind to be free!!

Free to think, free to create, free to be productive!!

Does your mind ever feel like that picture?? Cloudy and crowded with a to-do list longer than the Great Wall of China? Do you ever feel like your drowning under all your 'tasks' and don't know where to start? And when you lie down at night to sleep you ask yourself,

"Self? What have I done to contribute to the world?"

and you can't think of anything worthwhile?

I have felt this way for sure. It feels SO GOOD to have a clean house!! There is something about walking into a clean room, an organized office, a sparkling bathroom that relaxes and clears the mind!!

(ha this sounds so dramatic now that I'm reading my post over but I'm going to keep it for the sake of laughing at myself)

And so I squeeze my eyes closed tight and pretend it will all go away while I sleep. And then I drag myself out of bed in the morning and trip over something I left on the floor. Has this ever happened to you??

Lets start by de-cluttering our homes. Organizing our smallest of spaces, making a clean sweep of our homes and living on what we really need. It feels so great to get rid of a big box, ship it off to Deseret Industries, knowing that others can use those things more than myself! Let's not be pack-rats and save everything we've ever owned for those "just-in-case" moments.

Let's live on less, because it's simple:

LESS IS MORE.

clean homes and lives + less clutter = CLEAR MINDS