Clearing Our Clutter
Remove Hazards from Helpful People and Travel Area
Feng Shui activity for today:
Remove hazardous elements from the Helpful People and Travel area:
You don’t want your helpful friends to have to navigate a road like this one!
Take a moment to stop and see where all your help is coming from. Trace the road money travels to get to you.
Helpful people do not want to hang around a bunch of junk. A mess in this area of the house gives helpful people obstacles to negotiate, so get rid of the junk!
Drains may undermine the support you need to prosper. Tie a red ribbon or red tape around the outgoing pipe to stop your chi from flowing away, and place mirrors in the area to keep the chi up.
Dust and dirt, broken items, trash cans, toilets, reminders of bad times don’t belong here.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
Note:
If you are unsure of where the helpful people and travel area is, see these posts:
5 extra minutes
Still working in the General Health area of our homes:
This area is the epitome of balance of the yin and yang energies. If your physical body is in balance, you can “give it your all” and achieve everything you set out to do. This area reaches out and touches all the other eight guas of the home.
Declutter activity for today:
Take a minute to look around the areas of your house. Which area still needs a little extra work? Set your timer for five minutes and get to work decluttering and balancing that area. You know what needs to be done!
After five minutes, stop! That’s it for today!
Note from twofeathers:
I wanted an image to illustrate this post, so I put the words “5 extra minutes” into a yahoo search for images and came up with this! The web page title is: Villa with pool at 5 star Altea holiday resort.
And I thought.. wow. This is the kind of thing we are working towards as we work the Prosperity Project. This is the carrot at the end of the stick. So I decided to post it with the suggestion that as we clean, we remember WHY we are cleaning.
Note:
If you are unsure of where the health area is, see these posts:
Finding Your Center
Declutter activity for today:
Stand in the center of your home for a moment and close your eyes. Feel what this area is telling you. What needs to happen here to bring balance and improvement in your life? Let this area tell you what needs to be done. Does it need de-cluttering? A general tidying up? Do things need to be put away, or brought out from hiding? Once you have a sense of what this area is asking for, set your timer for 5 minutes and do it. That’s it, we’re done de-cluttering for today.
This beautiful mandala is by Paul Heussenstamm, I thought it would help us get centered for today’s de-cluttering exercise.
Family Photo Project
Still working in the Family area of our homes:
The energy in this zone of the house influences how safe and secure you feel in life and how you relate to family members (blood relatives or not). The energy here is your foundation in life and deserves special attention.
- Declutter activity for today:
Today, lets take some time to organize our family photos. If you have lots of loose photos in a lot of different places, gather them all together into a “photo box”. Do you have photo albums waiting to be filled? Take the time to organize your photos to make it easy to begin to put them into the photo albums. Don’t have any photo albums? Why not go and buy some, and fill them up this weekend as a fun “family” project? Maybe you have all your photos in photo albums already. If so, that’s great! Maybe this evening would be a great time to dust them off and spend a few moments enjoying them.
Grab some garage sale stuff
Declutter activity for today:
Find three items that are worth at least $5, that you have outgrown or that you never liked in the first place, and put them in a box for our group’s garage sale this spring.
If you think you may change your mind and remove the items from the box, and put them back on the shelf, email Shirley and we can store the items for you so you won’t re-clutter your home with things that you know you do not need.
This should take less than five minutes. That’s it for today!
This idea is from our very own Melissa!
Book Drop
Still working in the Skills and Knowledge area of our homes:
This area may not seem glamorous, and you may think that you should focus your attention on the Prosperity area of your home, but this area deserves equal attention. When prosperity starts to show up in your life, if you don’t have the wisdom, skills and ability to handle the increased resources, the money will flow right through your hands. Enhancing this Wisdom (Skills and Knowledge) area will allow you to more easily accumulate the things you want out of life.
Declutter activity for today:
Books and magazines. We buy them, we read them, but do we really need to keep all of them? Today is a good day to go through that stack of magazines, and browse your bookcases. Pull out any books and/or magazines that you do not love, do not use, and that you will probably never read again.
Box them all up and add them to our upcoming Prosperity Project garage sale, or take them down to your local thrift store. Now enjoy the feeling of freedom that comes from freeing up space in your life.
Note:
If you are unsure of where the skills and knowledge area is, see these posts:
Another hot spot fire drill
Declutter activity for today:
A Hot Spot Fire Drill
Find the one Hot Spot that is still out of control. When you walk into a room, the Hot Spot is the first thing you see. Before it becomes a clutter inferno, set your timer for 3 minutes. Quickly grab any items that do not belong here and put them away. Throw away any trash. Put away the items have just been left out. That’s all! At the end of three minutes, stop. We are done decluttering for today.
From Sink Reflections
by Marla Cilley
The rubber meets the road
Day Eighteen:
Still working in the Career area of our homes
When it comes to traveling on your life path, are you stopped at a red light? Is your life path filled with potholes? Are you stuck in gridlock and there’s no exit in sight? Bringing balance into the Career area of your home will work as your 24-hour roadside assistance program!
Declutter activity for today:
If you are looking for direction in your life, or are scattered from so many possibilities and choices, go to your closet and check your shoes. They are the “rubber meeting the road” when it comes to your getting anywhere. Arrange all your shoes in the closet so they are facing the same direction. Find one pair of shoes that you no longer need, and put them in the box of items for our garage sale. That’s it for today!
Get on with the fun stuff today!
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
Note:
If you are unsure of where the career area is, see these posts:
Take care of it now
Declutter activity for today:
There’s one item that every time you walk by it, you think “I’ve got to get that taken care of.” It could be a piece of paper on the floor, and every time you walk by it, you think, “I should pick that up and throw it away.” Or perhaps it’s a button that you set aside meaning to sew it back on your jacket. Right now, take just a minute and go take care of whatever that one thing is. You will feel so much better when you’re done!
I bet “mama” was pretty big in the “take care of it now” department!
This decluttering idea
came from our very own Melissa
Another Five Minute Room Rescue
Declutter activity for today:
The Five-Minute Room Rescue
In whichever area is still the most cluttered, set your timer for 5 minutes. Move as fast as you can and remove all items that do not belong in this area – take the dirty dishes to the kitchen sink, put the dirty clothes in the laundry pile, pick up all the books, magazines, and piles of papers and mail and put them in a basket or at least contain them all in one area in the house.
After 5 minutes, stop. You’re done decluttering for today. Let’s move on to the fun stuff!
The point is to do this as quickly as possible so we are not spending more time than necessary decluttering and we can get to the fun stuff in our day.
From Sink Reflections
by Marla Cilley
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