Decluttering: Choosing What Consumes Our Minds, Lives and Homes

First let me apologize for being a week behind. But I am glad to be back and am ready to de-clutter.

We are going to start by taking a survey of what consumes our thoughts, lives and homes. I encourage you to write down your answers or save them on your computer. You will need to look back at them throughout the week. What is filling our minds, lives and homes can strengthen us or cause us a lot of stress. I want to help you find strength instead of mess and stress.

Let's began our survey:

1. What music do you listen to the most? (classical, country, rap, rock, soothing, praise and worship) How much time a day do you listen to it?
2. What do you watch ? (news, comedy, dramas, reality, horror, sci-fi, home channels, educational, sports, youtube, porn)How much time a week do you watch TV, movies, or something on the computer?
3. What do you read? (bible, devotionals, romance, thrillers, drama, true stories, fiction, non-fiction, religious) How much time do you spend reading of each?
4. What type of friends give you the most advice? (non-christian, christian, an active follower of Christ)
5. How much time do you sit and be quiet and listen for God?
6. How much time do you spend at home between 7 am and 10 pm?
7. How much time do you spend driving in the car?
8. How much sleep do you average a night?
9. How many activities besides work and school are you and/or your family members involved in? How many hours does it involve a week? (be accurate it and add it up.)
10. What are your priorities in the week? (extra activities, family, work, school, home, church, etc)
11. If you answered church to number ten, why is it a priority and what are you doing while there?
12. How much time do you exercise in a week?
13. How many sit down family meals do you eat a week?
14. How much time do you take for yourself a week?
15. How much time do you spend picking out clothes? (OK that one was just to be funny)
16. What is on the floors in your house?
17. Where is your laundry?
18. Where do you keep all the movies and video games?
19. How many dirty dishes are in your sink right now?
20. Do you know where the remote is?
21. Can you open a closet door without something falling on you?
22. Where in your house has the most clutter? (bedroom, living room, kitchen, garage)
23. When is the last time you went through things and got rid of things you have not used the past year?
24. What place to you hate to be in your house because of stuff?
25. Do you buy things because you like them or need them? Do you justify why you need them?

I hope you were honest so we can look at these things the next few days. I would love to know some of your answers to help me be more specific the rest of the week. You can anonymously put your answers on comments at the end of the blog. Make sure you answer all questions and are specific. We will began de-cluttering tomorrow.