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Decluttering Your Mind and Life
Tips for cleaning mind, body, and soul this spring.
By Rich Perry
Spring is here. That means longer days, warmer weather, and cookouts. This is also the time when most people clean the winter clutter. We get rid of old items that are just taking up space, toss out stuff we no longer have use for, and fill garbage bags with junk we don’t even know why we bought in the first place. This is the time we clean our physical surroundings: home, office, car, garage, and man cave.
Just as we spend this time decluttering and organizing our physical environments, we would all do well to use this opportunity to clean and reorganize our mental, emotional, and spiritual space as well.
Have you allowed work or other obligations to take away from quality time with your family?
If so, then it’s time to reevaluate your schedule. Determine which activities can be restructured for efficiency or simply eliminated altogether. In the beginning, it might help to officially schedule time in your calendar to spend time with loved ones. Writing things down helps make them feel real and definite, plus it has the added benefit of showing your family that they are a priority to you. At the time of this writing, humans around the globe have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19. Many government officials…
