Feng Shui – Getting Rid of Unhappy Clutter in Your Life & Home

It is sadly often thought that those who life with clutter in their lives and at their homes actually believe that they are accomplishing something and ultimately being productive and useful to themselves, their families and ultimately their communities.

Sadly nothing can be further from the truth. The famous author William Faulkner summarized it best with the phrase ?Full of Sound and Fury signifying nothing?.
Clean the clutter in your abode, clean your life?.

On top of that it can said that life is enough of a struggle without adding to it by keeping items in your house that have associated with them unhappy or even unpleasant memories. Its not only a case of ?Have I used this item in the past ?. Period of time ?or ?Am I likely to need or use these items in the next year or so?, but also ?Does it give me pleasure?? or ?Does it remind me of bad memories?? or ?Does it bring reminiscences of bad events or poor times?? So be it, then toss the items out or give them away.

What steps can be done and task organized and completed to simply arrange your possessions and living quarters as well as to reduce the amounts and levels of clutter overall?

First of all go through your wardrobes and closets to reduce clothes clutter to manageable levels for your wardrobe. Secondly as a general rule overall, work to preserve your memories but not the clutter. In a simple form move to get on with your life and the lives of your family members and friends. It is a matter of reinforcing positive memories and removing poor or bad memories to a minimal amount or even absolute removal. A wise man once summarized ?If the stimulus bothers you, then get rid of the stimulus?

Some people can just not seem to pass on former treasured items. Some of the time it even can be said that their problems lie in their psyche. One poor person ? a Ted Stevens character, had in essence ruined their lives, careers, friendships and relationships. Their lives had become one of major clutter. Indeed their whole lifetimes and lives seem to be focused on keeping and storing junk ? moving this unwanted clutter from one paid storage room to another. Their whole savings, and indeed any cash that they could beg borrow or steal from relatives that they imposed on went to their paid storage fees. It was as if their poor possessions were their only friends. What could be next? Fantasizing that they were indeed Wayne Newton performing at a Las Vegas hotel lounge?

What can be done? What steps and procedures can be taken and employed? Sometimes it is the ?Salami method? of cutting hard and monumental tasks into smaller bite sized events. Just do a couple minutes a day, or an hour a week rather than trying to do your task or tasks in one major sitting. Others will actually use a timer to ensure that they finish a time allotment for the set. Lastly others will make it a simple habit to set up routine, planned and ongoing ?mini clutter clearing sessions?, on a regular and ongoing basis week in, week out or on a monthly scheduled basis.

In summary it can be said, that your home is your castle. A cluttered home environment leads to a cluttered and non productive life. Friends and family may say that to take such an approach of reducing clutter is akin to ?brain washing?. Yet it might be said that with a cluttered home, that your brain does not a washing. Feng Shui!