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Spring is officially here! And while many of us are knee-deep in the process of Spring Cleaning, I decided to write a post on something that you may have overlooked this season. The need to declutter your overall perspective. Something we should all do each and every Springtime at home.
After all, who couldn’t stand to improve our lives, homes, and businesses with the start of each new quarter? And what better time to give your life a proverbial refresh than Spring. With that in mind, here are 5 ways that you can spring clean your life!
1. Your Home
When it comes to Spring cleaning, its only right to start with your environment at home. There is just something about having a clean, de-cluttered, and organized space that helps improve your life, clear your mind, and to redirect your focus and your mind.
For me, I know that a new season starts with a clean, cleared space. It helps me feel productive and stay more focuses on my business at hand and can do the same for you!
Studies also prove that decluttered spaces increase your happiness and contribute to reducing your stress levels. Which benefit your health and overall well-being.
I love to start my Spring cleaning in my bedroom and then move on to my office area. This ensures that two of the most profound areas in my life, where I work and where I regenerate each day. is what they should be. I also make a point of scheduling administrative days on the last working day of the month. Days devoted to making sure my goals are being met for my home, my business, and my family life too!
Now if you are just starting a season of decluttering, start off with de-cluttering things you don’t need or use anymore. You can also get rid of things that simply don’t bring you any happiness or remind you of a bad experience. Whatever works best for you.
My general rules of thumbs are to donate an item that hasn’t been used for one year, won’t be used during the holidays, or can easily be replaced in the future.
It’s also helpful to make a list of all the areas of your home that you want to spring clean and have a designated day for each task. This helps you make the most of your decluttering time at home.
Re-arrange your home and organize it in a way that will bring in more space to your home.
2. Downsize your Digital Life
As a digital entrepreneur and blogger, I know the idea of downsizing your digital life can be daunting. But think small. Make a list of your digital distractions and see if you can do without any specific apps, social media accounts, or browser extensions. Consider decluttering unnecessary pictures, documents, pdf files, printables, and software that may be bogging down your systems.
If you work from home, be sure to do a legit scan of your mobile devices to make sure that each of your apps still serves a purpose in your business and home life. Deleting any apps that you’ve not used within the last 3 months. Then set a date on your calendar one season from the date of your digital decluttering to reevaluate your progress.
3. Let Go of Busyness
It’s easy to get addicted to the business of everyday life. From overbooking our schedules to taking on too make volunteer responsibilities, busyness can easily creep into your life. To remedy this, look at your planner or calendar and ask yourself if all those To Do’s are truly necessary and cost-effective in your current season of life? Are there places in your schedule that can be decluttered?
Instead, create a daily schedule of small, obtainable tasks. Goals that can not only be marked off your list but help progress your life, home, and business from one hour to the next.
And to give yourself a workable measure, remove just one task from your daily schedule each day and replace it with 30-minutes of self-care time. Then before you add more tasks to your schedule, ask yourself, “is this task worth my self-care time?” More than likely its not!
Because in the end, you sometimes have to say no to others to be able to say yes to yourself. Something that cannot be accomplished with an archaic, overbooked schedule.
We need to learn that we can’t get everything done in just a day, it is best to take it one day at a time. If you find that you’ve overbooked your day with too many things, then try to prioritize them and see which ones can get done the next day.
4. Rid Your Life of Negativity
One of the best ways to Spring clean your life is to rid your exitance of things that may be physically or emotionally holding you back. Including negativity.
A few ways you can easily accomplish this goal is to first and foremost, think more positively. Making a priority out of thinking positively can change not only your perspective, but the atmosphere in your home, and the course of your life too!
Some of the best ways to rid your life of negativity are to get rid of toxic people, online and in real life, and instead choose to surround yourself with positive people. Folks that challenge you in healthy ways. Keeping in mind, that just because you don’t see completely eye-to-eye with someone else doesn’t mean they are a negative person. And that surrounding yourself with only like-minded people doesn’t truly help you grow as a person. Being placated is never a good look on anyone!
Also, consider how you consume information. Consumerism, the news media, and even friends and family can inundate us with information that can leave us feeling drained and in a mood of uncertainty and anxiety.
I personally remedy this by focusing less on social media and online publications and instead ascertain my news information from credible sources in print form. Including my local newspaper, medical journals, seasoned publications such as the New York Times, and my quarterly law school review.
5. Get Your Legal Affairs in Order
No one likes to discuss the harder aspects of life. But it’s one of the most important areas of life as we age and so it bears repeating- In order to properly Spring clean your life one must get your legal affairs in order too!
As a former legal professional, this is a measure near and dear to my own heart!
And what I mean by getting your legal affairs is to first make sure the big tasks are covered by proper estate planning. Including the following questions:
- Is your will up-to-date?
- Do you have a notarized medical directive?
- Does your family know you wish to be an organ donor?
- Do your loved ones know you wish to have funds posthumously given on your behalf?
- Do you have a trustee appointed for your estate?
- Do you have longterm plans for your retirement years?
- Will your children be properly provided for, both financially and in terms of guardianship, in the unlikely occurrence of your death?
- Are you are your spouse or partner legally mentioned on one another’s wills, records, deeds, business ledgers, titles, utilities, and accounts?
- Are your pets and their care mentioned in your estate planning?
All measures that can turn the passing of a loved one into an emotionally draining fiasco. Measures that can be quickly and painlessly avoided by the visit to a legal professional in your area.
And when it comes to finding the right legal professionals, you don’t want to leave your most important issues to change. Make sure to check out the Lawyers of Distinction website. A directory of legal professionals that can quickly help you find the right attorney to meet your personal legal needs in your area.
Lawyers of Distinction also offers consumers tax aid advice and a directory of members for quick referencing this season.
All-in-all, Springtime is the perfect season to make sure your hardest hitting tasks are checked off your list. Especially when it comes to the legal security of yourself and your family.
So, everyone, those are the 5 ways to spring clean your life. I hope you found this post helpful and you found some inspiration to start spring cleaning your life! Now I want to ask, will you be using any of these tips to Spring clean your own life this season? If you are, please share your thoughts below!
