This morning, I listened to an Optimal Living Daily podcast titled “The Weight of Emotional Clutter”.
The concept reminded me of a post from earlier this year titled “Clutter Blocking Your Wellbeing”.
In this post, I looked at how clutter could show up in all 8 dimensions of wellbeing – occupational, physical, emotional, environmental, intellectual, spiritual, financial, and social.
During the podcast, one of the offhand comments that caught my attention was the mention of “purposeful self-care”. They didn’t go into what this means, just a quick mention.
We hear about self-care all the time, but this statement provided the intentionality that I often think is missing from the discussion around self-care.
My Perspective
Each of us needs different kinds of self-care.
We are all working on different dimensions of our wellbeing.
The “clutter” we are working through is different.
And the approaches to self-care that works for one of us may not work for another.
Because there is no one-size-fits-all approach to self-care, applying “purposeful self-care” is needed.
Today I plan to spend some time thinking about the clutter in my life and considering how I could intentionally alleviate the stress and clutter.
My goal is to design some purposeful self-care.
Your Turn
What dimension of wellbeing is the one you are struggling with “clutter”?
What self-care would help alleviate that stress and clutter?
How could you work at least 5 minutes of that purposeful self-care into your day today?