Decluttering to Free Up Time

Welcome to the Me, Myself and You podcast. My name is Sara, and I'm your host, and I'm really glad to have you here today. Here on this podcast, we talk about all things self care, self development, and mental health. So yeah, I'm excited to be here with you. And today we're going to be talking about decluttering. So decluttering I know minimalism and decluttering have been hot topics in the recent years. And I think there's good reason for that. I think there's a lot of stuff. Now, I think consumerism is just, you know, something that is more and more prominent as the years go on. And I think we also have a lot of mental stimulation from all the technology and all the screens that we look at. So trying to declutter our spaces is one way to cope with that, and to try to get out of that cycle of consumerism and that cycle of just overwhelm. Now, I've tried decluttering, many, many, many times, it's always a process trying to get rid of things. I bought a course awhile ago from Allie Casazza, host of The Purpose Show for decluttering. And I'm a really big fan of hers, her podcast, her ecourses, I think it's a great place to start with decluttering. So, anyways, side note, I've tried to kind of implement that plan. And honestly, life has just gotten in the way over and over and over again, because it's life. This time around, I think it's different. I have really been focused on decluttering. In this first quarter of the year, I had a goal this quarter, to declutter our entire apartment, which is big. And I think the big difference here is that I really feel like I was able to engage my husband with this project. This time around, I think I finally found the words to explain why I wanted it so badly. And for me, explaining it was that for me, the clutter was visual stimulation, it was noise that was very hard to ignore. So we set out on a six week plan, and that definitely got a little thrown off with the snowstorms here in Texas, I wasn't able to get stuff actually physically out for a while because we were stuck at home. So that was you know, we had to press pause for a minute, while we lived in our pile of things that needed to be taken stuck in the ice. But we've been working through that pretty consistently. And this week, this weekend, as I'm recording this, we're planning on doing a little jumpstart to get back on track and decluttering and getting rid of stuff. And I think it's important. And let me tell you why. I think that it's so easy to feel incredibly overwhelmed by your space. It's so easy to be overwhelmed by the number of objects surrounding you the number of things to clean up the number of things to move to actually clean. So I think it's important to consider what you're putting in your space and if your space is actually serving you. And don't get me wrong, this podcast is not about to turn into a solely decluttering podcast I mean, you guys know I've already talked about you know, my focuses are self care and self development and mental health but part of self care is recognizing the things that are detrimental to your mental health. And I think that feeling overwhelmed and overstimulated by the stuff in your house or your apartment, in your in your living space, whatever can be damaging for your mental health because it is so overwhelming. It is so frustrating. It is time consuming when you could be spending that time on things that are more beneficial to your well being and to your just happiness. So I think everybody should consider it. I think that decluttering and getting rid of the things that you don't need that are you know, something that are things that are just heavy and weighing you down, can be so good for your mental health. So I highly recommend that you check out The Purpose Show podcast, it does definitely have some religious undertones, just FYI. But I think she has some good guidelines on minimalism. I did read the book, The art, changing... the Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, blending some titles there. And I think to an extent, that book is helpful, but I think it's a little extreme and unrealistic. There's a lot that you can do with decluttering, without getting rid of literally everything. I don't think it's, I think there's some definitely toxic mental minimalism practices out there on the internet, where it's like, oh, you should only have five shirts, and you should only have two plates, or you, whatever, that kind of stuff. And I don't want you to feel like you have to stick to that, I think it's important to recognize that you can still have things. If you love to get dressed, if you love fashion, it's okay to have a big wardrobe. If you are a big fan of cooking, and you have lots of kitchen gadgets, and you use them all, keep them. It's just about freeing up space for the things that actually make you happy and actually serve you as you are now and not some unrealistic version of yourself. And that's a lot of what Allie teaches. And I didn't mean for this to be an ad for for her show, but I think that's her mindset is one of my favorite things about her courses, her podcast, and I think that mindset is how you should look at decluttering. So, anyways, I hope you will try it out. Try getting rid of a few things decluttering your space and making it serve you better, to feel less overwhelmed, to feel better in your home and making it a safe space for yourself. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope you learned something and maybe you've been inspired to spend a few minutes decluttering today I don't know. Anyways, I will talk at you again soon.

The Self Care Life with Sara Miller

Decluttering to Free Up Time

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