EPISODE 6 WITH PROFESSIONAL HOME ORGANIZER KRISTYN IVEY
Guest: Declutter your home and find your ideal lifestyle with Kristyn Ivey
In this episode of Hey Close Friends I had the pleasure of chatting and meeting the wonderful Kristyn Ivey; professional home organizer and founder of "‘For the Love of Tidy’. If you’re a success at work, you're creative and talented in your free time…but when it comes to your home, you're stressed and overwhelmed, For the Love of Tidy is the perfect place to start your decluttering journey and establishing new habits.
As a creative I can firmly say that I work so much better when the environment I am in is clean. Anyone else can relate to this? However, I find myself going on this never ending loop of cleaning every. single. day. As Kristyn explains through our talk, mental health and clutter are totally complacent of each other. How many times do we spend unnecessary money on stuff? I know I do, and that sometimes has to do with the way I am feeling. Sometimes a bad situation triggers this mindless shopping and then I end up with all this stuff that just sits there and clutters my home. Let’s not talk about the financial impact that this has. I can easily pin point so many things in my home that I spent money on and now just sit there with no purpose. That eventually adds up!
Thankfully, Kristyn walks us through how to get started on our clutter free journey and breaks down each step. You’d be surprised to find out that the first step in this journey is not folding clothes a certain way or getting rid of an incredible amount of things…the first step is actually figuring out the vision of your ideal home. This is an underrated step , but it’s literally the first step that will steer us towards the right direction. If you don’t have a clear vision for your home you can’t see where you are headed with this. In fact Kristyn explains that she actually doesn’t work with clients unless they have this vision nailed down because she can’t guide them towards making the best decisions for themselves unless she understands what they want. If all of this resonated with you, head over the podcast episode and listen up because the amount of knowledge shared on this particular episode will have you rethinking the way you approach your cluttered home!
HOMEWORK
Take a moment to establish your ideal home and lifestyle. What is that vision? Here’s how you can find that vision. Ask yourself these questions:
•What do I need more of and what do I want less of in my life?
•What does my ideal day look like? Break it down into detail.
•How do I want my home to look or feel?
Deep dive into a subcategory of clutter (Not even a category, just a subcategory! Let’s start small). Dive deep and apply the ideal home and lifestyle vision to it (Filter it that way you won’t have that grey area anymore when you are thinking of keeping or getting rid of that item).
