Does your kitchen table collect old mail? What’s the back seat of your car look like? Is your desk a mess, or is it organized? Do you have a sewing room or den? What’s it look like? How about the kid’s room?

Clutter … do you have it? All that unnecessary stuff just lying around the house or your car. Have you ever noticed that having all this clutter around zaps you of energy? Have you ever sat down in the evening… looked around at all the clutter and mess, and say to yourself, “I’m just too tired, I just can’t do it all!” Then take a moment to think about how you feel after you do a complete and thorough “spring cleaning”. Do you feel tired? Probably not – I know I feel much more energized standing a freshly cleaned room. A clean room feels so nice to be in; it has a positive energy. And it’s really interesting that a clean room is so much easier to keep clean than a messy room is to clean! And when you spring clean, do you just sweep things under the rug? NO WAY ! If you are getting rid of it, you really want it out! Getting rid of the clutter in your personal space is a ‘freeing’ experience; there’s no doubt about it.

Now that’s all talk about your physical life. What about your emotional life? Do you think you have any clutter lying around your heart and mind? I bet you do! And I can tell you for certain, we can hang onto our emotional clutter so much more than we do the physical stuff. So, if the clutter in your living room makes you feel tired and resigned, how much more do you think the clutter in your heart makes you feel! The clutter in your heart can weight you down more than anything else can. Well, guess what? Spring cleaning of your heart and mind is just as important and needed as cleaning out the basement. And more importantly… after you clean out the emotional clutter, you’ll feel just as energized as cleaning out that spare room.