I say this as I type on a shattered phone with the most beautiful, no longer screaming, child asleep atop me. #dailygrind
I am not one for New Year's resolutions. I don't have diets awaiting me January 1st (healthy eating is sufficient!). However, I do like to think of goals for the coming year. Most often I try to consciously read more. But this year I have a larger, more active goal in mind: minimize.
To many of you have known me for the better part of my life this is likely a surprising statement. In the past, I was ready to shop till I drop without recourse. These days that is not the lifestyle for me, but I still live with its remnants.
Aside from myself, my household has two kids, two cats, and one adoring husband (I should count him as two for all his Orioles paraphernalia). We have a lot of crap. Seriously, crap. It is time to weed it out.
So many items maintain residence in our home with little reason or function for its presence. (Beauty for me is most certainly a function.) With 12 months in the coming year my goal is to tackle a room a month. We only have 7 rooms to set straight so maybe our storage areas will be lucky participants as well!
I have begun my smaller but no less important goal of reading daily with the book, Essentialism, by Greg McKeown. I can already recommend this book highly. His main tenant of "less but better" is applied with instruction to daily life. I look forward to applying much of what I read to a less but better 2016. Essentialism is available at my library so I'd bet you could find it at yours!
I wish you all a happy and safe New Years! 🎉Here is to a great fresh start for us all. Keep a look out, I may just have to shame post before pics as a motivator...
