Kondo the condo (Week 24)
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony." Please excuse me if I follow in the footsteps of the realdonaldtrump and quote Albert Einstein. Truth is, everyone could stand to heed Einstein's words about simplifying your life. It was one of the cardinal rules that allowed him to free his brain for more weighty matters. Maybe we could express it this way: einstein = minimizing clutter². For me, this week was about reducing clutter and simplifying the Marie Kondo way. The key to the technique is a simple 3-letter word: joy. There's a lot of good stuff coming out of Japan these days (maybe you saw my recent post on forest bathing ). Well, another hot one is Marie Kondo, star of the wildly popular Netflix Show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. I'll spare you a few hundred hours of reality show viewing and boil it down to a sentence. Walk around your home room by room, pick up items one at a time and ask yourself if they give you joy. Yup, it'...