Use The Four D's To DeClutter And Get Productive

I grew up in the house of a “neat freak” and immediately rebelled when I left home.  I would let laundry pile up in college until I ran out of clothes, and if I had money, I would buy new clothes before doing laundry.  Sadly I think this was a rather normal college lifestyle choice.

As time went on I discovered that much of my “college” stress was due to my messy lifestyle.  I discovered this when I spent to much money and had to sell everything to pay the bills.  I rented a room from a friend and didn't have much to make a mess other than laundry.  Somehow I became relaxed and energized all at once.  I built a business, bought more stuff, moved to an apartment and began to clutter my life again.

Want to know an easy way to get other people to stop overloading your schedule?

Every day that you get out of bed you are faced with a growing number of events all begging for your time.  Each day there seems to be just one more thing to take care of.  Your life is cluttered with things that society, your family and friends think are “important” so you added them to your “to do” list.  Have you ever asked yourself why you do this to yourself?  Would you like to find a better way?

As humans, when we accumulate all of these things that we need to do “later” our minds become a mush of these events.  One day we wake up and wonder where the time went.  I call this process filling your “accumu-later”.  Each of us has an accumu-later that has at least a few tasks in it.  The more you have stuffed into your accumu-later the less effective you feel.