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Care Package Archive

Rejuvenating and practical frameworks for creating Clarity and Wellness in all areas of your life.

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Care Packages🤲🏽

You know when someone who loves you sends you a parcel with a bunch of goodies in it? I’m endeared to the care package (in whatever form it comes) as a way of making, way of caring, way of sharing. There’s no shortage of possibility as to how a care package presents, what it contains, what assortments are collected, how it’s delivered, how it’s received, and what it might mean to it’s recipients.

I value that this orientation toward making and giving can bring together items that you don’t always see together. You’re simply giving what’s needed and what might land as care. I like when a care package is a sweet collection of some practical stuffs and also things for pure enjoyment (maybe highlighting the functionality of joy and pleasure to our survival); a mix of things you can use in the long run plus some things to use right now. A box containing socks, a nice notebook, some chocolate, a bag of rice.

I like both mail and creating with the intention to give, so the Care Package holds a place in my heart. I send the people on my list a weekly (email) Care Package 🤲🏽. I write them with the intention of both holding space for all the positive possibility that you radiate, and to be of real tangible use. Ideas that you can grab onto, that make a difference in your life.

I created the Care Package Archive to collect these packages all in one place. Sign up if ya wanna receive em straight to your inbox.

CARE PACKAGE 12 🤲🏽 How to Understand & Clarify ANY Mess (physical or non-physical)

How to understand & clarify ANY mess (physical or non-physical)

Brief horn tooting- I’ve been working on these idea (regarding the pursuit of wellness and clarity) basically my whole life and, I have to say, I’ve gained insight that I know for a fact no one else can give you. 

I’ve worked at synthesizing these concepts in a way that is transferable to literally ANY mess you’re dealing with. And I’m proud to say this unique understanding DOES make it all EXTRAORDINARILY SIMPLE (which I know is exactly what we need and want when we’re confused)!

As well, compared to organizational tips that only apply to your closet or pantry or whose competencies only extend to the superficial (the appearance of tidiness), this understanding is applicable whether your mess is physical (home or body) or non physical (mind or spirit) and has the capacity to go so deep that it is thoroughly and sustainably life-changing.

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. 

Here are the key nuggets to your paradigm shift:

  • The opposite of clutter is clarity.

  • Nothing is innately clutter, in the same way that no plant is innately a weed. Any plant that might in one situation be cultivated can, in another situation, be a weed if it is not what is being cultivated and is interfering with the intent of the space. Weeds and clutter are classifications entirely dependent on context of intention and cultivation.

  • Clutter is the idleness of choice. This is why it’s no different from inertia and this is why choice-making is clarifying.

  • Choice-making (sifting, sorting, making decisions) is the easiest and most efficient way to start moving out of a mess.

  • Clutter, mess, confusion, indecision, depression, inertia… are all the same.

  • Movement (physical and non physical) is life.

  • Choice, imagination, and envisioning are examples of non-physical yet effective forms of movement.

  • Movement counteracts inertia. That’s why movement is clarifying.

  • We all seek clarity because clarity supports our forward momentum.

  • If you dont have clarity you can create it with movement (physical or non physical).

  • If you don’t have clarity you can create it with choice.

  • Choice, itself, is movement.

  • Choice, itself, is a clarifying act.

So a few questions- Is clarity of value to you? Is there some area of your life where you are lacking clarity (physical or non-physical)? Does it feel like a mess/does it look like inertia, indecision, confusion, overwhelm, or even depression?

What is this lack of clarity costing you? Whatever it’s costing you now… where will you be 5 years from now if you don’t do anything about it?

Alternately, what would become possible for you if you gained clarity and positive momentum in the area you’re thinking of? And if you did that sooner rather than later, what would become possible for you over the next 5 years?

Seeing clearly your highest potential and positive path forward, 

Loretta

Originally shared 2 June 2021

Loretta Barrera