Bloganuary writing prompt

Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

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Despite giving everyone an idea for a horror movie title (you’re welcome), this post won’t be anything like that unfortunately. It’s too early still and my creative brain is waiting for the coffee to kick in. However, I read a few answers already from other posts and I think I have a good response to this prompt.

You can ask my fiancé Yessica what I would need to declutter, and she would probably tell you right away that it’s my books. While I do have a lot of books, I really enjoy that full bookshelf feeling with many stories to explore. So, no Yessica, I’m not getting rid of them!

The real answer for me is my negative thoughts. I’d like to find the closet that they’re in and throw them all out into a dumpster that ships out of my head as soon as possible. Most of these thoughts are unnecessary and just mean at times, and no one likes that. I know I don’t.

Some moments, I realize what I was saying or thinking about something and would then ask myself afterwards, “what are you doing?” Nine out of ten times, it’s something that has no effect on me and doesn’t need that negativity at all. I probably just need a Snickers for whenever that happens.

One of the ways I’ve been fixing that is writing in my journal. Get all of my complaints out about whatever and then I usually feel better about it afterwards. There are nights where I couldn’t fall asleep because something was bothering me at that time, I would then go right to my journal, write down what’s bothering me, and that would get it out of me. Journaling does work wonders!

I also talk to a therapist about once or twice a month. Even when I’m feeling fine, it’s always good talking to someone, especially someone who will keep me leveled with myself and isn’t biased. They have been around to see the negative clutter that’s in my mind and come up with solutions on how I can clean it up. Starting a journal was their idea for me in our first conversation and has been the best suggestion so far!

I’m still working on myself to be a better person, even if there’s days when I’m not at my best mentally. A slow climb up the hill at least, but I’m still going up it.