When faced with doubts, invoke and think how would the Guru respond to this situation? How would he think, what would he say, what would he do. (is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind) Why am I studying this? Why am I buying this? Is there a need? Is it useful to me? To others around me?Īpply the THINK filter to your thoughts, words and actions. Check the input vs output.Īsk useful questions. Give things only that much time as they are worth. “Start by doing what’s necessary then do what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
The first step is often the most important one. Sometimes we get overwhelmed and don’t even start. Keep the perfectionist attitude for what is truly important.ĭevelop skills to skim information. KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLEįor unimportant tasks, “satisfice”. Move from FOMO (fear of missing out) to JOMO (joy of missing out) Less is truly more in today’s world!įollow the KISS rule. Give an hour a day for all tasks that need only 2 minutes. And don’t feel guilty about it.Ĭlump similar tasks together. Then categorise these into: do it now, delegate it, defer it, drop it. Things you have been wanting to do but haven’t done. Every thing that makes you happy, makes you sad or angry. Every single thought, task that you need to do or wish to do. In this article, I share a few tips to declutter your space: physically, digitally, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Sometimes this mental clutter prevents us from sleeping well and that leads to other health issues. It is indeed true…When we fall into the habit of procrastination and laziness, tasks accumulate and create clutter and then begins a vicious circle of this clutter itself keeping us from doing what needs to be done. One of the speakers I heard recently said, “clutter is nothing but postponed decisions and actions”. One must practice discernment, and make informed choices, learning to choose carefully that which is useful and ignore all that is not useful.Įxcessive material possessions and information lead to clutter, physically, digitally, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. With so much information coming in constantly, the mind is incapable of processing it all and it makes it difficult to make the right choices, to know what is really true and what isn’t, what is helpful and what is just a time waster.Īlycone (At the Feet of The Master) says, “In all the world there are only two kind of people, those who know and those who do not know and this knowledge is all that matters.” One study says we have more information since the last two decades than was there from all of beginning of civilisation. In today’s world, we are literally bombarded with information from different sources.