Decluttering the Mind

College football is on, summer is gone and the kids have been back in school for over a month. Order has returned to our household. Leisure days have been replaced with schedules and the next 8 months will be filled focus and productivity. Well…that is the goal.

It’s hard for me to work from home. There are many distractions and thoughts that cause my mind to go array each time I sit down. I need to wash this load of laundry before Noah’s soccer practice tonight. Or…If I prepare this dish now, we can have a decent dinner tonight and I’ll still be able to make that meeting.

I’ve tried organizing the house and removing the clutter. But somehow it doesn’t help with the decluttering of my mind. Hundreds of half-thoughts swirl around in my brain and prevent me from completing a thought or project.

Perhaps I am a bit A.D.D. but there must be steps I can take that go beyond decluttering my physical space and into my mental space. So I began to do a bit of research and pulled together a few steps I found that may be beneficial to those you who also deal with lack of cerebral order. Most are common sense and ones I’ve seen before but often repetition and reminders are all we need.

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