Is any of that easy, nope! Is it doable? Definitely!Ĭounselling can help. Keeping your mind clean and organised means letting go of self-criticism, shame, blame, and fear. These are tools to build the strong and flexible foundations needed to truly live from a place of mental and physical calm. Self-acceptance, self-compassion, accepting your (and other people’s) flaws, listening to yourself, self-care, building confidence – we build self-esteem by doing estimable things – working on and committing to doing something every day that helps you to grow, however small. Like a strong oak in the wind.Ĭlinging to lists, journals and affirmations, whilst trying to meditate are positive ways to de-clutter your mind but won’t work long-term unless you’re able to accept life for what it is.īecause what will happen, is one day, just as you feel you are ‘organised’ up top, something will hit you like a bolt from the blue, a criticism, a change of plan, a crisis, a breakup, an illness – and it might come crashing down around you. I believe, to keep an ‘organised’ mind, you need the ability to be centred and grounded in yourself whatever happens around you. No amount of ‘tips and tricks’ offered by life coaches can help your mind to become organised, if you’re living from a place of fear. I see many self-help books offering up the same old advice, but many miss the basics. So, if you really want an organised mind’ the way to get there may seem counter intuitive. So what do people really mean when they say they desire an organised mind? Some semblance of control over their lives? Peace amid the celebral noise? Much of this racket derives from our fear of letting life happen as it will. Life will happen, in all its confusion and chaos.Īnd your brilliant mind will on occasions simply refuse to be quietened and flattened into piles of carefully chosen thoughts. And however organised you try to keep your mind, emotions will fly through and disrupt your good work, unpleasant experiences seeping into the calm. Hopes and dreams stored neatly in a scented drawer.īut we aren’t robots. The organised mind evokes images of your brain in tidy sections, unpleasant thoughts taken out for recycling, your pristine to-do-list on the whiteboard.

The organised mind book