Marie Kondo is a decluttering expert who came to popularity when her Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. She has gone on to create other shows and specials. She has authored multiple books including The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
I’ve come up with a theory on how to find balance in life that I call “The Baby Bear Theory.” It’s the idea that we sometimes have to go the extreme ends of the spectrum, aka black and white thinking, to know what we don’t want. Then we can work toward settling in the middle or at the “just right” point.
In theory it’s much easier to wait to see what other people do, or to see what they think you should do, than to take action on your own decisions. In reality it makes life hard. If you’re wondering who does this, check in with yourself. Have you ever waited on someone else’s actions or words so that you…
When we talk about decluttering, we’re really talking about decluttering and organizing. Decluttering is removing the excess, organizing is putting the remainder back systematically. If you’re decluttering and reorganizing your whole home or even a whole room, places like Amazon, Target, and The Container Store have a ton of beautiful organization solutions. The problem can be…
Selfcare is about caring for yourself. We focus on selfcare being things like taking a bath, getting your nails done, getting a massage, reading a book, or whatever you enjoy. But what about when you’re sick? When COVID hit, many people were willing to wear a mask because they didn’t want to accidentally cause someone else to become ill.
When a new baby is about to enter your life, a lot changes, and those changes begin before she or he ever arrives. One of those changes is to your home. Making space for a whole new human being means decluttering must happen. Not just moving things to another area like the basement. You need to remove an entire room’s worth of stuff out of your home.
