Keep it Simple, Sweetheart

Maia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:39:41 +0000

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.

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Keep it Simple, Sweetheart