Steve Andreas – Clearing Out Clutter

In order to make space for what we want to keep, we need to sort through an accumulate of things. Many people have a hard time doing this. Do you want to learn a simple trick to make this easier?

When most people do this, they look through their closets, drawers, and bookshelves to see what they have. Don’t. Want. There are several reasons why this is not the best way to accomplish the task.

Imagine if you went to the grocery store to buy food and you were focused on what you wanted. Don’t. Want. To find out what this way of shopping would be like for you, take a moment to imagine it in your mind.

Isn’t that a little backwards? Imagine shopping the way you usually do it. Do you? Want.

Whether you have a list of things that you want, or whether you look around to see what appeals to you, focusing on what you want is the way to go. Do you? It is simpler and more direct.

There are probably only a few things that you want, and a lot of things that you don’t. It would take you if you were focused on eliminating what you don’t want. Much. You would have to process more of it.

If you are focused on what you don’t want, you have less attention for what you do want, and you might even lose track of it, which is what happens in paranoia.

It’s important if you’re focused on what you do. Don’t. You will be having feelings when you think of those things. When you think of what you want, those feelings are likely to be less pleasant. You can try this in your imagination. Think of a food that you want and then think of something else.

Which feels better? You are likely to keep shopping if you think of what you want. It is likely that you will stop thinking of things that you don’t want soon, so that you can feel better.

I have written about you before. Do you? What do you want? Don’t. Want. There is a bigger category of stuff that you don’t care about one way or another, called Mister In-between. All this is ignored when you focus on what you want.

It makes sense to focus on what you want to buy in a store. Do you? What you don’t want is what you want. It is simpler to do because it is harder to process negations. Not. ”).

The next step is to decide what you want to keep. When you want to sort through stuff, all of the factors mentioned above are true. If you focus on what you don’t want, it will be more difficult, less direct, and it will take longer, so you will probably give up and do something else.

How can we use the way that we naturally acquire stuff to get rid of stuff?

It is simple to empty out a closet, drawer, or bookshelf and put everything else in another place. Imagine that this is stuff in a store, and you can choose what you want from it. Look through it to see what you want to keep and discard the rest.

In order to simplify and streamline your surroundings, there is an additional advantage to this way of sorting through stuff. If you were successful in doing what most people do, you would have all the stuff that is meaningless to you. By selecting what. Do you? All the Mister In- Between stuff is in the pile to be thrown away.

If you like to keep stuff around for a while in case it becomes useful, put it in a box and date it. If you haven’t looked at it in six months or a year, it’s time to dispose of it.

I use a trick to think of people who would be happy with the stuff I discard. Even though. I am. It might not be important to someone else, but the thought of passing it on to someone else makes it even easier to let go of it.

This is just one application of the importance of focusing on positive outcomes. Do you? It is important that you live a life that works for you, rather than what you don’t want.

Do you have other ways to clean stuff out? I welcome you to add them to the discussion.

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