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Curating Your Life (Stuff)

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I posed the question in my last post about changing your perspective about decluttering. Instead of making decisions to let things go, what if you made choices based on keeping items that would support the life you want?

This could be equally challenging, yet I propose that by changing perspective from loss to gain, decision-making becomes easier and a more positive experience. What if you started curating your things for the life you currently have or desire versus the past?

So, schedule your next decluttering session with the intention of making positive choices for yourself. That’s my goal for this week. I’ll let you know how it went. Will you share your experience with me as well?

Perspective on Decluttering

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Decluttering can be tough. Keeping in mind the reason for decluttering can be helpful and, yet, one may still struggle with letting go of things.

Reasons for not letting go include:

  • “Just in case”
  • Status symbol
  • Security
  • Inherited “clutteritis”
  • A belief that more is better
  • Using clutter to suppress emotions
  • Territorialism
  • Identity

Do any of these sound like the reasons you have clutter? You may even have other reasons for keeping clutter around you. What if we changed our perspective and decided to keep ONLY what currently serves the life you want for yourself?

Living the Word with Purpose

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As a reminder, I selected purpose as my 2019 word. And I thought, as we close the chapter on another month, that I would check in on where I am with my purposeful focus in 2019.

Just like everyone, life can get in the way of my intentions (recall VIGOR©). I shared in June that I had planned to return to my journaling and while I have not done it daily, I have increased my journaling since then and especially in September. I have also recommitted to daily meditation. The goal is that these two activities will help me be aware of my purpose daily which will enable me to make choices more in line with my purpose.

Reset. Check.

Living with Relationships

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As previously mention, besides “R” standing for routine, I realized that there was a R2 and R3. I posted about resilience last week and today I wanted to talk about R3 which is relationships.

Relationships are about the conversations we have, connecting with people and being in the moment.

It’s also about the relationship you have with yourself. It’s about being gentle with yourself just as you would be with a friend or family member.

Do you take time to nature or develop your relationships? What relationships are important to you? Take a minute to evaluate the priority these take in your life and if you do not life your answers, make a plan to make a change.

Living with Resilience

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When I first came up with the VIGOR© approach, I selected routine as a focus. But as I further looked at this concept, I realized that “R helped frame two other components. One was resilience and the other was relationships.

Resilience is about how well you bounce back or are you willing and able to refill your glass when it keeps getting drained. And it is also about how you can access activation or in other words can you access your motivation and energy.

Focusing on resilience and relationship is about living optimistically, with pleasure and zest.

So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how resilient are you? And based on your answer, are there things you can do to help refill the glass.

I will post about relationships next.