Last week I moved my house and office, and despite some meticulous packing, unpacking became a Tetris game to fill new shelves and drawers with the same old stuff.
Guess what? By shaking up my possessions and requiring myself to sort through them and reorganize them into some new spaces, I not only found more to clear out, but I created some new energy in the process. The same old stuff transformed into some entirely new patterns for my life and my work.
Try it. Shake out the contents of your desk drawer and take 30 min this week to rearrange and resort it. What can you get rid of? What new possibilities can you create for how you interact with your stuff? Can you find any hidden transformations waiting for you to discover them?
Now try it somewhere else in your life. Shake up something less tangible into pieces and reassemble it to see what new structure you can create. Can shaking up your calendar introduce you to a new way of managing email? Can shaking up your morning or evening routine create new space for exercise? What if you take a different commute route? Could you get more reading done on the bus than in your car?
Can you build something more productive from the stuff of your regular life? More useful? More beautiful?
We have good reasons for the habits we create with our stuff, but that doesn’t mean that better reasons aren’t waiting for us to find them.
“Energy flows where attention goes.” ~ Anonymous
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