Benefits of Clearing Clutter:
You Can Stop Clutter in Its Tracks

Let’s look at some of the reasons to stop clutter from taking over your life, shall we?

Here's the biggest reason:

Your clutter is getting 

in the way of the life you want.

Most people have no idea of the far-reaching, negative effects clutter has in every area of their lives.

Your outer environment is a reflection of what's going on inside you, so when things are cluttered, messy, stressful, and overwhelming in your environment, you have a corresponding level of overwhelm and stress inside as well – which keeps you from living and being your best.

Clutter of all kinds – physical, relationships, time, mental, emotional, and spiritual clutter - affects not only your day-to-day life, but also directly and dramatically affects the success of your business and your work, your level of abundance in all areas, your health, your relationships, and your ability to be the kind of person you want to be in the world.

When you feel overwhelmed, burned out, have writers’ block, don’t feel creative, or are frustrated with your body or your finances or your relationships, some form of clutter is at the root of what’s going on. And when you stop clutter, you create space for your life to start flowing again.

In essence, your clutter is actually preventing you from being as successful, prosperous, happy, and fulfilled as you’d like.

The Specific Impacts of Clutter

Clutter in all forms robs you of energy. Clutter energy is real, and can clearly be felt once you start clearing away the clutter (it's a natural high that burns cleanly).

Clutter can keep you stuck in ‘glory days,’ when all of your hopes and dreams live back in the good old days.

Clutter can affect your weight; the connection between weight gain and clutter is only now starting to be understood.

Clutter can affect your finances. Clutter and debt can be directly related (and we'll even talk about how clutter chases money away.)

Clutter can affect your peace of mind. Clutter causes stress (and stress causes clutter). When you stop clutter to reduce stress, you are choosing the fastest, most effective method possible.

Clutter and depression often go hand in hand (something your shrink never told you, I bet).

Clutter affects your ability to be fully present with your children, your spouse, your friends, your family, your pets, and yourself.

Clutter can make you procrastinate. Clutter and procrastination, in fact, happen to be best friends who like nothing better than to sit and hang out with each other...until they feel like doing something, maybe.

Clutter can cost you money; in fact, there is an incredibly high cost of clutter. Much higher than the cost of gas. :) That alone is worth looking into how to stop clutter...

Clutter can affect your relationship with friends and family. Maybe you don’t have friends over because you’re embarrassed about what they might think. Or maybe you DO have friends over, but only after you have frantically cleaned, straightened, and tossed stuff in closets and under beds for a week before their scheduled arrival. Now does that sound fun? Not to me!

Clutter can cost you time (check out why it's well worth your time to sort clutter). Clutter can cost you energy. Clutter can cost you self-esteem. Clutter can cost you creativity. Clutter can cost you opportunities. All good reasons to stop clutter.

Clearing out what no longer fits 

has a wonderful ripple effect in your life

And now here’s the good news.

To achieve the kinds of results that will make you really happy in life doesn’t require working harder and harder, or doing more and more.

In fact, it’s just the opposite.

Letting go of what no longer serves you and setting limits on what you allow into your life is about having and doing less, while accomplishing and enjoying much more.

Clearing out what no longer fits has a wonderful ripple effect in your life.

In fact, clearing out your environment is one of the easiest, fastest ways of completely transforming your life. Denise Linn, author of Feng Shui for the Soul, says “clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.”

Here’s why.

The initial effects of clearing out the excess are fairly obvious, like giving you more time, a more peaceful, organized, and efficient home and office, and more enjoyment in your space.

However, clearing out what is no longer serving you is also like throwing a pebble into a pond…the ripple effects move outward farther and farther without any extra effort on your part.

You will have more energy. Most people think that clearing out their space to stop clutter will take a lot of energy, but the exact opposite happens. What I’ve seen is that as you let go of each thing that is no longer serving your life, your energy level goes up immediately and dramatically.

Imagine being connected to everything you own by tiny strings of energy. The more little strings of energy that are flowing out from you to your stuff, especially things that you no longer love or use regularly, the less energy is available for you. This includes things you might have in a storage unit, stored in your parents’ basement, or hidden away in your garage; just because it’s out of sight doesn’t mean it isn’t affecting your energy every single day.

You are literally ‘energetically’ dragging everything you own around with you all day long. So if you are often overwhelmed or tired or drained, you likely have a lot of stuff that is no longer serving you in your life and that’s where your energy is going.

You will also watch your creativity blow you away. When you let go of everything that is no longer adding value to your life and all that energy becomes available to you again, your mind has room to breathe and create…without you ‘working hard’ to be creative. In fact, you won’t be able to stop yourself from being creative!

And your abundance? It will go through the roof.

Every time you are willing to let go, stop clutter, to clear out what no longer fits, and to raise the standard of your environment, the rest of your life steps up to the plate as well and you create space for amazing opportunity, creativity, and serendipity.

In addition, as you handle the physical stuff and stop clutter in its tracks, the bigger things that you may be wrestling with - such as growing your business or making more money or creating a more intimate relationship with your spouse - often start getting handled as well, often without much effort or intention on your part.

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