Welcome to Video number two. So in the last video, we were talking about p access, we were talking about what's important defining priorities and then getting to those feelings of freedom, fulfillment happiness. So let's talk a little bit more into that excess. That excess equals clutter. clutter means something different for everybody. But basically what that means is anything that is standing on the way from you and your goals, that is not serving you, we can see that that that is clutter.

So this is a really great definition that we love. It's from a website in the US, and they define it as anything that we don't need. We don't want or we don't use, that takes our time, energy, space and destroys our serenity. So as you can see, this cannot be applied to every area of your life. We're not just talking about physical items. We're talking about things that destroy Your serenity.

So that could be applied to so many examples. Sometimes hard for people to understand clutter, but maybe when I flip that screen, you had an immediate reaction to what you saw in this home office. And that is very clearly physical clutter. So here in this case, you know, it's not the ideal situation for the person who reached out into sharing this space, they want to change, they realized that they had a lot of clutter existing in their life. But the things that were there, they didn't just happen. This person was a very successful person running several businesses had two children.

100 Pets, like they were a very busy person. And then this was just the one area that started to become neglected. And then it became too big of a job to take on and you know what it's like to be time strapped and not have that ability to give yourself permission to spend time before you need to reach out and ask for help. So this is physical clutter. This is also another example of physical clutter that it you know, there's no judgment behind these pictures. This is just the results of what's what's not happening properly.

What in the kitchen isn't working for you because there's something wrong here. You know, there's a reason why there's stuff that's piling up and how can we make that better for you? Yeah, it's important once a month, I will say there is always a reason why. And I just want to mention that if you are watching this course, if you are watching this is because you probably are ready to make change in your life. So this is the only requirement for you to change. You just you just have to be willing to try something different.

You have to want it. Yeah, you have to be excited. You just have to say what I have been doing it now. It hasn't worked for me. And that's okay. I need help.

I need a new way to do things. I knew. I need ideas. I need something different. I want to try something different. So for us with all of our clients, that's what we always do.

We always ask what is your friend Patients are usually ready to try something different. And then when we get them excited, that's when they are ready to start moving forward. And that's so amazing. So you are here, you are ready to move forward, it's just a matter of time to make it happen. And we hope to share with you throughout the course a bunch of practical steps that you can implement in your life immediately, while you're watching these things, or at the end of the course, we wanted to talk about the different types of clutter. And so you can see from the switch from the slide here, we went from physical clutter, you know, in your spaces, your office, your kitchen, and then we dive into Okay, how many people have inbox overload, and you know, just constantly, it doesn't matter how often you clean it out, it seems to always come at you.

There's the digital clutter. So you know, your online personas, the things that you participate in music, streaming movies, all that kind of stuff. That's digital clutter. Yeah, I just want to mention notifications. That's a huge thing. How many apps do you have in your phone?

How many apps do you have? In your computer, if we don't make the intention of Yes, turning those notifications off, or at least a sound, I can tell you that every every five seconds, it's beeping, if you don't do anything, every five seconds is distracting you, that's clutter, that's going to distract you that's going to don't allow you to be focused on whatever you are doing. And that's minimalism can apply to that you can set the intention of saying what is important for me, what is not important? How often do you check those notifications? And how can you eliminate that clutter? Sometimes the clutter is also you know, our ability to spend and accumulate things with financial debt.

So if you've recently purchased a home or you have, you know, this lovely habit that you'd like to go and shop and you just seem to always end up with more than what you need or you're not recognizing where you're hemorrhaging money necessarily. You know, financial clutter is a real thing and and when it comes to finances, this is probably what adds to the majority of stress in people's lives because it's not something that is is just affecting you, you owe someone something, and you need to work to get that somewhere or you're not going to make that payment by that time. And then you're actually in the state where you feel panicked, you might feel have a lot of fear around that. And that really does a lot of damage for your, your mental health and the ability for you to, you know, feel well in your time.

Another thing, another huge thing is a gut and basically, we feel our cutting us with so many things that we are supposed to do. And sometimes it's just too much sometimes you just look at your calendar and you just want to crawl into the cards under a blanket and just disappear and doing that sometimes it's okay. And sometimes it's necessary. So by setting the intention of, again, using minimalism to identify what is important for me, what activities are really fulfilling me What is the stuff that I have to do and what is the stuff that I can choose to do or not to do. And then if you're feeling stressed, if you are feeling overwhelmed, what are the activities that you can cut? So yes, reflecting and making sure that there is no calendar clutter, and not too many tasks and activities that you have to do that can help you, like bring back that, like self care and that happiness into your life.

And we are very aware of having long to do lists, Mila and I are less people and we do have a lot of things that we want to achieve in our day in our life. So it is very, very easy to become overwhelmed with all the things that you want to do. And kind of ignoring potentially the priority to that list or letting people distract you from the things that you actually want to be doing. Or just not being realistic about the the time commitment and and the outcomes and being flexible for when things don't work out. So being overwhelmed by your own wants is an is another big one. Yeah, about to do list, there is a video in the extras that you will find.

And I made myself because I was struggling to to keep my to do list. And I guess I shared with you the system that I use right now. So feel free to go when you are done with this course you can watch that video and I'm sharing a lot of stuff and frustrations that I was having and how I fix them. And the last slide, this is something that when we were becoming foster parents, we were waiting and we saw this postcard. And we went for a mindfulness training Actually, yeah. And it was about mindfulness.

And so the reason why we have this slide is because a we think it's hilarious that this little cartoon bunny guy is like, what's that and he's like, Oh, it's just my mind, like exploding into a rainbow of vomit. And it's, it's all about the mental clutter, that these are things that is it's not visible. We don't have this, you know, cartoon rainbow following us around, but sometimes it is there. And it Israel. So how do you calm your mind? How do you gain control over your thoughts?

How do you set yourself up for success with the right mindset. And mental clutter is probably one of the most common growing trends in Western society at least, that we're finally catching up to the fact of Oh, wait, we have the ability to slow our minds, we have the ability to relax those muscles. And we just need to remember that we are in control of that. And we have the power to do that. But we are not making it a priority. So how can we start to incorporate more of those kinds of strategies in our life, so that we can feel more calm so that we can be coming from a place that is not filled with chaos, but where we're able to go about relationships, we're able to deal in business, we're able to, you know, relax it and be happy and so when that person cuts me off in the car, that's okay, I'm cool.

You You must have to go somewhere really fast. I don't So, mental clutters huge. And so we want to thank you for watching this section of the course. Again, if you have any questions about the different types of clutter or what clutter is, I really encourage you to see some of the resources that we're attaching here in terms of what we post on our blog, and and also some of the other content that we've created. Because again, that is our specialty. We are the decluttering experts.

That's where we're coming at minimalism from. So if you do have more questions, please just make sure you let us know and we will answer them or we will point you to the content that we've already created. That might be answering your question.