The queen of storage, Marie Kondo, mentioned in the book "The Magic of Tidying Up Life" that the chaotic environment is actually a reflection of the chaotic heart.
From the home environment can be glimpsed our inner world and living conditions, when we are in a clean and tidy environment, there will also be a positive hint, and the messy environment is the opposite.
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Is it really that important whether the living environment is neat or not?
Cluttered environment
What is the impact on us?
Every time you come home from work and see a dirty environment, people immediately lose the desire to act, and the precious time at night does not know what to do?
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Originally planned to learn to improve themselves, when they returned home, they were completely uninterested, lying directly on the sofa watching TV and chasing dramas, brushing their mobile phones, playing games, and immersing themselves in a short period of pleasure?
The chaotic environment is easy to make people have a series of excuses, so that we can find reasons to escape the status quo and not face more real problems.
Slowly this way of life and inner desire are not balanced, and due to the long-term lack of action, what you want to do cannot be realized. Emptiness and confusion fill the heart, anxiety and regret follow, and your life is gradually out of control.
The chaotic environment actually hides all kinds of problems, like burying a lead that can burst at any time. And usually, what we see is just the state of our own living space.
What we need is to jump out of the concept of spatial cognition and deeply realize that what we have is not just a room, a space, but an impact that can be infinitely magnified and extended to our lives.
"Clean up the room",
More than just cleaning the room
To grasp the key to changing fate, we must be clear about the underlying logic of "cleaning the room".
Many people are limited to the concept of "cleaning up the room" in the concept of "cleaning up space or objects", but cleaning the room is not only a simple cleaning, but also a kind of thinking linkage.
In fact, "you don't know what you want to do" is changed to "improve yourself from improving the things around you, and regain control of your life", so this is an initial opportunity to break the "don't want to do" and "no motivation to execute".
A netizen of Station B has had such a personal experience, he was inspired by a video of a speech folded on a quilt.
Before folding the quilt, he was lazy, unable to persist, did not like to read and study, and was a short-term happiness addict, a bad and mediocre ordinary person.
After insisting on folding the quilt for a few weeks, he seems to have changed into a person, began to turn learning into a lifelong habit, insisted on reading and studying every day, summed up his progress every day, put into work in a good mood, and said goodbye to the moonlight family and began to have savings.
Not only that, but his relationships are better than before, and even the whole person's mentality is more stable, optimistic and positive than before.
These life changes all stem from the small act of "folding the quilt", like a lead that leads you to find more positive behaviors. When you have simple self-discipline behavior, you will find that life is not boring and empty every day, but can become more and more fulfilling and meaningful.
Each quilt folding was a bland but strong subconscious cue for him, the beginning of a day that reminded him of self-discipline.
Although it is only a simple matter of sorting out the simple things around you, there is a profound meaning behind every small tidying up action.
When we learn to organize the room spontaneously and understand the underlying logic of doing this, then our way of thinking will produce more linkage.
How to stick with it
Do something simple
Many times we are confused about life: why are there so many things we want to do and can't do? Why can others do it, but not themselves?
To know that no matter what you do, there will be times when you encounter difficulties, the key depends on your mentality, to see if you lack the ability to struggle, after all, it is easier to give up than to struggle, not too much!
Exercise the "ability to struggle.".
YouTube blogger @Wang Lu spent 4 years turning a messy kitchen into a neat kitchen. And the 4 years here refer to her "changing the kitchen from a messy normal to a neat normal now."
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In the process of tidying up, she encountered many obstacles, most of which reflected the problem of unclear thinking when she was tidying up, resulting in messy repetition in the later stage.
Insisting on doing every simple thing well, it finally took 4 years, and she finally overcame her own problems.
When encountering difficulties, we should not think about whether this thing will work or not, but we must struggle ourselves to get through the difficult period in order to usher in new hope.
Mental attrition needs to be eliminated.
To do a thing, it is always necessary to struggle with it or not, and most of it will not be done in the end, and this tangled emotion actually produces serious mental attrition.
The energy has been consumed, and naturally there is no motivation.
Clear thinking is needed.
When tidying up, you often encounter situations that need to make decisions, such as where to put this vase, whether to wear this dress or not, etc., if there are people with difficulty in deciding, it is easy to be overwhelmed by these small things.
Making decisions is really exercising your thinking and letting yourself know what you want.
Cleaning up your room is a way to exercise your thinking and help yourself sort out your own thinking.
If you plan to do something tomorrow, then you will almost never do it, if you really plan to change your life, then go for action now!
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