Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

Clutter is the barbedwire boundary between me and all I can achieve. It’s as hard to take down as it is to live behind. But what makes media driven mental clutter more lethal than the rest is the repetitive pounding down of every ambition and aspiration.

In the parable of the sower, the path is hard packed and unable to accept anything that grows. Once upon a time, that path was just a field of dirt somewhere that became the shortest distance between destinations, a well travelled walkway, and a high traffic area.

Our modern zeal for information makes social media one of the quickest shortcuts to intellectual gratification, mental stimulation, and emotional titillation. And the more I scroll, the harder the soil in my heart and head becomes. If I continue to collect images and information without properly processing them, before long, I know more about everything and am less able to do anything about it. I risk letting the information highway run a rut right through the middle of my mind. A hardpacked path that won’t be receptive to anything but the repetitive pounding of a virtual substitute for reality running through the back roads of my imagination.

I need to declutter my social media assortment and let the rains of real life soften up the soil again. And then I need to put a fence up around my time–with a small gate only I can open to the odd online escapade with information.