There is so much talk about decluttering your home and your belongings, but what about decluttering your actual lifestyle?

This is where things can really shift and maybe eliminate some of the ways your home becomes cluttered to begin with.

Choose your lifestyle with purpose!

Focus on the things that really matter to you! The other things will work themselves out either because they have to or because something breaks and becomes the urgent focus.

Purposefully choosing fitness, for example, can be hard. There are so many things that are quite possibly higher on the priority list than a 3 hour training run, BUT, if the lifestyle you want is that of a marathon runner, you need to find a way to prioritize that training run instead of ensuring the floor is vacuumed for the second time this week!

If you want to focus your energy on spending time with friends and family, then it might be hard to keep up with the monotony of all the chores. You may need to be in survival mode a bit and just do the bare minimum. If your focus and priority is truly to be with friends, then it’s ok. Life will sort the chores out. You will have a different energy when completing them because you are choosing your priority and making it happen.

Decluttering your lifestyle means that you focus most of your time on the things that mean the most to you! It will look different for each person.

Reflect on your life now, on your morning or evening routines, on your hobbies, on your kids and the things they do. Think of everything that takes your time and energy. Write it down if you need to. Then try to declutter that! Declutter the things that take your time by choosing one item to eliminate completely or one item to put more of your energy into. If you can’t eliminate something, then choose something that is low enough on the priority list that you can come back to it in a few months and know that the world will still carry on! If you still feel like you can’t eliminate something, just pick the thing you really want to spend your time doing.

Decluttering your lifestyle means that you can start to really use your time effectively for the things that you value most. It gives you the power to make a choice in each moment of the day. Ask yourself if what you are doing in this moment aligns with your purposeful lifestyle – if it doesn’t, declutter it!

You get to choose how you spend each hour. Occasionally, the ruts we fall into or the bad habits we maintain are simply because in those moments where we could choose what matters to us, we instead say, “Who cares about the end game?” We tell ourselves, mostly subconsciously, that it’s ok that we spend time on our phones or that we watch more than the two episodes we said we would watch. “Who cares? Let’s just watch one more!” If watching a show or a fourth show in a row is something you truly value, sure, choose purposefully to spend your time doing just that. BUT, if it’s not something you truly value, then choose something else purposefully.

If at the end of the activity you don’t feel proud of how you spent your time, it may be worth decluttering that out of your current lifestyle.

I’m so glad that you chose purposefully to read my post! *wink!

Thanks for coming home!