How I Got Here

I have a full life that I love, but there are a lot of people and responsibilities competing for my time. In other words, I am a busy person. Too busy.

I used to think I had to do everything—and do it perfectly. I carried a mental list of things to do that stressed me out. I was slow to eliminate things from my life that weren’t serving me anymore because I was resistant to change. And I believed things that simply weren’t true, like, I can only lose five pounds and then the weight loss stops. My doctor set me straight on that one!

But one of the harshest things I did to myself? I put everyone else before me.

One day a friend asked me, “When are you going to put away your superhero cape?”

That one hit home.

I love helping people. But when was my life going to be a little more about the things that made me happy?

That realization led me to look for ways to simplify my life and make room for myself. Some of the solutions I found aren’t new—I just had to figure out the right way to put them into practice. Others are solutions I created myself because I needed a simpler way.

My motto is “Everything you need and nothing you don’t.”

Because if something is complicated, I’m less likely to use it consistently—or at all. I can’t tell you how many tools I’ve bought because they were going to “change my life,” only to forget they existed a week later.