How to Manage Stress by Clearing the Clutter

Managing your stress is vitally important to your future health. If you don't manage stress, it will find a way to manage you. Stress can be very invasive in your life. It loves to be in the driver's seat and you hand over the keys without fail on a regular basis because you feel defeated by it.

So who is to blame for your stress? Is it your boss at work, your teenage son or maybe your better half? You can't control what other people do or say, but you can manage the way you respond to them.

Here are some stress triggers that you can quite easily control and change to help reduce your stress levels

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Clutter – The more "stuff" you have, the more cluttered your life becomes and the more time and attention is needed to keep it under control. One way to reduce that demand it puts on your life  is to eliminate some of the stuff that you don't really need.

 

Do it systematically  room by room. You need to take a critical look at the things that demand your time and attention.  Promise to give away or throw away something from each room and then try to do it once a month for a few months until you feel the benefit of de-cluttering your home

Don't add to your clutter. Stop purchasing things you really don't need. Before you buy a new wok or 26-piece baking set, think about how often you would actually use those items. Do you have any other kitchen equipment that can double for the same purposes?

The Perfect Housekeeper – Unless you can afford a full time housekeeper, you need to accept that you don't need to clean all day everyday. Weekly cleaning is good enough. Save the frantic furniture polishing and baseboard wiping for quarterly cleaning or preparing for a party. Remember that rooms in magazines look so great because no one lives there to mess them up.I remember some advice given to me when the children were small was clean the bathroom and kitchen and the rest can wait for another day. After all a bit of dust never hurt anybody.

Too many clothes is a trap that is easy to fall into especially for woman. I wardrobe full of clothes you hardly ever wear. Too many choices can also become stressful. Keep your wardrobe simple.If you need help, you can always ask a fashionable friend or hire a wardrobe consultant to work with you.  Maybe you could arrange your clothes so that you can see clearly which clothes go well together.

These are just a few suggestions of ways to manage stress by dealing with the things in your home. You can apply the same strategy to other areas of your life.