My favorite weekend ritual

It's been a beautiful fall day here. Patches of sun shining through the trees, air cool enough to make your lungs tingle just a little bit, and leaves dancing in the breeze 🍂

I went on a long walk with my little fam this morning. Well actually, my husband and dog skateboarded and I trailed behind. It's become one of our weekend morning rituals, them skateboarding and weaving through the neighborhood while I walk alone at my own pace. It's nice, really. I love looking ahead and watching them have fun, but also getting some time to myself.

It had me thinking about how important rest and time alone is.

I think a lot of us equate decluttering and organizing as something that's all about doing. I guess a good part of it is. But there's another side of it that often gets overlooked. It's the side that I think actually makes the process overwhelming and tiring if we don't confront it.

Decluttering and organizing can take a lot of time, energy, decisions, and creativity. You will inevitably need to ask yourself questions like should I keep this? Do I need this? Where should I put it?

Well, I don't know, how do you want to live your life?

Do you know how you would answer?

I think giving ourselves permission to truly rest, recharge, and connect to ourselves without distractions is the key to uncovering these answers and one of the most productive things we can do. We can't really know what to keep, if we don't know what we want. We can't have our homes support us in our goals, if we don't know what they are.

Walking with myself on our family walks is one of my favorite things now.

It's my time to walk and be in nature without any distractions.

My time to reflect on where I am in life and where I want to go.

My time to simply be present and think about nothing at all.

My time to let my mind wander and let my heart tell me what it already knows.

It's in these simple moments, where the real magic happens. I eventually hear what I need to hear, and that motivates me to shape my environment so it can start to shape me.

All of a sudden, the clutter doesn't seem so hard to part with. It becomes a lot easier to make those decisions of what should take up space in my life.

What do you do to rest, recharge, and connect with yourself?