You Need These Three Things to Effectively and Massively Clean and Clear Your Life
If you are just starting out on your Extreme Cleaning adventure, I recommend the following Three Keys to Start Extreme Cleaning as a way to start on the right foot:
- Immediate Surroundings – Clean up your immediate areas first. Get the dishes done, pick up your room, clean out your inbox, go get your headlight fixed. There is no way you are going to want to or be able to get deeper without cleaning the surface areas first.
- Make a List That You Can Refer To – Start a document on your computer or a page in your journal or a notebook. Just brainstorm and write down all the areas you can think of off the top of your head that you’d like to go through or that you know need some work. I like doing this on a computer because you can keep updating it as new things come up and then take things off as you complete them. You can also keep this as a long-term document for maintenance.
- Imagine Your New Life – What is your life going to look like when you only own what you truly use and love? How will you build your new life, your new self after this intense project? You always here about having a Clear Vision before starting any endeavor, but you may never realize how important it really is unless you give it some serious effort. Don’t get too hung up on it, though, you need to start taking action soon.
I quickly noticed that without #1, I had no desire to go deeper. I could spend the rest of my life always getting to those dishes and never getting to the important stuff. Clean up your surroundings first.
Without #2, you’ll never know where to go next. You need it detailed out in front of you. You need to see how much work you have ahead of you and a place to capture new ideas and areas when they come to you. Once you clean one area up, ideas for further cleansing and refining come out.
And #3 is probably the most important. You will have no motivation if you don’t imagine a better life. Without improving your life in a massive way, what’s the point?
Haven’t Started Your Extreme Cleaning Yet?
Get it on. Now. I’ve also dubbed this Now Cleaning over at Raw Food Right Now because this is something you do now. You can never do anything later. I don’t care how many times you’ve heard some self-help guru say this, it’s true. Just get it done.
Being a regular reader of JSOhlander.com, I will constantly call my readers to action. If I don’t get you to do anything to improve your life, then this is just another pointless self-promoting site that adds nothing to your life. I could wax philosophical on thousands of self-help theories and ideas like many other authors, but unless I give you concrete, real-world steps to take that actually help you immediately, I have failed you. So please, take some inspiration and action from what I’m saying.
I will continue to use my life and stories as further inspiration and to offer real-world examples of someone applying action steps to continually improve their lives.
How Is Your Extreme Cleaning Going JS?
Even though I’ve found little time to really get into it (a common excuse, I am aware), the massive changes I’ve felt and had from the little I have done are incredible. My Clear Vision for this project is getting clearer and my excitement and expectations for this keep ramping up.
I do find a little resistance for the deeper cleaning I know I have ahead of me, but my Clear Vision is what really keeps me going forward strong.
I am noticing that with each layer of cleaning and clearing I am doing, my diet is automatically becoming more ideal for me. I am craving some of the heavier and more processed things less, and my desire for more simple foods (and their effect on me) increase. This connection between internal (bodily) environment and external environment is not just some New Age bullshit. Try it and see.
To The Best Life Ever,
~ JS
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