this video is sponsored by skillshare. A couple of days ago i got home from work and
i felt dirty. So naturally i took a shower to feel clean, as you do, and when i came out i still felt
dirty. So i bought a new shower gel-maybe my last one wasn't cleansing enough- and i bought a new
toothbrush and some razors but i still felt dirty. It was then i realized i was in fact super clean
myself but my apartment and my life felt a little bit messy. Just in time for the
annual spring cleaning i decided i had to clean up more than my apartment to feel a fresh start.
Mentally speaking, i'm doing wonderful right now; maybe the best ever. But that doesn't mean i have
pure mental clarity in my life. So i thought it was time for me to do a little bit of cleansing,
and hey maybe some of this resonates with you. Maybe you need a change in your life too.
Kkay if we do this in order of how i did it i'm doing it it started with the physical
cleaning first my body and then my apartment i spent this was yesterday maybe six hours
just cleaning getting rid of everything i almost felt like i was going a little bit
minimalist because i got rid of so much clothes and i don't even own that much clothes anyway
so when i looked at my wardrobe at the end i was like oh i'm going to be out for repeating a lot
from now on what i found when i was getting rid of lots of clothes was that i was holding on to items
that i had for years and i'd never worn because for example i wanted a pair of white jeans
in my wardrobe but the white jeans i had didn't fit me nice i they didn't flatter me and i didn't
feel good wearing them but i wanted the white pair jeans in my wardrobe for if the occasion arrives
so i decided i'm not gonna hold on to clothes they don't make me feel good they don't resonate with
my style anymore that don't fit right literally and metaphorically though i got rid of all of
the clothes which ended up being quite a lot that didn't feel like present me and didn't fit
present me in the best way something else when i was cleaning my apartment that really felt good
was specifically the kitchen and the bathroom i don't know if anyone else is like me but i owned a
gazillion bathroom products and really my daily routine i only use a few i would hold on to
makeup products from three years ago just in the off case i might use it so it felt really good
to get rid of a lot of my bathroom products and now when i open that drawer it's not scary it
is in fact slightly organized i am a young woman after all it's never going to be perfect and in
terms of the kitchen i just have so many niche products because i think i'm like most people
and i like to cook globally so i have ingredients that are traditionally for asian dishes and i have
ingredients that are traditionally for british dishes and likewise with italian and spanish
and mexican and so on and so forth and my kitchen was just a mess so getting rid of products i used
for one meal that i never really liked but i don't want to put it in the bin and just organizing the
kitchen a little bit better and putting away that object that looks messy even though it kind of
had to be there again gave me more mental clarity because now when i cook i feel like i'm in a clean
space i find that when your apartment is clean and condensed to what needs to be laid out in front
of your eyes you feel way less distractions i know that i can't work if the area around
me is a mess because i get fixated on the objects that are out of place now when it comes to spring
cleaning we all know about physical cleaning and spending a day or a weekend cleaning our house our
apartment our bedroom whatever it may be but no one talks about the other forms of cleaning up.
For example :cleaning your time up. Is there a hobby that you're still dedicating yourself
to even though you're no longer interested in? Maybe now is the time to stop it and
focus on what present you actually wants to do stop holding on to the past and all the
things that used to make you and start looking at what present and future you want to be. I
almost feel like spending time wisely is more important than spending your money wisely because
time is something we can't get back money we can. So stop wasting your time with things that
no longer make you happy. Of course i'm not saying go quit your job. Listen i have a job too and as
fun as it would be to quit and just be jobless and roll the streets free... i have bills to pay. So
maybe let's change this to "things that don't please you or things that
will make your life better" . When it comes to cleansing and cleaning up your time in the
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Okay a third form of cleansing that i learned the hard way last year is digital cleansing. how many
of you guys have essays from free university courses ago that no longer are relevant? or
you have 50 selfies from the same day because you can't choose which is the best one? Digital
cleaning is something that i think we can hide from us a lot of the time but when you click on
that folders file and you see a gazillion folders that are all unimportant it can distract you and
it can make you feel messy. I like to, honestly, maybe once a month go for my camera roll and
delete all the screenshots that only served the purpose for 10 minutes and i tried to delete all
the unnecessary pictures of myself. You know, if i have 50 pictures at the eiffel tower during
my trip in Paris last month, when i'm 50 years old i'm not gonna want to look at 100 photos of
myself from that same moment.. I'm going to want one and I want it to be a memorable one you know
and by doing this we all know that your phones don't have unlimited storage but by deleting
these old memories that aren't necessarily serving you the biggest purpose you're gonna have way more
room for future memories. All of those old files you don't need say goodbye really don't don't
even leave them in the recycling box delete them from the recycling box get rid of them because
manchester isn't a physical space it's still clogging up your vision when you're trying to work
or you feel messy when you're trying to find something because your files are so disorganized
so when you're cleaning your apartment think about cleaning your laptop and your phone too.
Okay the last thing that i found really important in cleaning is cleaning up my mind. And this one
is a little bit harder to discuss because cleaning up your mind can mean a billion things
so i'm going to try and explain this in the most simple way possible. what baggage are
you holding on to that you don't need to be? You should be living life like you travel with
ryanair light so get rid of all the extra baggage you don't need live purposefully
and something that i've really been trying to do lately is get rid of old anxieties. I'm someone,
and i think i'm not alone in this, that if i made a mistake in the past or i said something to upset
someone (but i didn't mean it) i will hold on to that until the grave and i've been trying lily to
let go of the mistakes i've made in the past that are still causing me anxiety to this day.
Knowing that okay, me from three years ago who said that one thing by accident
three years of grieving over it and being anxious over is enough and i need to get rid
of it. I don't know if this is quite relevant but i want to just throw in a quote that i heard and
i want you guys to think about it: "no man steps in the same river twice for he is not the same man
and it is not the same river". This really helps me to let go of things in the past because i can
think that that version of me is not the me that i'm living today and i don't want to get to even
to philosophy in this field it's definitely for another time but the mistakes i made in the past
helped me grow to who i am today and hopefully if i'm a good person i've learned from these mistakes
and so i need to let go of the guilt i feel from it you know i think we have to get rid of
everything that is holding us back whether that's fears for new skills we want to learn or new jobs
we want to take the risk to try and get so that we can go into the present and future
with a clearer mind and a mind that's more dedicated to what's going to make us happy
unless philosophical no a good thing i've been thinking about in terms of cleaning up my mind
is finishing old tasks that i know need done so i can make space for new ones because simple things
that you know you need to get done but you aren't doing them stops you from doing the future ones
and you end up in this train of being behind on stuff so i really think it's important to
take a day and you know get rid of all those email subscriptions that you've been meaning to do
for years or go to the charity shop and give all that old clothes that's been sitting in
the bin bag for a year so that these tasks can be ticked off and it can clear up your mind.
Okay i hope this has encouraged you guys to do your own version of spring cleaning
whether it be mental physical digital cleaning up your spare time i really think that by doing these
four things you can find better mental clarity and you can just feel cleaner in general
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