Clear Clutter for Clarity and Creativity 

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” – Louise Smith

Ever felt stuck or uninspired, looking for motivation or a new idea to spark you back into action. The issue may not be that something is missing. Many times, there is just too much clutter to see, think or feel clearly – clutter in your emotions, your space, or your mind.

Clutter – emotional, physical, or mental – takes up space in ways we don’t always notice. Slowly and quietly, it blocks the path through which clarity and creativity naturally flow. When we start to clear this clutter, inspiration returns on its own, effortlessly.

Let’s look  at these clutters closely – 

1. Emotional Clutter

Unprocessed feelings :- could be  stress, anger, fear, guilt; these tend to sit quietly in the background. You feel that they are gone, buried, no longer important, not realising that over a period of time, they block you mentally and emotionally, leaving little space for new ideas or clear thinking to enter.

Practice :

Next time you feel the lack of clarity due confusion, overwhelm, the ‘blah’ or ‘meh’ feeling, try this –

• Attend to the feeling instead of brushing it off. Notice it and name what you’re feeling. Use words – “Right now, I am feeling _____ .” Allow yourself to feel it.
• Express it through journaling, movement, or a conversation, so it can move through you.

Remember – When your heart feels lighter, creativity finds space to return. 

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2. Physical Clutter

Messy environments :- overstuffed closets, unmade beds, crowded desks, piles of things – overload your brain with signals and you don’t even realise it. There is visual overload that your brain is constantly accessing and processing. You may think that you’re used to it, yet your attention is being pulled in many directions, and this is a strain on focus and calm, 

Practice : 

Next time you feel distracted, irritated or over stimulated by feeling its-all-too-much, try this –

• Clear one small space you use daily – your desk, nightstand, or bag. Intentionally keep only what you use, or love.
• Assign a place for your things and then with a timer of 10 minutes, mindfully put things back into their assigned places.

Remember –  A tidy space helps your mind feel more present and clear. 

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3. Mental Clutter

Too many ideas, tasks, bits of information, can leave your mind feeling cluttered. Trying to remember everything is taxing and takes away the focus from the task, idea or even the conversation right in front. There is a constant battle as all the information is trying to stay relevant and alive in your mind. This makes you feel scattered in mind and makes it hard to think deeply and be creative.

Practice – 

Next time your brain feels fried and tired by the effort of remembering it all, and forgetting simple details, try this:

• Brain Dump – Write down the information, all ideas, tasks, reminders, worries, and free your brain from carrying it all mentally. This will make space for the brain to focus on what’s important.
• Once in front of you, organise the information into categories – Urgent, Important, Now, Later, Delegate, Ideas. Decide on the one thing to focus on, and do it.

Remember – When your mind has room to breathe, clarity will return on its own. 

You don’t need to search hard for inspiration. You just need to remove what’s in the way. Clearing up even a little emotional, physical, or mental clutter, will clear the path for clarity and creativity. And now with this clearing up, move forward with clarity.