These series of posts are all about having the life we all want – being happy, being healthy and of course – wealthy. Each day I learn something new on this journey and share that knowledge and experience with you in all hopes you’ll find it beneficial and take something to guide you in jour journey of happiness. 💜
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These few days are all about getting rid of the stuff I don’t need and getting everything in order at house. While reading the book by Marie Kondo “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” I share what I learn and acknowledge with you. Hope it’s beneficial for you as well.
Today I've got to the page #67 and have some more ideas to share with you. Get ready, lots of interesting things are coming!
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✨ MY WOW MOMENT
When I bought this book and then started reading it, I thought it’s a book written by an expert in cleaning field. This is everything I’ve expected from this all adventure. BUT. Now I read the book and see that it’s full of coaching principles. And then I got it. Really, not the act of cleaning itself is so important. No tricks or tips will help you if you don’t have the right mindset and the right reasons that drives you into the doing mode. And coaching is the thing that is really helpful in this all. This was a really powerful acknowledgement for me. All the coaching principles flashed in front of me in one powerful moment. And I really spent some time not actually cleaning my house, but getting to know what I want and why I want it in means of a clean and tidy house. But let’s start from the beginning. ☝️
✨ GET TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
This is a core principle in coaching. It’s quite hard to acknowledge what we really want. I mean, we all somewhat know what we want, but if we look closer, usually we’ll notice that those desires are quite vague and not specific, more in form of a dream and not in the form of goals. And thus they’re quite unachievable. How can you achieve something so unspecific when it’s not clear what you really want? In my future posts I’ll cover the aspects of goal setting and tell you what are the principles of efficient goal setting.
So, in order to clearly understand what it is you want Marie Kondo suggests to really visualize the result. You want uncluttered house? What does it mean for you? How it’ll look like when your house is uncluttered? Will it have some specific scents? Will you want to enjoy some specific activities there? What do you want?
If you really can’t just understand and imagine what exactly you want and how it’ll look like – you can get inspired by some photos on hte Internet or specialized magazines, as well as you can go to some furniture stores and explore what’s exciting there. From the stores for those purposes I like IKEA. They always have trendy examples how their furniture can look in the interior.
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✨ TAKE SOME TIME TO UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WANT IT
Now you’d think it’s enough of preparation and it’s time to go and clean everything up. But no, here comes the best and most valuable part. You should take some time and with no rush listen to yourself and understand why it is exactly that you want all this? And when you get your answer – even then it’s not enough. You should ask yourself once again: “Okay, and for what purposes would I want this”? And so on for at least 3-5 times.
Actually, in business management it’s called FIVE WHY technique.
In business world it’s mostly used to understand the real problem. For example:
You identify a problem and then ask “Okay, and why this problem occurred?”
Then you find an answer for your question, like another problem, and then ask: “Good, and why then this other problem occurred?” And like this for at least five WHY questions.
This is done in order to get to that real reason why you want it (or why the problem occurred). The trick is that only that TRUE reason drives you to real long-term actions.
What we usually do is to try and get motivated by those surface reasons which usually just won’t work. But when you get to your deep and valuable motivators, then everything is done just easier and with more fun. And the best part – IT WORKS!
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