Everywhere

Mentally, I believe I can reduce clutter by focusing on things I care about. There are things we all know we can’t change. It’s tough in this world, and it’s often more tough for people of color, but you can’t control that.

I try to place my focus on things I can control. Focusing on skills that make me more marketable. Study, and learn what helps me become a better leader.

Learning new skills that may not have very much cross compatibility, but I learn skills that may allow me to pivot, if I ever needed to.

Physical Clutter

Often, I try to prime my environment for efficiency. I leave my keys where I always leave them, with my wallet, and my necklace. Whatever belongs in that space never changes, so it reduces the chance of forgetting my wallet, or house/car keys.

Same is to be said for food and drinks, I put them in a place that doesn’t require me to do a lot of work to retrieve.

When attempting to reduce clutter, I apply these same principles to my clothing. I load my shirts in the closet by color, I also place my under clothes, or pants by color, reduces the stress of figuring out what I would like to wear that day.

I have my shoes in plastic boxes where I can see what color they are as well.

Generally, I make my life easier to figure out by removing clutter and placing items where they are easily seen, but also easily retrievable.

Making Life and It’s Choices Easier

In order to develop good habits, it’s often best to prime your environment. If you don’t like cleaning up, why weight until you have a horde of items to clean up, clean a small amount of things in short bursts.

After you finish for the night in one room, reset that room for the next day. Your essentially saving yourself more energy.

Place your TV remote in the same spot everyday, for instance, we place ours right next to the TV, how could you lose it if it’s always there. Eventually you do it without thinking.

If you actually took a step back and realized, all your good habits have a trigger, use that information, and knowledge to replace bad habits.

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