Ep. 10 Making space, decluttering, minimalism [productivity hack]

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Hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis

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experience. I'm your host Aurora, life coach. And I'm very

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excited to be spending some time with you.

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It is. Yeah, the new year, maybe you can hear it in my voice. I'm

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fresh, I'm excited. I'm full of light and power. And I want to

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share this with you. I know January, February. Sometimes

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even March can be very tough. Our wallets feel drained, our

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energy is low. Depending how your Christmas your holidays

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went. The last part of the year can always be very emotional,

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drama ridden. And, yeah, I want to I want to empower you, I want

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to help you believe in yourself. I want to share the tools that

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I'm using that helped me to navigate through life.

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Everything I say here is my perspective is my opinion is my

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experience. I'm not a doctor. So yeah, if you struggle severely,

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please reach out to professional. And if you don't

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know who to reach out to contact me and we can find someone for

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you together. Now today, I want to talk about decluttering

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making space. Ah, it is very liberating. And I'm wondering if

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you've ever declared, did you ever have an experience? Did you

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ever make time to go through your stuff and to throw stuff

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out? And was it a good feeling? Maybe Maybe after a breakup?

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Maybe a change of season? Maybe you had to move and had to get

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rid of a bunch of stuff? Sometimes? Yeah, it is?

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Negative? Yeah, sometimes we're being forced to declutter,

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sometimes, yeah, it's been washed away by water by

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flooding, burned away by fire. But today, I want to talk about

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decluttering and making space and how that affects your mind.

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And your overall well being. Look around, maybe you're

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driving right now, maybe you're not at home. But next time you

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come home next time you come to your room, have a look at all

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the stuff that is there and really go through, you know, a

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mind list of joy, purpose, or dust collector and taking up

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space. So what are the things that you see in your room that

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bring you joy? What are the things that you room that serve

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a purpose? And what are the things that yeah, you're

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somewhat emotionally connected to, but they're more dust

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catcher than anything. And actually, you could let go of it

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once and for all. So that's the first thing I like to do. I like

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to do that several times a year. Especially when I feel the need

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to buy something to add something to my household. I

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learned to first go through a checklist of Do I really need

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this or what can I get rid of? First, sorry, I had a little

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distraction here. What can I What can I get rid of first and

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then replace it by something new that brings me joy. Making space

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is so important because every item that is in your space takes

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up energy as sucks energy out of you, or reminds you of a

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specific moment or experience that you really should let go

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off. You know how we sometimes keep things from our exes or the

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children moved out and we keep that little piece of item that

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reminds us of them and their childhood. Sometimes, yeah, the

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things that we have in our household are heavily loaded

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with energy that is not doing us good. And maybe you can notice

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in the next couple of days, weeks month, every time you go

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to some ones place every time you enter a new space, how the

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space makes you feel? And if it makes you feel especially good

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that you start wondering what is it that makes me feel good? Is

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it the smell? Is it the light? Is it the arrangement of

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furniture? Is it little details? Is it little personal items? Is

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it minimalism? Or is it heavily loaded? How do you enjoy beauty?

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When it comes to space? Where do you feel at home? If we feel

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that the world is unfair, and we feel lonely, and we feel like

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yeah, we want to express ourselves, but we don't really

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know how we tend to accumulate stuff that gives us a sense of

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self that we can identify with. That makes us feel homey. And

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that gives us a sense of Kompany. But what it really does

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is that it takes up space and that it takes away clarity. So

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try it out, try it out next time you come into a room that is

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spacious, that is empty. How does it make you feel? Do you

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get anxious Do you feel like oh my god, you have to stop this

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room full now because otherwise you don't feel good, and your

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skin or D actually feel very comfortable with minimalism. And

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maybe you followed me like a while ago. And you remember how

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I said that? When it comes to your well being, you can

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influence your health through your body, you can take care of

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your body, you can you know rehydrated, you can eat good

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food you can get more sleep, you can get more exercising, and

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that in turn, will affect your mind very positively. Or you can

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do inner work you can let go of resentment or address situations

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that you feel resentful towards to you can address your stress.

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And in doing the internal work, it will affect your external

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work. And same goes with your room with the space you live in.

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It usually reflects how you feel internally. Do you smoke

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indoors? Do you like collect lots of little items that have

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emotional attachments? Or are you always craving fresh air?

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And are you craving minimalism? Are you craving a healthy

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lifestyle? Do you really take care of what is giving you

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energy and what is sucking energy out of you. And last but

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not least I'm going to share with you my little challenge

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that I will start here for myself. When it comes to

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decluttering I decided that in the year 2022 I will not buy any

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clothing articles. Not that I have a problem. I'm not a

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shopaholic. But for some reason I always find an excuse to buy a

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piece of clothing. And I have so much stuff I went through all my

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stuff and so much stuff that I'm not wearing. And yeah, I want to

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see if when I set that goal now I'll start to feel withdrawal

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symptoms and it will be a little bit painful next time I want to

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click online and buy something

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because I've noticed doing or going through a little bit of a

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coffee withdrawal last year that I was highly addicted to that

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and it is once you start withdrawing from something very

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silly you think that you were

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realized fac I'm actually totally addicted to that and

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then it's actually good to let go of it for a moment. And to

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come back to it one once it feels right. Same was with

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chewing A gum. For years and years, I thought, oh yeah, just

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do that, because helps me when I feel bored and helps me to feel

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less anxious and it tastes good. And it's probably good for my

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teeth. And then I decided to go without it for 10 days. And,

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wow, the first two days were like, hell, I didn't know what

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to do with myself. And it is crazy because it's such a silly

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small thing to chew gum and you would think, yeah, that's just

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part of Aurora. That's just that's nothing right? It doesn't

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affect her health. It doesn't annoy anybody. But yet for me, I

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found out wow, I have withdrawal symptoms. So yes, I was addicted

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to that. So yeah, Declutter. Get rid of stuff that you don't

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really need anymore. Sell it, give it away to someone who can

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benefit from it, or toss it out. And be mindful with what you

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consume. Not only with your wallet, not only online, but

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also what you consume with your ears and your eyes, because it

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affects your mental health greatly. Thank you so much for

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listening. Thank you so much for buying me coffees. You guys are

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awesome, John. And Alan, I deeply appreciate you. I enjoyed

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my coffees and they give me so much courage and motivation that

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to connect. I appreciate you deeply. Thank you for listening,

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and take really good care of yourself. Until next time, bye

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