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The Seattle Sparkle Method to Get Organized and Stay Organized
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You don’t know where to start. You don’t have the time. You are easily overwhelmed. If you want an organized home, you’ve got to simultaneously do the work from within. In this 5 week guide, I will give you the right steps in the right order to organize your home and keep it that way. As a creative person, you know messes will always happen (as they should!). With this guide, you will be able to dial in ways to naturally get the messes picked up with ease. When done consistently, you will see incredible results, and be set up on a cycle to continually maintain your home month after month. To be organized, it’s not about creating a disciplined routine. It’s about optimizing your environment to set up the conditions for inevitable success. As a glassblower, when the starter bubble was perfect, the glass would blow out with such evenness and ease. But when the bubble was set up for failure, it was a constant struggle to keep the proportions even. Any expert in habit change will tell you that good habits are not about exerting willpower. They are about not putting yourself in the situations where you have to exercise will power as often. Surround yourself with people that inspire you do what’s in your best interest, rather than ones that tempt you to make unhealthy choices so that you stay stuck with them. Optimizing your home environment will create a snowball effect of productivity, inner power, and inner trust. As you set up these conditions, you will become more in-tune with your inner advisor, your intuition. The more you can hear that voice and act in alignment with your goals and values, the easier it will be to have (and maintain!) an organized home. This is simply a framework for you to get your home organized. Choices about what to keep and what to let go of are all up to you.
Why This Works:
Many books on home organizing provide logical advice. Sometimes it works, but many times, it can reinforce the differences between people that are “organized” and the people who aren’t, and leave readers feeling worse than before they read the book. This manual is based on the Wheel of Life that I’ve created. There are five main areas of life: health, relationships, career, finances and spirituality. The more round, balanced and expanded this wheel is, the more often you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, and the easier it will be to create and maintain an organized home. I have created a “Wheel of Life” with categories in all of these areas. I have also created a “Home Environment Wheel” to align with activities in the “Wheel of Life”. Please note that although I have categorized the different areas of the home into the five areas of life, these categories are very fluid. For example, I’ve put “kitchen” in the “finances” section, but it could easily fit into any of the others- “health”, “relationships”, “career”, or “spirituality”. The reason for this categorization is to simply give you another framework for viewing each area of the home. Each day will have an assignment related to organizing your home, and another assignment related to organizing your life.
This manual is divided up into 5 weeks. Monday-Friday align with the five main areas of life. Saturday is a catch up day, and Sunday is for reflections. As you embark on these activities, they will change your brain so that you have more access to the parts of your brain that are necessary for organization. The activities are designed to harmonize the mind, by improving blood flow to the prefrontal cortex, the part of your mind responsible for creative thinking, decision making, memory and planning. Organizing your home will become easier, because you are rewiring your brain to a more harmonized state. You will notice a soothing in your amygdala, the fight/flight center of your brain. When highly activated, it’s impossible to create a calming environment around you. Because your outer world is a reflection of your inner world, if you are in a state of mental and emotional panic, that will be reflected in your surroundings. When you get the urge to check the news or your email “one more time” (especially before bed), you are likely to trigger your amygdala, and set worry or fear into motion. The more often your amygdala is triggered, or the longer you stay in that state, the stronger the habit is to stay stressed. When you are in a highly stressed state, you will have less access to your prefrontal cortex. This is the brain’s reward center. Studies have shown that the pleasure and process of creating art delivers a “reward” to the brain in the form of being proud of what you’ve accomplished, and the entertainment value. You’re less likely to seek rewards that may not be in your best interest, including snacking, drinking, shopping or screen time. These activities rarely lend themselves to an organized home. On the contrary, your self-regulation meter will be tuned up. The activities you notice yourself naturally drawn to doing will align with the natural flow of living life- fully expressing yourself, treating yourself with respect and kindness, and then tidying up after yourself before things get too out of control.
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