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Home » Parenting » 3 Myths to Simplifying Life & Why You Need to Avoid Them

3 Myths to Simplifying Life & Why You Need to Avoid Them

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If you are like me you have tried to “get organized” at least 100 times over your lifetime. In my experience, I always ended up in the same place, back to the beginning of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out.

Basically, clutter overcame me and I wanted to scream.

Confucious

Simplifying myths come at us every day. We all live these myths! So how do we avoid these failed attempts at simplification?

This FREE WORKSHEET might help get you started!

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3 Simplifying Myths & Why People Fail

#1 – Diving in without looking at the big picture

Without a plan and without thinking inwardly at how you define simple, you won’t get to a sustainable simple way of life. You have to step back and define your why so that you may have clarity moving forward to truly simplify your life.

Related Read: What It Might Take to Slow Down as a Family

#2 – Viewing simplifying as organizing

It is not that simple folks. Simplifying your life goes way beyond the closets and kitchen cabinets. Simplifying your life is a whole life journey that involves your mind, your body, your home, and your family.

#3 – Using spring cleaning as the time to declutter your life

We all love spring cleaning, right? What better time to start fresh with the birds and the plants! Terrific. So, every year take a few weekends to kill your time and energy away from your family to clean out that basement or to organize that pantry! Take trips to the goodwill and fill those trash bags! Only to meet that same overwhelmed and stressed out feeling a few months, or maybe even weeks, later. Then start the process of “simplifying” all over again the next year. We want more than that short-term fix, right?

Resources to Help with Simplifying

  • The More of Less by Joshua Becker
  • Trash Bags
  • Simplify Notebook
  • Simplify Sign
  • 100 Essentials: Simple Kitchen + Capsule Wardrobe + Minimalist Home
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Marnie

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About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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