As Courtney Carver says:
“If organizing your stuff would work, you’d be organized by now”.
And she is so right.
So, what is it then that keeps us from living that simple life, that life
with no clutter,
with no excess,
with less obligations?
Why is simplicity so hard to obtain?
It should be simple, no?
It really is all about your why in life:
why do you want to live with less?
why do you want your time back?
why do you want to feel light again?
why do you want to stop trying to have that picture-perfect life?
We feel something is making our lives feel heavy, exhausting,
but we can’t really put our finger on it.
The answer is in Less.
As I mentioned above:
to live with less you first have to define your why.
Why do you want to have more space, more time?
What is it that you want to make time for in your life?
What is it that you miss out on in your life
because you have no time,
because you have no room,
because you feel you have no energy left in your body to do the things that matter to you?
You’ll see that all your answers to those questions come down to one thing:
Love.
Love?
Yes, that is what it all comes down to.
Decluttering,
getting back to living a simple life,
answers all your questions about how to get back to love.
Simplifying your life is your way back to:
spending more time with the people you love,
having time again to do the things that you love,
being able to enjoy the things that you do, because you are not too exhausted, your schedule is not overloaded.
I invite you all to read my book Less is yes!
It’s a practical guide that will take you
to that life of less,
to that life of space,
to that life of lightness.
We start with the easy part: the material clutter in your house,
and then we work on cleansing our body,
to finally get to the part where you clean up the cobwebs in your head.
The book is your perfect guide to keep you going,
to help you out when you feel stuck during the process.
You will really turn your life around.
It’s a transformation into living a healthy, happy life.
This is a huge thing that we need to tackle day by day, step by step.
As we did not clutter our life in one day,
as we did not get into the physical shape we are in right now over the last year,
as we gathered experiences over the years, as we all got demoralized at some point in our life,
we cannot expect to clean up our life in one day.
We need to do it step by step and celebrate each victory, no matter how small!
Make sure you know why you want to do this.
I keep mentioning this because this is what will keep you on track
when things get tough.
Why do you want to feel energetic, light, free again?
Why do you want to sleep a sound sleep again?
Why do you want to have space again?
Why do you want to be more available again?
The answers to these questions is what will keep you going when you feel you would slide back into old habits.
You start this decluttering process because you feel everything is becoming too much, so you want less.
The decluttering process is not a competition in having as little as possible, no, it is a means to an end.
That end is:
feeling light again.
being able to breathe again.
seeing what is really important in life.
doing stuff that makes your heart sing.
It’s your way back to love!
I invite you all to take a good look at your life,
to take a good look at how you feel about:
what you own,
what you do,
what you think.
Does it make you feel good?
Do you have, do, think the things you have, do, think only because
you hope you will belong?
you hope people will love you for it?
you hope you’ll be important because of it?
Or just because it is what your heart says this is who you are?
Be very honest with yourself!
Because know that
you will NEVER please everyone,
you will NEVER have an opinion everybody agrees with,
you will NEVER belong everywhere.
Choose where your heart says you want to belong,
Choose the opinion your heart agrees with,
Do the things you feel are the right thing to do, not the popular thing.
Decluttering,
Getting back in good shape,
Thinking positive,
is so much more than ‘re-organizing’ your life.
It’s getting back your life,
It’s feeling LOVE again.
Thank you all for reading me!
You can already pre-order my book “Less is yes!” on
www.lannoo.be and www.standaardboekhandel.be
Thank you all for
choosing less!
choosing life!
choosing love!
Namaste
Katrien
www.lifecoachwomen.be