If you want joy in your life, then remove the clutter. The fewer distractions, less mess, or the mentality of keeping up with the Jones the more you can enjoy what you do have. The more you have the more life becomes complicated, heavy, and wearisome. Simplicity allows you to relax, be carefree, and lively.
Simplicity is not following a cookie cutter blueprint, but discovering your personalized path with God. Anything that doesn't fit into that plan is just stuff that takes up your valuable time and attention away from God. God is the source of joy, so the closer you are to Him the more joy you will have.
Clutter may may make you feel normal, but why do you want to feel normal? Why not be different and live a spectacular life with God. Living a life going through the motions just is not living. It destroys you little by little everyday. You live day by day not looking for God's blessings or feeling passion. Push away normalcy and look for what is lovely, pure, true, and excellent that is in your life.
Clean up your life to be able to appreciate all the good stuff you have. You will discover that your life flows better. You can enjoy the time you have. You have the opportunity to become creative, grow, look for opportunities, and live our your purpose more successfully. Everything else just eats up your energy.
There are different types of distraction or clutter in life: spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, financial, legal, and relational. Spiritual clutter is the deficiency of inner peace due to a lack of intimacy with God. Emotional clutter is lack of forgiveness or meditating on negative thoughts or feelings that cause fatigue, boredom, fear, or anxiety. Mental clutter is disorganized priorities that cause you to postpone what is important causing a lack of focus. You need to manager your character to get priorities inline.
Physical clutter is being disorganized in life. It is amazing how cleaning up will make you feel better. Financial clutter is a personal messy economy: debt, weak to nonexistent financial plan, no budget, insubstantial insurance, or failure to work with your spouse. Legal clutter is not addressing legal vulnerabilities, ignoring planning (home, death, or retirement), keeping up with paperwork, or not defending what God has given you.
Relational clutter is the most emotionally draining. It has lingering affects that can last years. They can be relationships with no closure, toxic, unequally yoked, business, or betrayal. These will take your eyes off of God. You have to work them out for yourself, even if you never get it completely worked out with the other person.
One area of clutter is not good, but understandable because no one is perfect. However, you add on multiple areas of clutter and it will really run you down and you will eventually burn out and crash. They consume your mind and keep you from joy or productivity. Declutter and focus on God. You will enjoy relationships more, set achievable goals, solve problems easier, feel innovated, have clarity, and behave more wisely.
Take the time to to spend with God, pray, meditate, and assess your life. What do you really need? Do your desires align with God's desires for you? Work with God for your long-term goals. Simplicity will bring harmony back into your life and that will produce joy. Work a little everyday to declutter until you get to where you need to be. Write out a declutter plan and mark through as you get rid of what is on the list. It will feel satisfying.
Psalm 131, Proverbs 14:30, 15:13-16, Ecclesiastes 4:1-6, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Timothy 6:6-8, & Hebrew 13:5-7
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