The Importance of Clearing
Getting Rid of Unfit

We brush our teeth multiple times a day, wash our hair, and take showers. We clean our houses to maintain the level of cleanliness. But how often you do the cleaning to get rid of unnecessary?
Do you dare to get rid of everything that doesn’t fit? And I’m not talking about clothes exclusively.
Yes, you may start up with cleaning your closet. You can go through each piece and try to be as objective as possible. Try not to get too emotional over things that carry emotional value. If you don’t need something, get rid of it. You can still keep the positive emotions associated with it while clearing the space.
Rate your items based on aesthetic appeal and usefulness. If you want to perform strict cleaning, you will want your items to be both beautiful and useful. If you want them to be beautiful you may rate color, design, pattern, style and so on. If you rate them 1–10 how high you will set a benchmark?
With useful items, you may sacrifice some beauty. If you just like something but can’t use it, it is time to say good bye. Unless you plan to make a modern art installation.
Once you select items that pass the above test, you need to make sure they fit. If they don’t fit you, they hardly can be called useful. But let’s say you have a rain jacket. It fits you perfectly. But you live in a desert and you don’t travel to rainy places, the chances are high you don’t need it. And what about those beautiful clothing pieces for special occasions? How many should you keep? Depends on the number of special occasions you attend. Your clothing should fit you. If you are demanding, it should be flattering to your body but it also should fit your circumstances.
Let’s move to other items in the home. If you care only about utility and less about design, that is fine. If you buy laptops based on aesthetics, that is fine. Keep pleasant for the eye (and soul) objects. However, if you aim high, you will try to have both nice and useful things that actually fit your lifestyle. Beer glasses are useless unless you drink beer. The juicer is useless unless you make fresh juices. And it usually does not resemble an art piece if keeping the space in your kitchen.
Moving away from objects, we get to something that is trickier to organize than our closets — our relationships. I don’t recommend getting rid of your family if you are not happy, although sometimes that is the best solution. You can adjust the time spent with problematic family members. I strongly suggest you update your friendships and connections to make them relevant for your current state of life and mind.
Clear your mind regularly and you will be able to bring new people to your life, people according to your current preferences and needs.
Maybe you had a great match for clubbing but if you are over clubbing you realize that you don’t have much to do or talk about. Quit. Quit friendships you overgrow. Like the clothing that is overgrown, they bring no value to your life. They make clutter. And they take space from something better.
Quit friendships based on history. Think fondly of your past and accept that best times for you two are over. The same applies to partnerships. If you two have a great history but not a great present, don’t wait for the brighter future together. Get your satisfaction on the different paths.
You hardly can feel sorry for not liking pizza and loving avocado. Or liking yellow much more than you like blue that used to be your favorite color. Be blunt with people as well. If you feel the need, you may explain your decision but you don’t need to justify yourself.
Once you update yourself and get more in line with your current self, you get used to practicing authenticity, you get to do more things you enjoy. And more you do things that keep you awake at night, it is easier to fall asleep. Maybe you will go to bed later but your sleep will be firmer and you will wake up fresher eager to begin a new day.
It’s a challenge even for Richard Branson to get rid of everything that doesn’t fit. He certainly faces things he doesn’t find satisfying. And some of those things, problems, challenges, inspire him to create positive change.
So if you don’t enjoy your job, don’t quit right away but try to move in direction of a change that will make you bloom.
