Jack Canfield walks through five ways to declutter your life: physically purge items you don't love, meditate to clear your mind, cut energy-draining foods, examine your relationships, and focus on finishing a few major goals instead of juggling many at once.
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Hi, I'm Jack Canfield, and today I want to give you five powerful spring cleaning strategies to help you declutter your life so you create more space in your world for joy, harmony and abundance. You know, almost everyone has too much stuff in their lives. Things we bought but have never used, or things we used to love but haven't used in years. Gifts people have given us that we never needed. Old newspapers, magazines and junk mail. Clothes we no longer wear. Broken, useless stuff that we've never gotten around to throwing out. All of these things mess up your home and your office, disturb your peace of mind and fill your world with useless clutter. And that's just the physical stuff. Not even talking about the way we fill our lives with too much busyness and too many unnecessary distractions that pull us away from the important things we should be focusing on. So today I'd like to share five powerful spring cleaning strategies that you can use to declutter your life at all levels so you have more focus, more clarity, more space, and more freedom to focus on what truly matters most to you. I'm pretty sure at least one of these strategies is going to surprise you, so make sure you keep watching to the very end. Now, my first tip is to physically declutter your home and office. Put everything you own through the love it, sell it or toss it test. If you don't absolutely love it, then sell it or toss it. Giving it to someone who might love it or need it or recycling it are also options. Of course, as long as you get it out of your home or your office. Now, I encourage you to be ruthless with this. I know it can be hard. Trust me, I do know it's hard to let go of old things, especially when you have positive memories attached to them. But remember, the memories of your childhood aren't going to disappear just because you give away a bunch of old books, games and broken toys. Release them with gratitude, and enjoy the space that opens up in your life when they're gone. Because when you get rid of the things you don't want or need, you create more space for the things you do want to need to come into your life. And I guarantee that when you create the space for them, they will begin to show up. It's pretty magical the way that works. Now my next tip for you is to declutter your thoughts. Our homes aren't the only things we fill with too much stuff we don't need. We could say the same thing about our minds. We cram our heads full of so many useless or even harmful thoughts that don't serve us in any way. We read too much gossip about celebrities. We get caught up in the negativity of the news cycle. We watch TV shows that don't uplift, enlighten or educate us in any way. We'll spend too much time listening to our inner critic who tells us we'll never be good enough or we're not worthy enough to achieve our dreams. And so our minds become crowded with useless, self defeating thoughts that hold us back from showing up as our best selves. Now a great way to declutter your mind is with the practice of regular meditation. I am a huge fan and practitioner of daily meditation and I can honestly say it's changed my entire life. Now if you're not sure where to start, you can go to YouTube and Google mindfulness meditation or beginner meditation and and you'll find lots of great options to explore. You can also go to jackcamphill.com and get my Awakening Power Audio program which consists of 12 guided meditations and visualizations. Now you'll discover that the more you meditate, the more you'll find yourself no longer giving any attention or power to your negative thoughts and focusing instead on inspiring, motivating and uplifting thoughts that spur you on to do your best. Now my next powerful decluttering strategy is to declutter your diet. Many of us consume too much food and too much drink that doesn't give us the nourishment and the nutrients we need to thrive. And when you fill yourself up with too much unhealthy food or drinks such as sugar laden desserts, soft drinks, pastries, alcohol, you rob yourself of the vitality you need to accomplish your goals and achieve more in life. So I encourage you to spend some time reviewing your eating and drinking habits and look for ways to eliminate the food and drinks that aren't serving your nutritional needs and replace them with healthier options that will give you more energy and improve your mental and physical well being. Now after that, my next piece of advice is to declutter your friends. Take time to examine who are the people in life who are always dragging you down and preventing you from showing up as your best self. I'm talking about the kind of people who are always negative and never support or encourage you. Maybe they laugh at your dreams and say that you're crazy for having them. Or maybe they're always wanting you to slack off or indulge in your bad habits because they're somehow threatened by your desire to improve yourself. So I encourage you to eliminate people like this from your life, or at the very least, seriously limit your exposure to them because they are holding you back from from unlocking your full potential. And I guarantee that when you get them out of your life, you'll find it so much easier to attract the kind of people who will give you the support and the encouragement you need to stay on track toward your goals and create the life you love. Finally, my last piece of advice is to declutter your goals and your dreams. And now by that I mean take a good hard look at all the big goals you're currently pursuing. Chances are you can't achieve them all at once. For example, you may not find it possible to write a novel and take your family to Europe and save money for your child's university education and start a new business all at the same time. So think about which goals or dreams make the most logical sense to achieve first, because once they're accomplished, they'll make it so much easier for you to achieve the next one and the next one. And then focus on completing those few goals before you put any more effort into the rest of the big goals on your list. Now this doesn't mean you should give up on the rest of your goals. It just means figuring out how to achieve them strategically in the order that makes the most sense for your life. Because when you focus your energy and attention toward accomplishing one big goal at a time, you'll find it so much easier to attract what you need to achieve that goal as well as faster than you ever thought possible. All right, those are my life decluttering tips for you. I want to encourage you to use them to spring clean your life and make sure 2019 is a year in which you accomplish amazing things. And now I'd like to hear your thoughts after watching this video. What clutter are you holding onto in your life and what steps are you prepared to take in order to eliminate it from your world? And if you feel so inspired, please leave a comment below with your answer. I'd love to read what you have to say. Thanks for watching. And remember, nothing in your life will change for the better until you do. Now, if you found this video helpful, make sure you like it, share it with a friend who may need it, and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one, and for some additional resources on how to declutter your life, please visit my website at jackcampfield. Com. Thanks again for watching.
