Keep Your Bedroom Blissful

Several years ago, back when my husband and I were still just a couple with no kids, I looked around our then tiny master bedroom and realized there was a problem. I had piles of clothes everywhere! From that moment on I made a concerted effort to put my clothes where they belonged every night before I went to bed, no matter how tired I was. I still do that to this day.

Taking tiny steps like that leads to more happiness. I want my bedroom to be a place of retreat when I go to sleep at night and I want it to be a welcoming haven when I wake up in the morning. I love coming to my bedroom after a stressful day and seeing how clean it is. I can't imagine I would want to spend time in there if there were stacks of books or magazines piled everywhere, kids toys tripping me when I walked, or shoes and clothes strewn about. My days as a stay-at-home mom of four are hectic enough without adding extra stress to them.

Imagine you have a busy ahead of you, you wake up as the sun is streaming in through the windows, and slowly open your eyes. What do you see? Do you see a clean floor, dressers with everything in their place, and clutter-free nightstands? Or do you see shoes and other items of clothing causing a hazard on your walk space, piles of junk everywhere, a treadmill that's become a clothes rack gathering dust in the corner, and dressers with shirts spilling out of them? If your vision was the latter tell me something: You have a busy day ahead right? Well, you've just made your day exponentially more stressful by waking up in the war zone that is supposed to be your bedroom!

De-Clutter expert Peter Walsh (my anti-junk hero) once said this in an interview on the Oprah show, "[Stuff] robs people of so much," he says. "If your house is full of stuff, all the blessings that could fill your house can't get in. The stuff takes over. It robs you psychologically. You can't be at peace."

Strive today to be more at peace. Take the time to make your bedroom be the retreat it was meant to be. Get all that stuff out that was never meant to be in there and take back your sanity, one tiny piece at a time.