As I sit here listening to this, burning this candle, drinking a huge jar filled with water I’m watching it sort of rain/snow outside. And I’m wishing I could be bundled up walking around in a forest with Agatha. For some reason in this visual she’s walking beside me and we’re chatting about what we’re going to cook when we get home. We’re collecting bits and pieces from the outside world to bring into our inside world.
Our inside world is small and clean. It’s clear and free of clutter and piles of things. We have black and white tiled floors in our kitchen and lots of clear glasses filled with delicious things to bake with. We have a big ceramic jar on the stove with all sorts of wooden kitchen utensils in it and pots hanging from the walls.
It has white floors and walls, colourful rugs, cozy sweaters hung up and just enough life in it that you feel at home the second you walk in.
I’m in the midst of de-cluttering and letting physical things g o in our home . It’s not easy and it definitely isn’t something Jeff wants to do but I have this overwhelming desire to just get rid of so much. Things that don’t serve us, or maybe even things that do serve us. But for the past 9 years I haven’t had a dishwasher and for someone that drinks as much water and tea as I do, I go through an unnecessary amount of glasses. I finally stopped myself and asked, why I can’t I just have one glass? (Ok, maybe two). But I normally find myself with 3 or 4 different drinking vessels at any given time. It’s so crazy!
As I think about moving spaces, I think about what I want to bring with me on this next adventure, and what I am ready to leave behind. Physical things like shoes I haven’t worn, clothes that have sat in a closet for a year, but also mental things – photographs, letters, sentimental things that I’ve held onto for so long. Those things have an energy about them that takes up s p a c e. So in letting some of those things go, I am hoping to feel a little lighter, a little more able to get up and go, and finally allow myself to have a fresh start.
It takes a level of self love, of dedication and determination to live your greatest life.
So, look within.
Look at every area of your life and ask yourself these questions:
Am I on course?
Am I growing mentally, emotionally and spiritually?
Anything that is blocking that, anything that is preventing you from living your greatest life, make the tough decision to let it go.
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I am in a similar process! (Except we’re not moving) 😀 We’ve decided to give away a whole lot of things to charity, nice stuff, even, stuff I kind of sort sometimes use. Things that we need, I just wish we had a nicer/prettier version of it, and so it don’t use it that often. Things that take up space and claim necessity, when honestly, when it all comes down to the essentials, I don’t need it at all. I too crave the whitespace 🙂 <3
That’s an even better idea K! I love the idea as we grow up (get the chance/can afford) we bring in the things that we truly want into our homes and spaces as opposed to things that we will just settle with. It makes our homes feel that much more ‘ours’.