Live The Life You Want To Live

January 16, 2014April 20, 2017

Tip #16 – What is standing between YOU and the life you WANT to be LIVING?

What clutter do you need to get rid of, so that you can live the life you desire to live? What things are you holding onto, that are holding you back? Be purposeful in everything in you own!

Kristin’s Action Plan: There were many craft projects that I wanted to accomplish. I knew I never would. Looking at them, made me stressed because I was constantly reminded of what I wasn’t doing. When I donated them, I felt so much relief – sounds odd, but it was the best choice! I hadn’t spent oodles of money on them, thankfully, but it was still a little hard. Although, I have not looked back and today, I am dedicating my time to the things that I want to, instead of being reminded of what I am not doing.

A Life With Limits

When you think of the word “limit”, what do you think of? Doing without something? Going as far or as fast as you can without breaking the limit? Do you view limits as something TO break? Limiting in our culture is often seen as a negative thing. We consume ourselves with getting the latest and…

Organizing Small Spaces and Places

A question I get asked often: HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE SMALL SPACES OR IF YOU LIVE IN A SMALL PLACE? I have to say that there are much smaller spaces to live in than what we do. By all means, our 1,000 square foot house is not small – apartments and some houses are much…

When Your Life Doesn’t Feel Social Media Worthy

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, blogs. Vacations, kids, houses, cars, everyday life. I like to follow it all too. The older I get, the more I realize that we are built for community, authenticity, and relationships. All things we often desire, but when we look around us, we just don’t feel worthy. We don’t feel honest enough….

A Life of Upgrades and Updates

I want to break my own mold and start picking up my Bible more and my phone less. I want to break my own mold and just sit and be, instead of going and doing. I want to break my own mold and not think about what else we need, but what else we can get rid of or give away.

5 Ways To Prevent Impulse Buying

How many times do you come home from the grocery store, wondering why the bill is so high? Or maybe you come back from a shopping trip and wonder how all of those items got into your bags? Do you ever second-guess or question? How much time do you spend looking at your receipts, asking…

The How To’s On Moving

Today we are busy packing away our belongings again! Dan put it well today ‘I wish we could just say “boom” and all of our stuff would be in Minnesota.’” I couldn’t agree more! We picked up a 20 foot U-Haul and car trailer (we will be towing our Intrepid) and it is sitting patiently,…

5 Comments

Jennifer - The Deliberate Mom says:

January 16, 2014 at 7:49 pm

Fabulous idea to purge those craft supplies! Seeing them can be a huge disappointment.

I need to try to let go of "sentimental things". There are many things I just can't let go of because of who gave them to me, etc. However, the majority of them are in boxes I never open up and look in. It's the toughest area for me to organize.

Wishing you a lovely day.
xoxo

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MorganizewithMe says:

January 17, 2014 at 8:49 am

I love what you shared here. I too just decided to dump some craft / scrapbooking projects and I feel so much better. It is OK to change our minds and take things off of the "To Do List!"

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1. Kristin says:
  
  January 17, 2014 at 8:18 pm
  
  Thank you! Ah, doesn't it just feel so good to clear out?! I like what you said that it IS okay to change our minds – it just helps us get closer to the people we want to be! Thanks for the comment!
  
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Tattered Treasures - Danelle says:

January 18, 2014 at 1:17 am

I completely relate. We have a shop… You tend to hold onto things that you MAY be able to use. One day we decided to clean house and it felt great. We threw away things that we NEVER would use… UN-cluttering our lives!

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1. Dan and Kristin says:
  
  January 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm
  
  I bet having a shop makes it that much more difficult to keep the clutter OUT! I love hearing personal decluttering stories because we all (I feel) have some decluttering to do – the type of level might be different, but you are so right UN-cluttering our lives! Thanks for sharing!
  
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