Keep it Simple, Sweetheart
Good health isn’t only about what kind of food we put in our bodies. You can be nourishing your body with lots of healthy food, but if other areas of your life are out of whack, you’re not going to be as healthy as you could be.
Simplify Your Life
How many times have you made this resolution: this year I’m going to get healthy? Oftentimes, a close second is: I’m going to get organized! Getting “organized” is a pretty tall order—and it may not really be want you want. You may simply want to simplify your life. Sure, you can go through the process to organize all your stuff…or you can streamline and simplify your life. Less is more, as they say, and the less stuff you have the more easily you’ll be able to manage it.
Healthy Solution
People tell me all the time that I’m organized. It’s true; I do have somewhat of a natural penchant for organization. I can file and color-code and alphabetize with the best of ’em. But my true goal is just to make things simple. Here’s my favorite personal anecdote about learning to keep it simple… When making my bed, I would always make certain the tag on the comforter always ended up in the bottom right corner of the bed. Same with the throw pillows—tags neatly on the backside and in the bottom right corner. True, this accounted for mere seconds of my day, but it was still something I thought about and spent energy on. I don’t know what came over me one day, but I had a mad desire to just not worry about those ridiculous tags—and so I cut them off. It may be a little silly, but frankly, it is a much more joyful experience making the bed these days. The moral of the story? Before you take on the huge project of organizing your life, start by finding one or two easy ways just to make things simple.
Tags: Get Organized, good health, keep it simple, simplify your life
Category: Get Organized
April 29th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
How true, as life seems to get faster and faster we need to learn to slow down and “just make things simple.” Thanks for the reminder!
May 26th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Keeping it simple!!! Simpler said than done!! I heard this from a friend – Sometimes it takes someone on the outside to get us organised-that we aren’t able to get out of our own way!!. An interesting observation. But I am starting to think there is a lot of truth there. I have a raised out-of-kids reach kitchen counter which is the place for all things to land. And no matter how much I move things around and say to myself, I want this to stay clear and tidy, a few days later it is piled high with stuff again. I need to find a place for it all to permanently live. Easier said than done!!
I love when the stuff surrounding life gets simpler.