Declutter Your Mind and Keep It Freshly Cultivated
A famous devotional song in Bengali has these lines: “O mind! You don’t know how to cultivate. / The human field remains barren, / Would have grown golden crops if you cultivated it properly.” Nothing can be more appropriate than this. If managed properly, your mind can give you a repertoire of golden ideas. For this, you must declutter your mind from time to time, and must store there productive thoughts carefully. A cluttered mind can include: · Overthinking a subject · Focusing on the negative · Worrying about things that you cannot control · Holding onto negative emotions and experiences · Keeping a mental to-do list, including incomplete dreams and goals · Having external distractions and constant sensory inputs A cluttered mind wastes your time and energy. It gives rise to mental confusion, distraction, and disorganization that comes in the way of identifying priorities, making decisions, having focus, and be