True decluttering begins with the mind.
I'm sure you wouldn't normally expect a photo of cake to begin this Blog post. This is Desperation Cake.
Here's my story, and here is how "Desperation Cake" happens.
I hit the wall hard yesterday.
It began earlier in the week; I wish I would have noticed. The first clue should have been my irritability. I was getting very irritable when my cat tried to sit on my lap again. When I had to, yet again, run out of the house for an appointment. I had been feeling tired and tired of the busyness. There were too many things happening all at once; it was all getting to be too much to manage well.
By Thursday, I attended a women's networking meeting that I had been very excited about. When I got there, I found myself feeling out of place and unable to strike up a conversation with anybody, and that usually isn't that difficult for me. I was just "off".
It all ended with a stop at a local Thai food place to get a take-out dessert, what I'm now calling Desperation Cake.
This is a thing. I have a history with it. Desperation Cake is what I do when all of my circuits are jamming and I'm feeling strung out.... Desperation Cake could just as easily have been an Amazon shopping spree, or a trip to my favorite store to get something to ease my discomfort. This was a sign that my thoughts and my schedule were in need of decluttering.
I wish I would have realized it before it happened so I could have saved myself the calories, but I rarely figure it out until after the fact. Here's the course of events: Rough networking event, Desperation Cake, get home and go straight to the couch, sleep, more unusual food choices, then an early night in bed.
I woke up this morning knowing that my usual routine needed to be interrupted by a trip to the beach for a long walk, and here is what I learned/remembered while in deep thought during my walk.
Two hours in nature = Two Days (at least) at my desk
That's what I truly needed.
This was the remedy, not the cake.
I'm not advocating for abandoning work and focusing solely on play. However, I am advocating for balance. This morning, the scales had tipped too far towards being
too busy and too noisy. I was starting to hear only noise and static, which is entirely unproductive. This picture captures my actual desk, where the clutter from my mind had become physical clutter on my desk.
My two hours in nature allowed me to feel refreshed and become productive in both business and life again.
Can we PLEASE just calm down?
Before grabbing Desperation Cake or clicking "buy now" , can we just settle down and go for a walk?
Two hours on a Friday morning is not going to derail any kind of progress being made in life or business. On the contrary, two hours of quiet time in order to rebalance is an extremely productive boost to overall productivity, not to mention the financial and health benefits of finding a good alternative to the self medicating that we have a tendency to do.
Here is a link for something I love to listen to on Spotify. It reminds me to slow down and stop the chatter. It also sets a good "calm down" vibe.
Now I can listen. Now I am able to see how to declutter my thoughts, declutter my desk, and declutter my home.
This is the true spirit behind
SadieLane Home Organizing.
You're worth it.
Reset & Reclaim
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