Detox Your Physical Spaces

Mess creates stress. Do an inventory of the places you spend most of your time and stop going to the places that bring you down. At home, go minimalist and give away all the material things that fill your place with clutter. You’ll feel good knowing you’re helping those in need. And cleaning up your spaces will clean out the negativity and distractions from the spaces where you spend most of your time.

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Minimalism is not only a design vibe. If you go to the Tate Modern in London, one of my favorite art galleries. If you go to some of the art galleries in New York City. If you go to some design spaces, and Zurich comes to mind. There's an area where they have a lot of new design spaces where a lot of the high tech companies are. and lot of the creative companies are, and they're very minimalist. So most people, when they think of minimalism, it's like an interior designer will set up a minimalist space. There might be concrete floors, not a lot of messes, not a lot on the walls, lots of light, lots of glass. Minimalism. So for years and years, I've been encouraging my high-level clients, minimalism is not just a design vibe. Minimalism is a way to set up your entire life. Because here's one of the secrets world-class do few things strikingly well. Most people right now are suffering, and I use the word suffering on purpose, are suffering from massive levels of complexity, whether it's on social media, whether it's diversion through their devices, or they have so many friends and they have so many books to read and they have so many social engagements, and they haven't stepped back from the complexity of their lives to say, why am I doing all this? They just think it's normal. And actually, some of them have numbed themselves, and it's so part of their normal lives, they really don't know they're doing it. And what I'm encouraging you to do is remember that history's heroes were not complexitarians, they were minimalists. They had a few possessions, they had a few friends, they didn't have five homes, they didn't have seven cars, these people kept it staggeringly simple. And I think that's really, really important because if you simplify versus go complex, what happens is you can then take your energy and your focus and your personal resources and focus them on the few things that will be most important. And that's what the great ones do.