What I will wish I would have done
A timely reflection question
Hey, friend. How are you doing this week?
A favorite thing I’ve heard in the past week is this phrase from The Nester’s newsletter, my cozy style guru:
One question I've asked myself about this unique time in our history is, when I look back on this time, what will I wish I would have done?
Myquillyn Smith, aka The Nester
For me right now, that means consciously spending less time on social media and more time working here creating content and crafting my business, making sure I’m taking time to move my body every day, and reading actual books.
It doesn’t mean we have to do Nobel Prize winning work. It does mean that we should do something that matters to us - whether that’s taking this time to declutter our homes, spend time with our loved ones who live with us, read a book, or just doing breathing exercises as often as we need to.
That’s really what tidying & decluttering is about. It’s removing the unnecessary so that we can focus on what matters. Today, ask yourself the question, “What will I wish I would have done?” What’s not on that list, something you can get rid of to make space for something important to you?
Hit reply and let me know.
I’m cheering for you -
Amy
p.s. What I’m reading
Every newsletter, I’ll share what I’m reading and what it’s teaching me about tidying.
This week, I’ve been reading Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. I’m just under halfway through its immense eight hundred and seven pages. This book is not tidy. It’s sprawling. Tolstoy goes back and forth across Russia and his characters: at once this fellow, then this one, and everyone is related by in-laws or some army or civil service position, and often both, a dizzying spider web of connections and relationships.
And you know what? That’s okay. Sometimes, things don’t have to be tidy or minimal to work. This book is taking me forever and I am more than okay with that. I’m enjoying (most of the time) the leisurely plot, the arcane discussion about agricultural theory (I’m not kidding), the descriptions. With little else to do with my evenings, an untidy novel is just the thing to keep my mind occupied.
As an aside, I’m also motivated because I’ve discovered that Anna Karenina has a movie adaptation with Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Matthew Macfayden. So there’s that. I can’t wait - except I will, because I’m a purist and I do need some motivation for these remaining 439 pages.
What’s something “untidy” or extra that you absolutely love?