How Do I Organize Life When I've Tried Everything?
To organize life you need more than a bunch of tips and techniques. You need to take a different approach, from the Inside Out.
Sure, it's important to know how to declutter, clean, and simplify your home, your family, and even your closets. But to make lasting change, it's more important to ask yourself "why do I want to be organized?"
For most people, the purpose is to simplify things so you can live your life more fully!
My intention is to help you accomplish this in 3 steps, from the Inside Out:
- Create intentions for the spaces in which you live and work.
- Learn a simple way to release your resistance, procrastination, and fears about getting organized with the ZPoint Process for Personal Peace.
- Get tips to clean, declutter, and simplify each space in your home
Then you'll be on the way to living the life of your dreams in a place you can truly call home!
How I developed this 3-step approach:
My approach was learned from my own experiences as well as from my experiences as a volunteer in some very poor areas of Costa Rica.
Families there welcomed me into their humble homes with pride, love, and a desire to share their wisdom with me. Some of the families lived in rusty, tin shacks, with little food, limited storage, and few personal possessions.
What I wasn’t expecting to see was how much they truly enjoy their lives, even without a bunch of "things". They lead happy and full lives, in part because their home environment is generally clean and simple.
So what’s their secret?
Pura Vida = "Pure Life"
 This commonly-used expression in Costa Rica sums up why they all seem to be so happy. Pura Vida describes an overall state of acceptance, gratefulness, tranquility, and sincerity, which allows them to experience more “pure life”. And the recipe seems painfully simple...
They know their priorities--what is important in life and what they intend to create and experience--and then they organize their lives around those intentions!
As one of my good Costa Rican friends told me once...
"Americans live to WORK, while we work to LIVE".
Feel the difference?
Now fast forward to the typical American household.
- Large houses packed with furniture, clothes, gadgets, gizmos, and toys.
- Rarely find “real” food, but there is an abundance of packaged, preserved, fast and easy meals so you can eat something on the run, quickly, often alone.
- Parents too stressed from their jobs to relax with their families because they are thinking of all the things they have to do tomorrow.
- Oh, and don’t forget that you need to sort out that garage this weekend...
Sound like two completely different worlds? Well, they are. After experiencing both worlds myself, I can now take a step back and help you to re-evaluate what it really means to be organized, from the inside out, and how you can do it in the comfort of your own (soon-to-be-organized) home :-D
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