Do you realise that when you want to clean up a room, you will mess it up first? Before you can organise, you need to un-organise your things.

Bring all the things that need to be sorted out and lay them all in front of you, so that you can look at them and decide how to deal with each item - to store, to throw, or to give away.

You are messing up your place, and suddenly you begin to wonder if you should be doing this after all. Whatever that’s not broken, don’t fix it. But now as you sit there looking at the mess you’ve just created, a tinge of regret swept to your heart.

“No, I will do it. I have to clear all this mess so that I can have a more spacious room!”

As you sat there with a higher level of awareness, you made a resolution.

Then you start to work on them. Within the next few hours, you notice a pattern emerging. When the pile seems to be going down, suddenly it builds up again as some boxes open up to even more contents spewing out.  

You begin to wonder again, when will this be cleared. Will it ever clear?

Another wave of regret swelled up inside you.

As soon as you feel this way, you turn and see a huge garbage bag with all the unwanted but stored for too long stuff that you are finally discarding. Beside that is another load that you plan to give away. As for those that need to be stored, they are either tucked away where they belong, or placed neatly in another pile waiting for another sorting to decide where it shall be housed.

Suddenly, the regret is replaced by another feeling. You ponder for a second, and felt that - satisfaction.

And you know that it is only a matter of time that the mess will eventually clear. More space will be freed up.

Less is more.

As this epiphany hits you, you start to think about how much this will benefit you, if you were to apply such a logic to your life.

Besides clearing mess, what other areas need a spring cleaning as well? How about your thoughts? Do they chock up your mental system?

How about some pent-up emotions blocking your way to a better and more loving relationship with your partner?

Whatever it is, remember the golden rule - to sort out thing, you first need to handle the mess.

Do not let that mess deter you, for what you can gain at the end of it will surely make the entire journey worth the ride. 

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