So as I said yesterday, I am in search of personal happiness. My first goal is DE cluttering my heart, soul and mind. After completing stage one, my mind, next is stage two, heart. This stage is hard and I still haven't reached the end. After losing two grandparents in the last two years, I have cluttered my heart with their personal items. When we lose a family member/someone close, we receive personal items of theirs and funeral booklets etc. I am finding it very hard to part with them from my view. I know it clutters my house and I am trying to DE clutter the house of knick knack but I am finding it hard to box them away in a cupboard. I have placed photos away in boxes and kept a couple of photos in view. I have kept a brooch of nana's in my room. I have a photo of my granddad next to my DH's record player, my granddad loved country music. I have framed an album of his that will hang on the wall in my living room. I wear a necklace of my nana's and my DD wears one too. My home office is cluttered with boxes of items and photos. I know I need to go through them but find it still to painful. I know it has to be done. Have you got any tips for DE cluttering loved ones items. My brother in-law plays a game of chuck it, but I can't chuck these items.
As I said yesterday, our happiness is our own happiness. No one else can tell us how to be happy or make us happy. We have to look down deep inside to find our own happiness. Most of us, me included, live our life, day by day, doing the same things, just getting it done. Reading Gretchen's books, has helped me to realise that we all need to get out of this rut. I am in a large rut of checklists and routine. Time to shake it up and not do what society thinks we should do. We don't need anyone's approval to be happy.
I know I need to go through those boxes and I know I need to clean them so I can move onto stage three, DE cluttering my soul. I don't even know at the moment what that means. How does one clear the soul of clutter? I know that I need to find my belief again. My belief in me, family and God. I feel like my life is so cluttered with negativity that I have shut out all belief in life. With society changing, I have lost my belief in life being good.
Keep Smiling. Cheers, Mama Kerry
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