unblock your mind

There is something soul-cleansing about cleaning. Something about ridding the dirt, disposing of the garbage, clearing the excess, cleansing what does not belong from your space. But unlike physical spaces, which while demanding, are quite viscerally satisfying when the cleaning is complete, cleaning up your inner world is challenging in that it is hard to detect when the task is done. We know what a clean space looks like. We know what a clean space feels like. But cleaning up your mental space is much less obvious, much less explicit. No one is going to give you a round of applause for your clean mind — they don’t know what you’re thinking about! Cleaning up your mental space is much more abstract, more sensitive to what feels messy to you. It requires you to express, organize, categorize, prioritize, complete, and repeat. Over and over until you feel clear, satisfied, and unblocked. I wrote this tweet a few days ago and had someone ask me what I meant by ‘unblock your mind’: I reali

There is something soul-cleansing about cleaning. Something about ridding the dirt, disposing of the garbage, clearing the excess, cleansing what does not belong from your space. But unlike physical spaces, which while demanding, are quite viscerally satisfying when the cleaning is complete, cleaning up your inner world is challenging in that it is hard to detect when the task is done. We know what a clean space looks like. We know what a clean space feels like. But cleaning up your mental space is much less obvious, much less explicit. No one is going to give you a round of applause for your