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Being Mindful of Your Environment (and a new video for you!)

by | Sep 28, 2019 | living your most optimal life

A bedroom, the wall to the left is pale yellow the wall to the right is a light turquoise. The large window has a rattan blind and dark grey drapes and the small window has no window covering. The sun is shining through the small window onto a pile of boxes sitting on the beige carpet. There is a single bed at the front that has unmade Star Wars sheets on it and a pink wool blanket.
The boxes from my office travelled down the hall to Will’s old bedroom – find out why below…

With the last day of September upon us I am here with our final ‘Food For Thought’ Mini Mission for Week #4! Woot! And I have a new YouTube video for you too about the downside of being a perfectionist (scroll down for link).

Mini Mission #4 is…

…. ‘Being Mindful of Your Environment’ ???

I recently shared with the Shine FB group how my parents are gearing up to downsize and so have been giving me boxes of old stuff; letters, report cards from Grade 4, the yearbooks and photo albums that I stored in their crawlspace a couple of decades ago, all of which have now made the journey to our house and up to my office where I have been piling it up because I’m not sure what to do with the stuff.

Drowning in Stuff!

I was drowning in this clutter but didn’t even realize it, it had just become the new normal, until last week it hit me and I couldn’t stand it a minute longer! So I spent a good chunk of time over the weekend doing a major clean sweep ? of my office.

My husband put up some curtains, I added a few lamps and organized my files and book shelves ? and dumped a ton of boxes into Will’s old bedroom and new spare room (still to be dealt with unfortunately! lol).

And voila! it was like I had a new office! The clear surfaces and streamlined look felt amazing! My son came in to my office and said ‘this room seems so big now’ and I feel happier and calmer whenever I enter this space.

Clearing clutter has great energy behind it ? – and that is why it is the Mini Mission for week 4!

Elizabeth's newly decluttered office. The walls are dark blue and the ceiling and drapes are white. The floor is dark brown. To the left is a small bookshelf with a lamp and old fan on top. Her desk has a silver computer monitor on top and a brass light. behind the desk to the left is a low grey table with books and files in a tray. To the left is a picture of flowers waiting to be hung and next to it a filing cabinet. The surface of the white desk is empty and the office looks neat.
My newly decluttered office – still need to hang some pics and rearrange furniture but it is waaaaay better than it looked last week!

How About You?

Can you find a junk drawer, or bedside table, or kitchen cupboard that could use a little attention?

If you have a cluttered area that is constantly in your field of vision that would be a great place to start, as the clutter can subconsciously be draining your energy and making you irritated without you even realizing it.

If you can make one small space a tiny bit more beautiful it will have a big, positive impact!

In Summary

So to recap our Food For Thought weekly Mini Missions for September we had:

  1. Mindful Eating
  2. Being Mindful of Thinking Errors
  3. Being Mindful of What You are Consuming
  4. Being Mindful of Your Environment

And that is a wrap!

Being calm, mindful and ‘in the moment’ will serve you well in ALL areas of your life whether it be the food you are eating, the people you surround yourself with, your physical environment, or the thoughts in your head.

Hope you enjoyed going through these practices with me! 🙂

In Other News!

There is a new video up on my YouTube channel about the dangers of perfectionism and in it I talk about some of the traits associated with perfectionistic behaviour. Don’t forget to give me a ‘like’ and subscribe when you are there, thx!

Click HERE to watch!

There is more good stuff coming soon for October so stay tuned!

xo

Eliz

On the left side of the photo is a picture of Elizabeth taken against a dark blue wall, she is wearing a white v neck sleeveless shirt, her hair is down, she is wearing red lipstick and is smiling at the camera. On the opposite side of the picture in black against a yellow background it reads 'How to Stop Being a Perfectionist' and there is a red and white YouTube symbol below this phrase.
Do you think you might have perfectionistic tendencies?

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