How to Shut Out the Flufferclutter

As a writer, I seek out ideas and new material all the time. Correction: I find content as I go along. Thankfully, we live in a world where there is a constant barrage of things to write about. Any blockage I may have (or that anyone may have) is, in my opinion, self-created.

This fact does not diminish the challenges of "writer's block" or artist's block or whatever block you might be experiencing. It simply changes the way we look at it and, inherently, the way in which we approach overcoming or working through it.

As I've mentioned in previous writings, I am my own worst critic and spend an awful lot of time distracting or derailing myself. But I seem to spend, at certain points in time, equally as much energy shutting out the flufferclutter. What is flufferclutter, you might ask? It is all the meaningless $hit you let bleed into your life. It is all of the other peoples' problems you let affect your primary objectives, your goals, your dreams.

I get so angry at myself sometimes because I realize that I am letting other peoples' issues dictate my mood, my motivation, and my success. Some people are very good at not letting the flufferclutter in to begin with. I am not one of these people. It seeps in, creeps in, or sometimes very loudly takes control. Then, it is up to me to decide whether or not I allow it to continue, to permeate, or to influence my overall routine, behavior, and accomplishments.

This is not to say the clutter itself is meaningless. Quite often, the issues involved in flufferclutter are important, have gravitas, and are involving people important in your life, like family. In my way of thinking, there is a certain amount of participation and absorption that is appropriate and, at times, even necessary.

But the problem is that flufferclutter, like a smelly room you adjust to, can easily take over. Think of it - even when you exit a smelly room, your clothes still reek of it. YOU smell of it, until you take a shower and do the laundry. The smell becomes yours.

My advice...take a deep whiff, then a shower and wash it off. Change clothes and be free to create and inhale a fragrance of all your own.