… WHEN SOMEONE EXPRESSES THEMSELVES SO REAL THAT IT GIVES YOU PERMISSION TO BE AND FEEL AND SEE AND THINK WHAT YOU BE AND FEEL AND SEE AND THINK. TO SEE RULES AND RESTRICTIONS BROKEN THAT YOU DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE YOU WERE UNKNOWINGLY ABIDING.

CATEGORIZATION IS A TYPE OF ARCHITECTURE THAT WE BUILD. IT HAS A HIGH LIKELIHOOD TO BE OR BECOME OPPRESSIVE, MOSTLY, BECAUSE WE DON’T REALIZE THE POWER IN SORTING.

DON’T GET LOST IN JUST PUSHING STUFF AROUND.

What I’ve noticed about your communication when you’re cluttered…

OK HERE’S THE THING: NO HABIT IS INNATELY “BAD”. IN FACT, A “BAD” HABIT DONE RHYTHMICALLY OR WITH UNAPOLOGETIC REVERENCE… COULD BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF YOUR WELLNESS JOURNEY, A BRIDGE BETWEEN ONE CHAPTER AND THE NEXT.

WHY A DEGREE OF SNOBBERY IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING + A REFRAME OF FRUSTRATION AND DISAPPOINTMENT

THE SOLUTION IS NEITHER ADDITIVE NOR SUBTRACTIVE, IT’S TRANSFORMATIVE AND RESTORATIVE; IT’S SPIRIT COMPOST

Here’s a playlist.

PERHAPS ONLY COMMUNITY CAN HEAL US- AND PERHAPS CURIOSITY IS THE MECHANISM

Did you know that octopi play?

Sometimes a tangent is the most straightforward way of arriving. In support of play, work, impulses, wondering, and imagination, I made this for you. Grab a notebook or several pieces of paper and delight in play with these prompts. For fun.

Inspiration isn’t sterile. Life and energy are not sterile. Clarity (isn’t not) abundant.

I think artists, creative, intelligent, critical thinkers might not vibe with most organizing content because it’s superficial and lacks the meaningful capacities that we are needing right now:

• The capacity to actually see and comprehend where people are at: their dwelling ecosystems; their inspiration, energy, directionality (or lack there of), and their struggles and challenges that go far beyond, and exist at a higher level of importance than, tidiness.

I know… you’re like “What? I know it exists because I have it!” But it doesn’t exist and thinking it does actually keeps you disorganized.

I’ll explain using a natural truth that happens to be perfectly analogous: weeds in a garden. Nothing is innately clutter in the same way that nothing is innately a weed.

I have seen homes with so much stuff that there is but one narrow path through what would otherwise be a spacious apartment and stacks and piles that block doors from opening. It is no surprise to me that a mind in scarcity creates a space with few options.

I’ve learned, the long and hard way, that all messes (spatial, mental, regarding health, wealth, relationships, literally anything)… they are all the same and you are responsible for them all. A few points to lay the groundwork:

All messes are created by a lowering of standards. Standards are a form of structure and when we let them go our sense of orientation tumbles and mudslides.

Clarity via organizational strategy. This will be paradigm-shifting for you because… I bet you never thought about clutter as the same as indecision as the same as inertia as the same as depression.

When amidst a mess we often become paralyzed by potentialities “I would use that, I could wear this, this might be good for that” and stuck in inactivity because of a fear of making the wrong choice “but what if I need it later, I don’t want to be without” (or some other insecure/negative potential).

This is inertia in the same way that depression is.

Organizing, at it’s best, is relationship-building (forging a relationship between you and the stuff) that orients you to receive more from your space and things. The number one organizational error I see is organizing the stuff and forgetting the the reason why it’s even there and whether or not it’s fulfilling that potential.

I choose to be decisive about who I work with. Let me tell you why this matters.

We can’t talk about health without talking about healing, we can’t approach healing without understanding environments, and we can’t master our environments without realizing that relationships are environments.

I want to share these two perspectives because they are essential to everything I do and am. Also, because this way of thinking about coaching and self-investing has completely changed my life for the better. If it can have even a small percentage of the positive impact on your life as it has on mine, then it’s my responsibility to share.

I started integrating chat about depression, anxiety, and pain into my communication because let’s be real… so many of us know and have navigated darkness, usually alone because the conversations as they exist in society are isolating.

The fact that there’s an abundance of information and media and that we have access to it is not a bad thing. It’s actually great for the whole of us. But just because it’s all there all the time doesn’t mean it’s all worthy of our consumption or that we wouldn’t be best served to declutter our mental spaces.

it’s really all about imagining something better, believing in your abilities as a maker to de/reconstruct your world… resourcefulness, a rejection of what is going on that you’re not down with, and a determination to create/DIY your own scene. It’s super punk rock if you ask me.