Hey ,

Take a look around the room you're in right now...

Are you living in a disorganized environment?

If you are, it's taking a huge toll on your mental health.

And in order to overcome this disorganization habit (and it is a habit), you must discover the reasons why you're caught in this cycle in the first place.

Once you know the cause, you have a chance at fixing it.

To help, below I broke down the causes of disorganization, in hopes that it can help you create a better and more mentally healthy environment for you when you're stuck at home!

The Causes Of Disorganization:

1 - Too much stuff! (by far #1 biggest problem)

Having too much stuff is by far the biggest problem when it comes to disorganization.

We live in a world where material items are cheap to buy, but many of us still have a scarcity mindset that we need to save and keep everything we have in case we need it in the future.

The core to holding onto material items that you don't need is fear.

The fear that you might need it...

The fear that others might call you wasteful…

The fear of losing something sentimental….

We hold onto everything and eventually end up with a house filled to the brim with items that we've emotionally attached to, but in reality don't provide any value to our lives...and in most cases it diminishes the quality of our life.

I used to be (and still am in a lot of cases) very sentimental to the material things in my life.

I felt like if I threw away or donated something I was throwing away a memory, or someone's love, or disrespecting the world and other people in my life.

There was a lot of pain attached to getting rid of things…

But once I identified the root?

I realized that the material thing would and could never replace the memory I had in my mind, and that I could be grateful for the item in my life, appreciate it, and let it go.

I did my first massive purge of my house, car, office, and everything a decade ago and it was one of the best things for my mental health because external clutter creates inner clutter.

And the exterior world is oftentimes a reflection of our inner world, and vice versa.

So if you can take control of your external environment you can take care of your inner environment too.

2 - No systems to clean/manage

The second cause of disorganization is that once you clean your environment, you have no system to continuously clean or manage the environment.

What do I mean by this?

Well it could be as simple as a shoe rack to hold your shoes in an organized way, or a weekly ‘cleaning party’, or telling yourself when the laundry bin in 70% full I do a load of laundry, then fold it, and put it away immediately.

Little systems and routines like this that make the process easier helps you stay consistent and promotes long term change, not just short term bursts of energy!

3 - Low standards

The third cause of disorganization is low standards.

This means that you allow things to pile up…

Whether it's dishes in the sink, the laundry, a piece of paper on the ground, etc.

With low standards you walk by a piece of trash and ignore it, you leave it there, and you're pretty much blind to your environment.

With high standards you keep your eyes open, are present in your environment, and if something is out of place, if something isn't straight, or if you see a little dust, you take 2 seconds and wipe it up…

You don't ignore the problem, you take the 2 seconds to fix it.

Changing my standards was a vital part of changing the way I handled my environment.

4 - Too tired to do anything

This is a big one for a lot of people with PTSD, because many times it can be hard just to get up and face the day.

When this happens it's important to chunk down big tasks and tackle them one by one.

You don't have to do a top to bottom cleaning of your house all at once (although that will drastically change your mood instantly), you can make a list of tiny activities and knock them down 1 by 1 at any pace that is comfortable for you.

Maybe one day you tell yourself that you're going to go through 1 drawer in your dresser and throw away or donate anything that doesn't actively add value to your life.

And then you do 1 drawer a day.

That's just an example, but you can think of other ways to make big tasks into smaller ones.

And always remember that you don't wait to be motivated to take action…

You take action to get motivated.

So I hope this message helps you today…

Throughout my life and journey cleaning my environment was ALWAYS a major boost to my motivation.

So if you don’t feel like doing anything try cleaning and optimizing your environment.

It will do wonders 😉 

– BRAD

“No one can heal you, but YOU.”

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