It is now 2:41 a.m. and I’m in my home office determined to finish my remodeling project as part of my spring killing. For months I’ve planned to refurbished/repaint 4 bar stools, 2 end tables, 1 bar table, and a long converted hall table among some other things. I got all the paint I need that’s in my color scheme, my sander, paint brushes, and got to task these pass couple of weeks, fitting in my project here and there.
I began to feel overwhelmed, in conjunction I had new office furniture I was putting together and organizing/restructuring other systems in my home-based office. I could not shake off the feeling of being overwhelmed and wondering where I was even going to put all this stuff once done painting. I ran over the design over in my head over and over, but it felt like it would just be too much.
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Now, I do not like crowded spaces at all, I love to scale my things up, but having stuff all around sends me mad mentally. So, tonight it finally hit me! I have to much stuff, stuff I’ve been trying to save and repurpose. Tables I’ve literally have had for 20 years…. it’s time to let it go. Let the truth be told I shoulda been let these things go, but I have history with them, they sorta tell a story, but in all honestly it is costing me more in labor and money to keep these things.
What’s ironic is I’ve ordered beautifully updated new and glamorous office furniture that I really like, but the old was clashing being it’s half-way rotted, chipped, wobbly, etc. For some reason on a subconscious level I was feeling guilty for daring to discard the furniture. Look, it’s bulky, old, coming apart and just not me anymore. The furniture served its purpose, and I’ve kept it beyond its time.
In the midst of my ah-ha moment one-by-one I began moving item after item downstairs around 2 a.m. to be ready to take to the dumpster in the morning. As I began to pick up each item and part with it ever having habitation in my home, I began to feel free, open, lifted, able to breathe fresh decluttered air! As I write this I have a burst of energy, excited, and zeal because I can see me now tackling assignments in my home-based office. See my environment/workspace means the world to me. It’s a must! I call it business-class feng shui!
I can go on and on about my intense revelation, but let me tell you what it has to do with business. March 20th 2022 marked the official day of spring which resembles/coincides with birthing, newness, clean, fresh, etc. They don’t call it “spring cleaning” for no reason. As I am cleaning my office ridding the old and implementing the new, I too am doing this in my business, be-it with style, business partnerships, work relationships, systems, formats, I have scrubbed it all, scaling it to a new level of operation.
As a business coach I’m a champion of people, a natural born exhorter of others, literally a walking, talking, daily coach. I cannot help, but to believe in people and believe that they can and will win, but at some point that some to an end and I must champion for myself.
As I and you spring forward we must be okay with clearing out anything operation wise in business that does not serve us. We must be okay with parting with individuals we’ve outgrown. We must be okay with putting our business and selves first and shutting doors for good! One thing about me when I walk away and make peace with departing it’s a wrap, and I’m okay with it. In business you must learn to have mini silent funerals to old ways, habits, people, thoughts, situation, etc. Death is beautiful when you know the transition yields life.
I challenge each of you to look around your homes, home-based office, cluttered closets, friends list, subscriptions on YouTube, bills, and see what you can have mini funerals for. What can you depart with? Pull those things out and be okay with ushering the new! To declutter your workspace is to declutter your mind causing an avalanche of by default of organization, mental clarity, free flowing ideas, and emotional intelligence. Right now I am so stoked I am going to have to force myself to go to bed, but I cannot wait to wake up and finish my tasks in my office in the morning!
Tell me, do you see a correlation of your mental health and unorganized workspace? Do you feel weighted down, having considered the very furniture, file holders, old stuff are causing emotional heaviness limiting your ability to get work done? Let me know in the comment section, and thanks for reading today’s blog.
Kimberly! You Are A Life Saver! I need to track down your Home Based Business Ebook! Please direct me! Your blog is LOVELY! Enjoying all of your content on every platform