โœจ My Kon Mari Journey โœจ

๐Ÿ’ MINDFULNESS SERIES ๐Ÿ’

Kon Mari Style

Life is like a box of chocolates… some pieces you don’t really want.

Day 1 ๐Ÿ‘’ Day 2 ๐Ÿ“– Day 3 ๐Ÿ“ƒ Day 4 ๐Ÿ’ป Day 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ Day 6 ๐Ÿ”‡ Day 7 ๐ŸŒ Day 8 ๐Ÿฆœ

I really don’t care for cleaning up, I know I’m a woman and a mother, yet still cleaning up as much as teenage boy.

Konmari first step is to evaluate the life you have want.

Well what would I want my life to be like? If only I was in charge of those things.
That would be nice! I live in a state with a beach. It would be great to get outside more while the kids are little. It’s not all about me though, with more time I could:
I could really organize our lesson plans better at our school, find out more about Charlotte Mason, move our school outside, do some scouting kind of stuff on a regular basis.
It took about 10 weeks to finish while working about 1 day a week for 1-3 hours per work day, at the end things weren’t “Pinterest perfect,” but they were great and different.
I made the family rule “1. Be the Captain,” referring to the Invictus poem, our school poem.

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,
ย ย ย ย ย ย Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
ย ย ย ย ย ย For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
ย ย ย ย ย ย I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
ย ย ย ย ย ย My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
ย ย ย ย ย ย Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
ย ย ย ย ย ย Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
ย ย ย ย ย ย How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
ย ย ย ย ย ย I am the captain of my soul.

– William Ernest Henley

Or other family rules are 2. “Protect What Matters” and 3. “Beat Koko.”

Protect what matter is from:

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is Koko?

A gorilla who could communicate better than my whole family… yet we are trying to up our game to beat Koko at communicating clearly. Koko being dead should help us beat her… RIP Koko. ๐Ÿ’€

These kind of high level thinking tasks simply can not be done by me, at the same time I’m cleaning up too many stupid toys, getting rid of the less beloved toys has saved me over an hour a day to pursue exercise, writing, cooking and sanity. #momlivesmatter = Kids pick up your own toys. But mom I can’t, there are too many! Not anymore. You are a monster! Yes. ๐Ÿงธ

CLEANING LESS GAVE ME ENERGY TO START NEW THINGS

Other than making 3 family rules for our family, which I’ve been wanting to do for at least 3 years already… but struggled to do, I’ve been doing a lot of other projects that I wasn’t doing before. I think the lack of too much visual clutter is super energizing for the creative part of my brain, but however it works, it really works for me.

Cleaned my Google links and switched to a rotating nature wallpaper that is most often stunning:

Did you know you can make your own Google Home Page, to navigate where you want you to go most often?

Made a Google Website for Free:

I like having some options that WordPress doesn’t offer.

Welcome to my gym, it’s a bit “bananas”:

Recorded a no budget workout series in a banana costume.