If you have tried everything to remain healthy but still failed, you may want to consider minimalist self care.
Minimalism can help you live a simple life by eliminating the things that you can live without.
Self-care is anything that can help you enhance your physical, emotional, or mental health. What if you combine minimalism and self-care to help you get your work done without putting your mind and body in harm’s way?
How Clutter Can Impact Mindfulness
When you are working on a certain project, it feels inevitable that your workspace fills with clutter. It is also possible that your workspace is already messy before you even begin working.
What do you feel when you look at your messy table?
Do you feel like your energy is slipping out of your body even if you’re not doing anything yet?
Try to tidy up your workspace and organize everything, then look at it again.
Do you still feel like taking a nap and ditching your work?
Tidying up and liberating your workspace from the clutter that invaded it can bring back the sense of order. It helps you see the things that you need to prioritize first and follow a systematic flow of doing things. An orderly and organized work area can improve your ability to focus and make you feel better. You also gain a sense of satisfaction from reclaiming your work area.
Here are some minimalist self care tips that you can adapt into your daily routine.
Minimalist Self Care: 5 Tips
Tip #1: Remove All the Things that Cause Clutter
If you are working from home, it is advisable to eliminate all the things that contribute to clutter.
Treat the space in your home as your work area.
It is impossible for you not to see each room or area in your house when you are working from home. You may want to remain in one particular room, but it is almost impossible to do so.
Most people who work from home face the same dilemma of checking other things in the house while they are working.
The figurine that you got as a freebie should go. You also need to throw out the other things that make your home look messy. You may keep simple, functional décor to create the ambiance that you want to maintain. Keep only one or two throw pillows on the couch.
The table you are using when you are working must be kept clean and clutter-free. The only things that your work table should accommodate are the documents, some papers, and tools that you will need to perform your work.
Have a covered garbage bin nearby so you can throw away the things that create a messy-looking work area while you do your task. This way, you can prevent clutter from accumulating and stop stress from invading your life. If you keep doing this, it can turn into a habit that makes you move your hand automatically to remove any clutter on sight.
This minimalist self care tip can help a lot in keeping your stress at bay.
Tip #2: Look for Minimalist Motivation
If you can’t part from your decorations and other things in your home that don’t provide any benefit, try to find a reason or purpose that can motivate you to go minimal.
This means getting rid of things that don’t contribute anything in making your life easier and will only add to clutter later.
Seeing so much space can help lessen your anxiety and make you feel calm.
It is also ideal to paint the room with a color that can ease your mind and make you feel at ease. You can remain focused on the things that you need to do when you don’t see many objects.
Tip #3: Ask for a Friend’s Help to Get Rid of Things for You
Create guidelines regarding the things that you need to donate, discard, or keep.
Ask your friend to give you a reality check when sorting your things and also help you throw out the things that you don’t need anymore. Most of the time, people keep their useless things because of their sentimental value – not good for your emotional well-being.
You may be fine to get rid of something while looking at it but may end up keeping it once you touched it. You can ask your friend to get rid of a particular item that you need to let go of but couldn't.
Tip #4: Keep Things in Their Proper Places
After sorting out everything, you need to designate specific places to keep the things that you need to keep and avoid clutter.
Put them in specific storage closets, bins, shelves, drawers, or cabinets to keep them safe and organized. When you pull out something from its place, make it a habit to return it at once after you are done using it. Don’t leave it anywhere and contribute to the mess.
This practice can also help you develop a systematic way of organizing your things, files, papers, and others. You can save time when looking for a particular item because you know exactly where to find it. You can also put labels to help you remember the content of a particular storage or folder.
This particular minimalist self care tip can help lessen your anxiety and increase your productivity. You can do more things when you don’t keep looking for your stuff all around the house.
Tip #5: To Pare Down Mental Clutter, You Need to Stop Multitasking
At a glance, multitasking seems to be a viable solution in finishing so many things at once.
You may even think that you are good at it!
In reality, multitasking can indeed help you finish your different tasks on time but with so many errors. You shift from one task to the other… And might fail to see a more fitting solution in accomplishing a particular work. Your mind is in a total mess.
Avoid putting your mind in a state of chaos when you focus on finishing a particular task before jumping to the next. Then, eliminate distractions when you do that and feel proud for finishing your work without making too many mistakes. You will also feel less stressed or frazzled.
When you practice minimalist self care, you can train your brain to remain in the present and help you focus only on a specific task.
You also need to be mindful of the things that you bring into your home to avoid creating future clutter.
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