What a Cluttered Storage Shed Can Teach You About Your Life
The storage shed represents your life and how it gets so filled with things, time and energy, appointments, obligations, and we want to keep it refined and thinned out and properly organized, but that's not the way it usually works.…
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The storage shed represents your life and how it gets so filled with things, time and energy, appointments, obligations, and we want to keep it refined and thinned out and properly organized, but that's not the way it usually works. We just pile more in and everything gets disorganized and crammed, but there's really no time to stop and evaluate it.
Well, we made time for that with our shed, and I would argue that what's currently happening in most households, the amount of time on your hands at this moment, at least relative to usually, is an afforded opportunity to evaluate your life and how it had been previously scheduled, now that things have temporarily changed.
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Maybe for you, there's work that you're not doing now that you were doing, or school, or places that you were going regularly, and you can go ahead and make those piles. If I ask you right now to make a trash pile to throw away some of that stuff, I have to tell you, before the storage shed endeavor of yesterday, I thought that was going to be pretty easy.
In this perfect opportunity to reevaluate our lives, let's just cut some stuff out so that when everything gets back to the new normal, and it will, we'll have a lot more space in the shed.
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But if you have any children or grandchildren, nieces or nephews in your life at all, even if you're distance at the moment, time with them is incredibly important. And that's something, by the way, that my family of six has learned over the last several weeks.
We have spent a lot more time doing really great things together that we were just too busy or tired to do before.
Practice it in real life
We put the things we love to do most right there in the front of the shed, and the things that were a bit more passive or unnecessary near the back, old school books, clothes for the winter, etc. Put things back carefully, intentionally and wisely, and in the end there will be space to move, and it feels good.
And maybe if you've got children like mine and you've got room for them to be with you, to play, to experience joy, it will be worth any and all cuts you had to make.
Take the idea with you.
- 01Where does the central idea of “What a Cluttered Storage Shed Can Teach You About Your Life” show up most clearly in my life right now?
- 02What does this episode call me to believe, stop, start, or handle differently?
- 03What is one specific action I can take today instead of merely agreeing with the idea?
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This article was adapted from The Storage Shed. Continue with the podcast for the original teaching in Kris’s voice.
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