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5 Simple Steps to Do a Spring Cleaning on Your To-Do List
With the official start of spring just a week away, you might be feeling the urge to pull out your rubber gloves, roll up your sleeves, and give your living space a good top to bottom scrubbing. And why not? Clearing out the clutter helps us prepare to enjoy the warm and hopefully productive months to come.
But as bullet journal creator Ryder Carroll pointed out on the TED Ideas blog, if you’re hoping going wild with the bleach will help you mentally reset, you’re going to be disappointed. Sure, de-cluttering your house is a great step, but if you really want a fresh outlook, you have to de-clutter your mind too.
How to do a mental spring cleaning
“Do you ever feel like your mind is one big, infinitely scrolling, incredibly cluttered to-do list? And are you always struggling to keep it updated, remember what’s on it, readjust its priorities, and delete what no longer serves you?” asks Hailey Reissman in the introduction to her post sharing Carroll’s prescription for a mental clear-out.
If you’re nodding yes, then you need to proceed the same way you would if stuff tumbled out of your overstuffed closets every time you opened the door: Take everything out, lay it in front of you, and sort the valuable bits from the discard-worthy junk.
