Think outside the box!

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right."

So it's fair to say that over the Christmas period my room had started to build up a nice collection of rubbish. Wrappers, scrap pieces of cello tape, receipts, off cuts of wrapping paper. It was just such a busy time, there wasn't enough time to sort it. So today's mission; mission christmas clean up.

As I started to go through the stuff that had built up in my room I began putting it into piles before eventually placing it in boxes. There was so much stuff and quite simply there wasn't room for anymore in my room. Somethings had to go. So boxes and straight to the attic it was.

As I began to fill the boxes, I soon realised that there was not enough room in the boxes I had, and I had to find something to do with the things I had left over. I had to think of other places I could store things, or even throw things away.

Well, after a good 2 hours sort out and mass clean job, my room was back to normal. Everything in it's place, organised, clean and best of all....plenty of space. Probably ready to fill with more rubbish over the next coming months.

As I was cleaning I couldn't help but be reminded of the saying;

"Think outside the box."

As the boxes were filling, and I was running out of space, it was clear that I needed to think of other ways, outside of the boxes, that I could sort my stuff. With a bit of thought, I was soon able to sort everything out and be left with a clear room, free of clutter that I had let build up.

And so I end with this thought.

In life, so often we accumulate things. We let things build up and before we know it our lives are filled with clutter. It looks disorganised, it looks messy, and we don't really have much room for anything else. So often we can get caught up with the clutter around us that we find it hard to see past things. We try and fill boxes with our worries, troubles, concerns. We try to push them all into boxes. Those things that were anxious about, stressed about, all squeezing into a few boxes.

But it doesn't take to long to realise there aren't enough boxes for all your things, and really you need to think outside the box.

In life, try not to fill your life with clutter, try not to let your life become so crowded with "stuff" that you have no space to live. In life, try to think outside the box. Get rid of some things, store other things away, but ultimately get yourself some space.

Most of the time it's not about thinking outside the box but it's realising "Actually there's no box around there at all!"

Life happens - Bywyd yn digwydd.

Ryan :)