Simplifying Your Life: The Power of Decluttering and

Eliminating

With Jim Bunch

Mastering Your Mindset

Are We Too Busy To Breathe?

Introduction: Simplify Your Life The Power of Eliminations

• We are all busy living at least 3 separate lives: our work, our family life and our personal (aka: home) life.

• When things get hectic, what typically takes the backseat?

Introduction: Simplify Your Life The Power of Eliminations

• Many people believe the key to living a more fulfilling life is to accumulate more. We are finding the opposite is true.

• If you have a goal to create more balance and enjoy life more, we believe this is best achieved by eliminating clutter and “stuff” from your life.

Introduction: Simplify Your Life The Power of Eliminations

• It is not uncommon for people to feel as if they are overloaded, overwhelmed

• This overwhelm can create an inability to focus, a feeling of lacking control and always in reaction mode.

• By eliminating the unnecessary, you will find you are able to respond in a creative mode rather than reaction mode.

Training Objectives: Simplify Your Life The Power of Eliminations

• Understand what De-Cluttering and Elimination is all about

• Learn how having too much “stuff” can actually get in the way of our own personal freedom

• Understand the Benefits of Simplifying your life

• Understand how and where you decide to eliminate in your life

Question for Discussion:

What Are Some Of The Things We Collect And Gather In Our Lives?

Question For Discussion: What Are Some Of The Things We Collect And Gather In Our Lives?

• Stuff (Clutter)

• Memories

• Relationships

• Obligations

• Tolerations

• Incompletions

Question For Discussion: What Causes Clutter To Accumulate In Your Life?

Question For Discussion: What Causes Clutter To Accumulate In Your Life?

• Negative thoughts, people and relationship with clutter, money or toys (addiction, compulsion, scarcity)

• Too much stuff• Too many activities• Obligations• Poor health• Extra weight• Negative thoughts• Information

• Tolerations• Incompletions• Rules• Judgments• E-mail• Stress/worry• Old stories from the past• Scarcity beliefs • Home and yard needing

maintenance

Question for Discussion:

What Are Some Of The Benefits Of Simplifying Your Life & Eliminating?

Question For Discussion: What Are Some Of The Benefits Of Simplifying Your Life & Eliminating?

•Better Focus

•Free time to do what you love

•Able to design your life as you choose

•Increased energy

•Peace of mind

•Ability to stay present in the moment

•Creates a feeling of lightness

•More happiness, health and wealth

Key Point: Eliminating Feels Good

• Decluttering releases natural endorphins that make people feel better.

• Decluttering can give you a mental, physical and emotional surge of energy.

Key Point: Things can be replaced. Time cannot.

• Many people feel if they declutter, they will miss that item.

• In reality, you will quickly forget this item in about one week and the time saved by having a clutter-free life can be spent doing what you truly love in life.

Key Point: Everything Is Energy And It’s All Connected

When it comes to eliminating things from your life:

If you are energetically still connected to something, you will be closing off the potential to grow into a new way of being.

Example: You really want to eliminate negative people from your life, and your ex spouse is one of those negative people. You continue to spend time with him/her on a romantic date. Even though brief, you have not completely ended this negative relationship, and you will continue to attract negative people as a bi-product of staying attached in this way.

Exercise: List The Clutter, Tolerations, Incompletes You Have In Each Of These 9 Environments

• Physical

• Financial

• Network

• Relationships

• Body

• Self

•Spiritual

•Nature

•Memetics

Which Environments Had The Most Clutter &

What Is The Impact On Your Success?

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Question for Discussion

Key Point: Emotions Will Come Up When Eliminating

• As you begin decluttering and eliminating, you will find certain emotions come up (fear of loss, fear of change, fear of the unknown).

• This is a part of the process

• Focusing on what you are gaining instead of losing, and getting the support of a coach during this time, will help you to move through these emotions

Keep Your Head Up by Andy Grammer

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Key Point: There is a “root-cause” to clutter

• A dysfunctional relationship with “things” is like a dysfunctional relationship with another person.

• The root cause could be a belief system, cultural norm, or teaching from a parent or teacher.

• The dysfunctional relationship needs to be addressed at its root cause; otherwise, clutter will continue to resurface.

Key Point: Decluttering Can Move You Forward Faster In Life

• If your home is filled with mementos, photographs and reminders of your past struggles, it will be more difficult to move forward

Key Point: Look For The Domino Effect

• Decluttering and elimination will often create a domino effect in your life (changing certain behaviors may impact other relationships in your life)

Example: You give up alcohol and your social circle changes. Your spouse says he or she is fully supportive of your choice, but as your social circle changes, your spouse’s social situation may change as well.

Key Point: Elimination Is A Natural Process

• Our body is in a constant state of detoxifying. We must take oxygen in and expel CO2.

• We consume liquids and solids and expel liquids and solids.

• Everyday a healthy body eliminates millions of dead cells and then replaces them with new ones.

• The human body is a perfect model and reminder of the importance of elimination in all areas of our lives.

Key Point: Organizing Your Life Is An Ongoing Process

De-cluttering and elimination are all about:

•organizing your life so you are happy, healthy and wealthy in this order.

•designing your environments to work and live efficiently and effectively and with little stress

It is an ongoing process of looking at the real reasons why clutter accumulated in the first place (addiction, irrational decisions, over-committed because you can't say no)

In order for clutter to stop accumulating in your life, it is important to not only look at elimination and decluttering but looking at improving the behaviors that brought you to this place

Question for Discussion:

What Are Some Strategies For Eliminating And

Simplifying Your Life?

Question For Discussion: What Are Some Strategies For Eliminating And Simplifying Your Life?

• Donate It

• Sell It

• Recycle it

• Trade It

• Store It (these need to be dated, and if something is stored for more than 6 months without use, it is time to donate. The only exception is legal and tax documents you must keep for a certain time frame.)

Question for Discussion: What are some strategies for eliminating and simplifying your life?

• Clean up your communication (be crystal clear and laser like in all communication)

• Stop all junk mail, emails, etc.

• Eliminate all unnecessary steps in your day

• Start saying “no” to things that don’t bring you joy

• Each time you bring something new into your home or office, eliminate two objects (if you cannot eliminate two things for each new object, then you don’t need the new object)

Question For Discussion: What Are Some Strategies For Eliminating And Simplifying Your Life?

• Detox the body of all chemical substances (ask your physician about a detox regimen)

• Stop spending time with negative people (negative people take up a great deal of space in life)

• Fix or replace all broken equipment

• Allow for open space on all shelves, in your pantry and in your fridge

• Limit the number of “knick-knacks” you have in your home or office

Question For Discussion: What Are Some Strategies For Eliminating And Simplifying Your Life?

• Clean your car (inside and out) one time each week

• Eat to “Cleanse” vs “Clog”

• Exercise daily

• Get in the habit of removing 1 item, thought, or habit that is no longer serving you from your environment each day.

• If you are overweight, drop 5 pounds in one month (we do not recommend rapid weight loss). Notice how much lighter life feels without this weight.

• Stop gossiping& Stop worrying

Key Point: Nature Abhors A Vacuum When something is eliminated, something else is going to fill the void.

If you are not clear on what you want when you are removing something, then subconsciously you may block the removal because you are unsure of what you want in that space.

Elimination and decluttering are daily habits that are required of us as an action used to prevent overload.

If we are not constantly in the act of decluttering, our lives will not have the open space needed for the new people, thoughts, wealth and health we are trying to attract.

Key Point: Boundaries are the Key to Maintaining Healthy Environments

• What if you are tolerating a negative relationship with someone close to you or co-workers or clients?

You need to have a conversation and learn to put new boundaries in place.

Example of boundaries with a client: Having an agreement around when you are available. Let them know, in order to achieve your goal of providing excellent products and services, you will have to remove distractions during blocked times, such as prospecting time.

Activities

1) Pick ONE environment to start your eliminations/simplifying in, then post before/after pictures in the Achievers Daily VIP Coaching and Support Community

2) Share your eliminations/simplify list with your Accountability Partner and/or Achievers Daily VIP Coaching and Support Community

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