Tag: declutter

YOU CANNOT SAVE OTHERS IN BUSINESS

It is now 2:41 a.m. and I’m in my home office determined to finish my remodeling project as part of my spring killing. For months I’ve planned to refurbished/repaint 4 bar stools, 2 end tables, 1 bar table, and a long converted hall table among some other things. I got all the paint I need that’s in my color scheme, my sander, paint brushes, and got to task these pass couple of weeks, fitting in my project here and there.

I began to feel overwhelmed, in conjunction I had new office furniture I was putting together and organizing/restructuring other systems in my home-based office. I could not shake off the feeling of being overwhelmed and wondering where I was even going to put all this stuff once done painting. I ran over the design over in my head over and over, but it felt like it would just be too much.

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Now, I do not like crowded spaces at all, I love to scale my things up, but having stuff all around sends me mad mentally. So, tonight it finally hit me! I have to much stuff, stuff I’ve been trying to save and repurpose. Tables I’ve literally have had for 20 years…. it’s time to let it go. Let the truth be told I shoulda been let these things go, but I have history with them, they sorta tell a story, but in all honestly it is costing me more in labor and money to keep these things.

What’s ironic is I’ve ordered beautifully updated new and glamorous office furniture that I really like, but the old was clashing being it’s half-way rotted, chipped, wobbly, etc. For some reason on a subconscious level I was feeling guilty for daring to discard the furniture. Look, it’s bulky, old, coming apart and just not me anymore. The furniture served its purpose, and I’ve kept it beyond its time.

In the midst of my ah-ha moment one-by-one I began moving item after item downstairs around 2 a.m. to be ready to take to the dumpster in the morning. As I began to pick up each item and part with it ever having habitation in my home, I began to feel free, open, lifted, able to breathe fresh decluttered air! As I write this I have a burst of energy, excited, and zeal because I can see me now tackling assignments in my home-based office. See my environment/workspace means the world to me. It’s a must! I call it business-class feng shui!

I can go on and on about my intense revelation, but let me tell you what it has to do with business. March 20th 2022 marked the official day of spring which resembles/coincides with birthing, newness, clean, fresh, etc. They don’t call it “spring cleaning” for no reason. As I am cleaning my office ridding the old and implementing the new, I too am doing this in my business, be-it with style, business partnerships, work relationships, systems, formats, I have scrubbed it all, scaling it to a new level of operation.

As a business coach I’m a champion of people, a natural born exhorter of others, literally a walking, talking, daily coach. I cannot help, but to believe in people and believe that they can and will win, but at some point that some to an end and I must champion for myself.

As I and you spring forward we must be okay with clearing out anything operation wise in business that does not serve us. We must be okay with parting with individuals we’ve outgrown. We must be okay with putting our business and selves first and shutting doors for good! One thing about me when I walk away and make peace with departing it’s a wrap, and I’m okay with it. In business you must learn to have mini silent funerals to old ways, habits, people, thoughts, situation, etc. Death is beautiful when you know the transition yields life.

I challenge each of you to look around your homes, home-based office, cluttered closets, friends list, subscriptions on YouTube, bills, and see what you can have mini funerals for. What can you depart with? Pull those things out and be okay with ushering the new! To declutter your workspace is to declutter your mind causing an avalanche of by default of organization, mental clarity, free flowing ideas, and emotional intelligence. Right now I am so stoked I am going to have to force myself to go to bed, but I cannot wait to wake up and finish my tasks in my office in the morning!

Tell me, do you see a correlation of your mental health and unorganized workspace? Do you feel weighted down, having considered the very furniture, file holders, old stuff are causing emotional heaviness limiting your ability to get work done? Let me know in the comment section, and thanks for reading today’s blog.

DECLUTTER YOUR DOLLARS

DECLUTTER YOUR DOLLARS to be inflation and weather the financial storm that will take so many by surprise in the worst way.

Costs continue to skyrocket, inflation nowhere near peaking and already at a 40 year high (from the President Regan years), food & energy getting out of control, it’s time to DECLUTTER YOUR DOLLARS (new ebook coming out this week by CEO DRIVEHER). 🏦💵🕵️‍♀️👩🏾‍💻 The average American 🇺🇸 family has already seen a cost 💲 of living increase of $300 – $500 a month. I want to help you in more creative ways place a financial hedge of protection to offset rising costing. Some things we have no control over and will just have to fork over the dough, but if we creatively drop costs in other areas we won’t feel it as much. Here are some of the strategies, suggestions, and ideas 💡 to implement to minimize costs that make a massive difference!

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1. Create milk routes! What do I mean by that? Maximize your time and energy by planning/scheduling shopping, errands, appointments, etc. We fail to realize how much time, fuel, and energy is expended from not planning our days. Take for instance you can plan to do all these things once a week on the same day! I’d suggest when doing this you start at the earliest time so you’re not fighting with traffic. Also set up a roadmap/list of all the stops and hit them up in a uniform manner so you’re not overlapping. I use to do this when I was an Uber driver and it works!

2. Cancel subscriptions that are of no value! If you never use them, ditch them. Learn to live without certain things. I don’t care 🤷🏾‍♀️ if it’s for $2 dollars if it fails to serve you ditch it.

3. Start a change jar placing all change in a 5-gallon water jug. Yo, trust me this works! You’ll be surprised what a full $ 5-gallon jug can save up. I had a friend that had $7,000+ in one of those and she used it as a down payment for a truck. She was a waitress in iHop and from tips always had changed.

4. Do laundry only 2x a month! Why? I’ve noticed people will wash 3 pieces of clothes use up a bunch of energy, soap powder, and water for a few pieces of clothes. You want to maximize your loads (not overstuffing), but get drear use of components. Y’all water, energy, and detergent are EXPENSIVE! Learn to reserve.

5. Cook at home with quality foods especially if you have children. People really sleep on this because they think paying less for food and eating processed low-quality food is better serving when in fact it’s not. Actually, it’ll cost you more eating CHEAP! Processed foods are filled with fillers that leave you satisfied for a minute, but due to being stripped of things like fiber you’re quickly hungry again. This is why kids eat so damn much. Cheap food goes right through them. Have a high fiber-based diet and fatty proteins to keep a longer-lasting sense of fullness.

6. Get an air fryer and large crockpot! Yo, you’ll barely use your stove or over which preserves fuel/energy costs. Plus you get the best damn food ever! My air fryer does the most it’s even a dehydrator. Next on my list is a bread maker and high-power mixer.

7. Get some weather stripping and insulate your doors, windows, etc. duh 🙄. Y’all with energy costs going up this should be a no-brainer! For less than a hundred bucks you can do this for your home 🏡 or apartment. These things actually work too good. If you have some old ones simply replace them.

8. By dry goods in bulk directly from the manufacturer or believe it or not Amazon. Learn to pay attention to the oz. and pounds on a box of food. It takes a little math, but due to “shrinkflation” grocery stores are making hand over fist and I get it, but if you have certain products you love, buy in bulk elsewhere. (And not always Costco 😒.)

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I’ll have dozens more option in my upcoming ebook, but here’s a great start! One of my favorite economist is now shouting to the mountain tops on the incoming hyper-inflation. This is what we most definitely do not want, it could literally destroy America (which is the elites plan, to financially collapse our dollar so that we go to a global dollar, one world currency). Of all classes the middle-class will be the worse affected. The middle-class makes up the larger majority of our society as well pays the MOST in taxes. Remember inflation is a form of a tax. They seek to tax the hell out of us to keep us enslaved and co-dependent on big government. I strongly encourage you all to get in front of this, and a major way is by implementing a means to declutter your dollars, cut costs, and think of purchasing power on a macro-level.

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