Spring Blog

A few weeks ago, Han randomly hugged me and said, “I guess I’ll keep you.” She was referring to Marie Kondo’s KonMari method of cleaning and organizing. The gist of it goes – physically hold or touch things you want to clean/organize and ask yourself: does it spark joy? If it does, keep it. If it doesn’t, well, thank it and donate or get rid of it. Thankfully, it looks like I made the cut.

We’ve been in spring cleaning mode lately. I never realized how small our house was until we had a baby. His clothes, toys, diapers and everything else have slowly taken over every corner of the house. And the problem is, we can’t toss anything yet in case we have another baby. So we’re constantly adding and hardly able to subtract. Not a good combination. Which, sadly, means I have to toss the baggy jeans I’ve been holding on to in case they ever come back in style. I’ve found that this applies to other areas of life as well. I really wanted to be intentional about spending time with Tyler every day. But because we only have so many hours in a day, that meant carving time out of other things. I’ve been working hard on my “not to do list” and learning how to say “no.” This has proven to be a lot harder than it sounds. I’ve found it’s easy for me to say ‘Yes’ to things and difficult for me to turn things down. And before I know it, my schedule is completely full again. And much like my baggy jeans, I have to find things to toss out.

There’s an old adage that says “you can make more money but you can’t make more time.” I’ve found that our happiest clients have figured that out and they’ve become very good at being intentional about where they spend their time. So in the spirit of Marie Kondo – If it doesn’t bring you joy, you probably shouldn’t be wasting time on it.

Cheers!