De-clutter your life to celebrate spring

It is still February and there is still the cold fluffy stuff falling from the sky. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of the cold days and am looking forward to warm, sunny spring days. I’m a huge fan of non-jacket weather.
One of my favorite things to do in anticipation of spring is pre-spring cleaning. That may sound silly, but there is nothing better to do on a gloomy winter day than to go through the clutter in your life.
The way I think about the clutter in my life is on two different levels. There’s a physical/material level and a mental level.
Physical and material are the things that lurk in the corner of your closet or in a box in the hall closet. It can also be clothes you don’t wear anymore. Really just anything that is no longer used or needed.
Getting rid of all the clutter is a relief. But there is more clutter in life than the objects in your home.
I am a firm believer in there being “mental clutter.” Those are the things that linger in your mind or become unnecessary speed bumps in life.
I like to start by going onto social media and unfriending/unfollowing the pages and people who constantly post negative things. I don’t know about you but there always seems to be two or three people in my friends list that really have nothing nice to say. Sometimes seeing this negativity brings my mood down and I’m not a fan of that.
Another mental declutter I try to accomplish is I try to figure out where my attention should be placed in order to be more successful.
Sometimes I get too caught up in unnecessary events or mindsets that I try to free myself of.
For example, maybe you have a friend that somehow always has drama and asks for you advice but never follows it.
There isn’t a need to stress about something out of your control that doesn’t pertain to you. I’m guilty of doing this numerous times. There’s always those little things that don’t really involve you but somehow causes you stress.
Get a jump on spring cleaning and take some time to declutter both your environment and your mind. There are benefits even if you just do one or the other. The good thing is this can be done at any time.
You don’t have to wait for spring to declutter your life. I encourage you to take a step back and look at the things in your environment and mind that may be cluttering your way to a better lifestyle.