Heather Aardema shares a client's story about how curiosity sparked real change. A woman stuck in her retirement transition found momentum by exploring something new, pickleball, which helped her finally declutter her home office and move forward.
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I want to tell you a short.
Story about someone who came to me.
And she said the same thing.
I'm not motivated, and yet I have.
This office full of file cabinets and.
Papers and papers and papers from my career. She's retired or pretty close to retirement. Now she is retired, and.
And she wants a lighter office. She's tired of the mess.
In fact, she doesn't even like to.
Go into the office. It's a home office.
So I said, okay.
Have you spent any time getting curious? Well, what do you mean? What do you mean getting curious? Have you spent any time thinking about.
Decluttering and thinking about what your strategy.
Or approach will be? Whatever approach feels best and lightest to you?
And she said, no, I haven't thought.
About it at all. I said, well, what have you been thinking about? And she said, pickleball. Pickleball. It was a new sport to her. She had never played before. A friend brought it up.
They went and took a lesson, and she was having so much fun learning about pickleball. Well, she comes to me a few months later, and she's like, heather, I'm.
Not making any progress on my study. What's wrong?
And I said, well, how's the pickleball coming along?
And she's like, oh, I'm so good. She's athletic. And she. She said, you know, the more I play, the better I get.
And I said, okay. How much time are you putting towards pickleball? A couple hours a week. And so I said, how much time are you putting towards decluttering?
Well, I'm not. Not doing any decluttering.
Have you gotten curious about clutter? Your clutter? No, I don't even want to think about it.
Well, here's the thing. If we choose not to think about.
