Think back to the last time you were playing with your children, sitting on a Zoom call for work or watching a movie with your husband. What thoughts were running through your mind? How much did those noisy thoughts distract you from being present in that moment?

Those thoughts are mental clutter. Mental clutter is anything that keeps you from thinking straight. It includes things like incomplete projects, unmade decisions, future to-dos or past didn’t dos. These thoughts can take control of your attention in any given moment. Once they have your control, it can be hard to shift your focus back to what you were working on before the mental interruption.