Video Transcript
Today, we are going to talk about decluttering and organizing in chapters or seasons of your life. What do I mean by this? What are chapters of our lives? When I think back to grammar school and high school and college and young adult and my first business and moving to Nashville, all of these different chapters. Right?
I have little keepsake box boxes for all of these things. What I saved in when I was 8 or 9 years old in grammar school didn't always carry through throughout the years, but but the most important thing is that I had already gone through everything and organized a little keepsake box. I was 8 or 9 years old and I had this entire keepsake box of things. The next time, let's now jump a little bit to high school, I would look back at the grammar school box and kind of just sift through it and I would get get rid of a lot of the stuff. Not all of it, I still have, I have keepsakes from when I was a baby to again grammar school to high school, all of that.
But it makes it easier to do it in these chapters, right? What I mean by this is I'm 32 years old. If I'm 32 years old now and I am for the first time going through everything that I had from grammar school when I was a child and all the way up to 32 years old. That's a lot of stuff to go through. Right?
But the earlier that we start, the better. And if if you're starting later in life, it's okay. Listen, just just start today. That's the most important thing. But because I had this keepsake box from when I was in grammar school, when it was time to go and create my high school one, I would just sift through the grammar school one and get rid of a lot of stuff, right?
It made it very easy. And as the years go on, I got rid of more and more, but I kept them all special things. That's gonna continue, the process is gonna continue forever. But now it's very easy to look back at that grammar school box, that high school book box, that college box, and just get rid of what I no longer need. Make sense?
Hope that makes sense. I'm left now with all the really really special important things that I love to hold on to and I love to keep and have those memories and I love looking back at those boxes. I don't look back at them every single day, but I do, I really love looking back at those keepsake boxes because they evoke memories and things that I love seeing. But the point is, when you do it in chapters and you're acting more in the present and decluttering and organizing at each stage in your life, it makes it a lot easier to go through them as time goes on. That is what we call organizing in chapters.
Happy organizing, everybody. Follow Christina's corner for more tips and tricks of how to get organized.
