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Struggling to keep yourself organised and focused?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are your goals continuing to slip through the cracks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may find yourself repeating the same years 5, 10, 20 times struggling to make progress towards your ideal life if your life is cluttered with things that don’t serve you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beginning of a new year is probably the most underrated time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to set yourself up for success, it may be time to declutter your life so you can clear out the old and make space for the new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I personally don’t do new year resolutions nor think about my new year until March each year, I do think about the preparation required<\/strong> to set myself up for success. The aim is to create momentum to better sustain my efforts toward my goals and prevent myself from falling back into old habits and patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December\/January has become a time in my life where I discard what hasn’t worked (declutter and consolidate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’m sharing my process of transforming my physical and digital workspace (in 2 parts), so you can see a real life example to help you create the lasting change<\/em> you seek in your own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I do that, there’s an important concept I need to share with you first that took me years to learn and internalise…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s critical to understand and wrap your head around it if this concept is new to you, especially if you’re striving towards a better life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are ultimately the center of our universe, which means our environment (where we live and work) is a reflection<\/span> of our psychological, emotional state and who we are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve ever struggled with fatigue, feel like your brain is fried at the end of the day, unclear about your goals or unable to clearly see what your ideal life looks like, it’s because your brain is over-processing. It’s busy processing everything you’re dealing with in your life and everything you’re holding onto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you realise it or not, everything we possess in and around your life requires a decision from you<\/span>. There’s literally thousands of micro-decisions our brain has to process everyday (consciously and subconsciously).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we only have a limited amount of energy per day<\/strong> for all the things we’re trying to accomplish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means, if we use (read: waste) our mental energy to process the clutter and disorganisation around us, we have less mental bandwidth, attention and focus for the things that really matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you know why it’s important to declutter, to stay organised, and understand how your environment affects your performance…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s move onto the process I went through to create the results I wanted for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do that, I need to give you some context in terms of where I am, to better understand the changes I’ve made and why they’re important to me, so you can take the ideas I’ve shared and implement them into your own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Not Working<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Throughout last year, I found myself becoming more and more annoyed with the space I’m living in. Part of it is because I don’t have total control of the place I live in because it’s not my house, and part of it is because my space no longer support the ideal vision for the life I want to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, I realised that my physical environment doesn’t reflect who I’ve become<\/strong>, how I feel about myself, nor my transformed spiritual and mental states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, I started adopting the minimalist philosophy and lifestyle. I also started practicing the art of detachment from material things and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since moving into this place in March 2018, my belongings and the way I organised them has mostly remained untouched. I’ve also been conscious of adding “things” into my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as my life continues to evolve, more and more mess inevitably creeps in. That means…<\/p>\n\n\n\n