Now THAT'S organized....
Ah, spring. A time to pause and take stock, organize and do some deep cleaning. An opportunity to purge, cull, and rid yourself of unworn clothes, unused items, and other things that are cluttering your space. It feels great, doesn’t it?
While taking a load of donations down to Goodwill the other day, I got to thinking about the concept of spring cleaning. We get to decide what is no longer serving us, and make a conscious choice to expel it from our home environment. Making the selection to discard something necessarily means that we are also making another set of decisions, namely, what to keep. If something makes the cut and we choose to keep it after a round of spring cleaning, then logic would tell us that we must value that item in some way. By eschewing that which we do not wish to hold on to, we are highlighting that which we do want. The act of mindful valuing is called having gratitude. Perhaps by creating that moment in which we consider what we’re holding onto, we are reminded of its importance. I wonder, then, if spring “keeping” can also extend beyond the items in our closets to our values, perceptions, and behaviors?
While taking a load of donations down to Goodwill the other day, I got to thinking about the concept of spring cleaning. We get to decide what is no longer serving us, and make a conscious choice to expel it from our home environment. Making the selection to discard something necessarily means that we are also making another set of decisions, namely, what to keep. If something makes the cut and we choose to keep it after a round of spring cleaning, then logic would tell us that we must value that item in some way. By eschewing that which we do not wish to hold on to, we are highlighting that which we do want. The act of mindful valuing is called having gratitude. Perhaps by creating that moment in which we consider what we’re holding onto, we are reminded of its importance. I wonder, then, if spring “keeping” can also extend beyond the items in our closets to our values, perceptions, and behaviors?
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