Tracing back, I’m not exactly sure what happened. I know that it started just like today. I was brainstorming a new blog post, only meanwhile, I was looking at my cluttered home.
I wanted to write something useful. Since my home was a mess, why not start there? After spending some time researching how to declutter my home, because research is much easier than doing the actual work, I found myself going from one thing to another. If you give a mouse a cookie, right?
My obsessive research took me from closet organization, to virtual closet apps, to style apps, to style guides, to capsule wardrobes; from home filing systems, to paper organizers, to actually taking a semester-long online class at my community college on personal financing, to stocks and interest rates, to purchasing items with cash, to tiny houses, to global poverty, and so forth, and so on…
All the while my eyes grew wider. And friends, this occurred over a period of months, until everything kind of wound down and I was left with an ever-growing interest in…
Minimalism.
(Tada?)
As I began taking a hard look at my life, I started really weighing my lifestyle and felt inspired to bare down and focus on what really matters.
A while back, overwhelmed by life and work, I started saying no to opportunities. I felt like I needed to say no and regain some space for myself, and quite frankly, adequate sleep. But now, I feel like I have learned to say “yes” again. And saying yes is so much more fun!
Yes to people. Yes to life. Yes to friendships. Yes to adventures. Yes to learning something new. Yes to not being perfect. Yes to forgiving. Yes to love. Yes. One-hundred times, yes.
Since these initial changes, I have been doing things that I just didn’t think that I had time for before. I have taken a couple of online classes, met up with friends on a regular basis, thrown a baby shower, freelanced for a school board campaign and even done some work in Hollywood.
In closing... I'm back. And glad to be. I hope to share some of the things that have been inspiring me.
It’s cliché, but really, life IS short, guys.
And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun. Ecclesiastes 7:10
Gosh, I love this. Thanks for sharing! I wonder looking back now, what you would say of this post, you know post baby and all. YES!
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