You’re writing your next chapter because:

• your children are out on their own.
• you’re finally starting that new business you’ve had in mind…
• or it’s growing so fast it’s hard to keep up.
• maybe just discovered you have ADD, or some other brain-based challenged. It’s a relief to finally know, but now what?
• you’re suddenly single – widowed, separated, divorced.
• you’re downsizing or simply want less stuff around you and less on your calendar. Life’s too short.

As you move through this chapter of your life, your mindset is shifting.

You’re thinking differently about your things, your surroundings, and how you use your time.

If I walked into your home today, and simply looked around at your things, what picture would I draw of who lives there? What hobbies, interests, style, personality would I discover? Is that who you are today? Who you are becoming? If not, time to reorganize.

If I walked into your home office, what would I see? Is this a reflection of you, truly? Is it a reflection of your business, your brand, how you mentally come to work each day? If not, time to reorganize.

A Place to Start

Reflection questions:

What’s important to you now?

What do you value?

What frustrates you? Why? And then ask why again. Keep asking “Why?” until you get to an answer from  your heart, from your core. Which of your values isn’t being attended to?

How do you want it to look? To feel? Or what energy do you want in this space? (If this is too hard to answer right now, try this question instead: what space in your home or home office DOES feel/look the way you want it to? Why? )

What are the most important pieces of your history ( if you believe we are the sum of our experiences)?

That last question is the one which resonated with me when I went through several life changes over a 2 year period.

As an aside, I’ve always been curious about which way is ‘better’ to get through transitions. Get them done all at once? Short time frame but high intensity for stress. Or change over time. Lower stress, but it lasts longer!

So what picture would you have seen in my home during those 2 years of changes? An old one. What I discovered, for me,  was that I had to get through the emotional changes and processing first. Then, almost by accident, awhile later, I looked around and realized I had too many things from the last chapter in my life… and not as much from this new one. I saw my surroundings more clearly, more objectively. 

So I got to work, with help from friends, to reorganize. To have my surroundings reflect and be in sync with who I was becoming. And that felt great, liberating… moving out of transition limbo TO something new and fresh. I wasn’t ignoring my past, just bringing the best with me into my new future.

Remember, regroup, reorganize. The new version of the “three R.’s”