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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 6 🤲🏽 I Invite You to Unsubscribe :)

I invite you to unsubscribe :)

It would be an error as an organizational thinker not to help individuals navigate information overload. Decluttering media stimulus and structuring boundaries around the information we consume may be even more relevant than dealing with your closets and drawers.

There is an abundance of information everywhere; content, options, opinions, voices, experts, “best ways” to do this or that. And it all always has the potential to be in our minds nonstop. Is this good for us though?

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.

Same with physical spaces and things. It’s great that there’s plenty of ‘stuff’ in the world and it’s great that we have access to it. But we don’t need all the stuff in the world to be housed in our home. 

To navigate the abundance of both physical and mental stuff, we make choices. To navigate what has already entered our physical and mental spaces, we declutter.

Decluttering is not about what you “should” or “shouldn’t do.” Decluttering is simply a VERY powerful tool to gain clarity… which is extremely relevant in an age of information overload. Having clarity is essential to our health and wellbeing. Having clarity is foundational to our sense of direction and confidence moving forward.

Clutter is the opposite of clarity; decluttering is a clarifying act.

It ought to be noted that decluttering is not a judgement of the ‘stuff’ so much as it is a decision about our relationship to the ‘stuff’. At it’s best, stuff can facilitate your activities and the enjoyment of your life. (How would a skier ski without skies?) At it’s worst, collections of stuff held onto can create physical and mental puzzles and predicaments that literally trap you, exacerbate fear and overwhelm, and prevent you from living and enjoying your life.

I’d like you to recognize how the information and media you consume affects you. I’d like you to think of all the information you are consuming as just as tangible as your favorite pair of shoes and/or the broken blender that’s still in your kitchen. The high quality information being comparable to your favorite shoes and everything else being comparable to the broken blender. The stuff’s impact on you is real, it’s relevance or irrelevance to your life is real, and the alignment of your choices with who you are and want to be is real. 

Regarding the media you take in and on whatever platforms it may exist- this week, sift through the clutter. 

(Nothing is innately clutter just like nothing is innately a weed. Weeds are just plants that are not what you’re cultivating that may interfere with the life of what you areintending to grow. Similarly, clutter is what you’re not using, loving, or wanting that interferes with the relationship you have with the stuff you are using, loving, and wanting.)

So, first: clarify what you’re cultivating. Make a list of the sources (information/media/etc.) that you really appreciate and that contribute to your life. Spend a moment dwelling on what you like about them.

Second: Now, with what you’ve discovered about those sources that you love, you’ve effectively created a new standard for yourself. Consider how truly lovely it would be to only take in information of this new quality standard, to be surrounded only by information and media that gives back to you at this level.

Third: With this new standard in mind, go forth and confidently release the other stuff that just isn’t resonating the same way. Unfollow, unsubscribe, delete the app, etc. The things you choose to keep will be even more delightful to you when you get the other stuff out of the way.

Remember that decluttering isn’t a judgement about the stuff, its an act of clarification about what is resonating right now, which highlights and crystallizes positive possibility in your vision for your future.

Clearly and overtly in support of your transformational clarity!

Loretta

Originally shared 21 April 2021

Loretta Barrera