I am learning to tend to the complexity and messiness of myself and my life during my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge. Read my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Manifesto!! 
A Recovering Magpie’s Messiess
Learning how to tend to the complexities and sometimes messiness of my life is not an easy task for me. I have struggled along this path, falling and losing my way. I read this morning during my meditation tim, that “by cultivating what is already loving and good rather than just avoiding the bad” we may find that as we tend to the growth of love, there is less and less room for the weeds.
Oh how I have been weeding my preverbal garden this summer. The 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge has certainly made me address things and stuff and me many times.
Messy Magpie is fading.She understands the need for order and less complexity now. She loves the loss of messiness in her life. {WINK}
{Coming clean} I don’t much like weeding!
My Summer Simplifying Challenge
Messiness has been a big part of me for a long time. So much so, that it had begun to not be noticed or even bothersome. Now it is bothersome to the max. I crave the order that simplicity brings. I demand it of myself now. I expect to be living without the mess.
The Summer Simplifying Challenge has made that happen for me. I look around and celebrate the less-ness around me. It is far from minimalist, but it is less. And that is making it easier to breathe and live my life. All are side effects of this process and they are welcomed. I have been working hard to establish this order. I admit it is my vision of order. Your vision would most certainly be different. But isn’t that the beauty of life.
Everyone has their own way of living. Though it may not be pretty to you, it is comfortable for me to live among ‘olde’ things that have a history and a former life. They may, or may not, have been well loved. But they survived…as I certainly survive. Moving from survive to thrive is my next goal. I am finding that I can actually drive right past a Goodwill or a yard sale. Wooden pallets discarded along the road are another story. I still love t drag them home. I have a vision for them also…I just need several more. {Insert wily grin here – without any trace of deciet}
Today’s Accomplishments
- One box, sorted and things placed into the ‘outta here’ boxes!
- The house is clean and orderly.
Today’s Setbacks
- None.
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Fantastic subject. I am right there with you. I am always on day 1! lol
I laughed all through this read. Unique way of talking aboutcleaning up clutter. Good for you that if it is important to you, you are doing it. I think of myself as neat and organize and ignor those parts of my house and rooms where I am not. Hah- just making myself feel good. Continue having the kinds of days you want.