Declutter Your Life To Free Your Mind

There’s only one way out of this mess: ruthlessly decluttering. We have to eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. Get rid of stuff. Get rid of baggage. Let go of beliefs...let go of worries. Let go of people. We have to stop buying and stop saying yes. We must free ourselves from the weight of excess. Shed what’s unnecessary. Clear away what’s holding us... See more

We also accumulate problems and grudges and anxieties and commitments and opinions—piles and piles of them. Our mental load grows and grows. Our to-do list grows and grows. It all builds up slowly, until we feel overwhelmed, stuck, and weighed down.

What we do as people is we accumulate stuff. We accumulate, accumulate, accumulate...until our homes, our cars, our minds, and our schedules are cluttered.