If you are reading this, you must be a visionary who’s willing to make significant changes in your life.
Right now you’re looking for a little more motivation. Scattered somewhere, ready to fuel your energy.
Half your soul is screaming, “Now is the perfect moment. New Year, New Me!”
With that inner scream, your steps begin. Tip-toed, but it is started.
“Relax, it’s called baby steps.”
In the right momentum, accompanied by a turbulent soul and burning enthusiasm. You opened the Google search engine.
You typed “2023 resolution.”
Then witness many “new year’s resolution inspirations” popping up.
Without warning, you clicked on them one by one. With the intention of combining ideas that you think would make sense.
Have you don’t this before?
This time is different, you found a blog that’s a little ticklish. Instead of trying to give you an answer, it is actually asking you back:
“New year’s resolution, again?”
As if you’ve spent half of your life making resolution after resolution.
Couldn’t be more accurate, isn’t it?
The Every Year-end Failure
Spending the last quarter of the day on December 31st, 20xx to record major changes plan, one by one. Most of which were transferred from the previous year.
One target becomes two, two becomes four, four to eight, eight to 16, 32, and out of nowhere you’ve filled 2 full pages. Wrote your resolutions for the upcoming year without even considering them.
“Increase my income.”
“Improve my network, because it’s my net worth.”
“Subscribe to a gym service.”
“Add more productive hobbies.”
Exhausted?
Not yet. You are still in the passionate stage. Excessive optimism leads you further.
Unconsciously, the clock already pointing at 23:51.
“I’d like to stop and watch fireworks,” you think.
10 minutes passed, clock is showing 00:01, and then, …
Fireworks erupted, the color reflected upon your eyes.
It is bright and full of color. Captivating.
“This is the moment, I will change for the better, tomorrow” you mumble.
On New Year’s Eve, you vow to yourself that you will be more productive.
Set up goals to be more. Because you think it will encourage you to do more in the future.
More often than not, it fails.
Even worse, you don’t know why it failed.
The Cure to the Failure
Statistics show that more than 50% of New Year’s resolutions end up in piles of bookshelves. Waiting to be rewritten at a later date.
What about you? Are you in that 50%?
Like you, I also write a New Year’s resolution.
But my resolutions don’t end up on a bookshelf waiting to be rewritten at the beginning of next year.
What makes me capable of executing my New Year’s resolution?
It lies in the ritual I’ve set for myself, and you can adopt it too.
It’s decluttering. Maximizing the mindset of minimalism.
I can live 2022 better. I have succeeded in fulfilling the 2022 resolution that I have made.
I copied my 2021’s resolution, and then discard some resolutions that are too grandiose, or those that are less urgent.
You can do it too!
By forcing yourself to minimize all aspect of your life, your brain will notice that you have full control over your body.
Let’s take your New Year’s resolution as an example.
Do you want to successfully live in 2023 while carrying out each of the resolutions you have made? Declutter.
We are too obsessed with improving everything. On one hand, it undermine the enormity of reduction.
Adding capacity, adding income, increasing good relations and increasing productivity, are no better than cut expenses, cut negative relationships, and cut unproductive habits.
Take a look at all items in your room. There must be a lot of things that you still keep even though you haven’t used for 6 months.
Try to scan the list of applications on your mobile phone. There must be some apps that you haven’t opened in the last 100 hours.
Decluttering is not as easy as it sounds. Naturally, it’s easier to add than to subtract.
However, when you have mastered this action, you will feel a lot lighter.
You suddenly have more control over yourself and your surroundings.
Start now. Rewrite your 2023 resolution.
Declutter them, and put decluttering as one of your resolutions.
Start slow, example:
- Donate clothes you haven’t use in the last 3 months.
- Delete mobile app that you didn’t open in the last month
- Clean your room, get rid of papers that’s not relevant anymore.
- Remove unused kitchen tools and furniture.
- Cut bad thoughts and bad habits.
Include the word declutter in each of your goals. Then live the 2023 with me, while continuing to evaluate our resolution, slow but sure.
If you stay consistent until the end of the year, you’ll get addicted to this lifestyle.
So what are you waiting for? Start decluttering now, and let’s be a minimalist!