De-clutter your brain

However, there's more to de-junking your life than just the dirty work of tidying up. The decision to clean up -- whether it's your home, your career, your relationships or even your body -- is as much a mental and emotional action as a physical one. The "mental clutter" in your head like unrealistic expectations, guilt, seemingly impossible-to-overcome obstacles, fear, stress and poor time management skills can hold you back from living well.

So what you can do to clean up the internal clutter? In his latest book, Enough Already! Clearing the Mental Clutter to Become the Best You expert cleaning guru Peter Walsh tackles this very subject. Walsh offers these tips to help get you on the right track.

Create a vision

If you don't know where you're going, it will be harder to figure out how to get there. Visualizing your goals isn't about holding onto idealized (and impossible) versions of your life. Instead, it's about clarifying your priorities so you can plan your time and actions accordingly. Each chapter of Walsh's book -- relationships, money, work, family and health -- starts with an activity asking you to define your vision of how you'd like these things to be.

For example, when it comes to your health and your body you don't have to meet anyone's ideals about being thin and trim. Instead, ask yourself how you feel about your health right now, and what you want and expect from your body as you age. If you want to be active and healthy into your 80s (and beyond), what do you need to do now to ensure that future?

Overcome obstacles

What's stopping you from reaching your vision? It's time to start getting rid of obstacles that are standing in your way. These obstacles can be physical or emotion barriers that prevent us from succeeding. Ask yourself: what is getting in the way of your ideal situation?