what's in this email:

how to change your life? - rearrange the furniture

what's taking up space that could be energy in your pocket

I'm so new to this business, some days I'm not sure this IS my business

in the business I'm in, it's important for things to change. Or maybe that's everyone's business.

What does a changed space do? What IMPACT does a changed space have?

"If you want to change your life, rearrange all the cabinets in the kitchen"

the house is YOU

Greetings Thinkers,

Day 80 on a Thursday. A nice round milestone number. "Making me" think about what the birthday milestone of 80 might be like, if I get to that one!

Yesterday I rearranged the furniture

Apparently this is something people do, like it's a thing. Kind of like when you want to change your life, get a drastic haircut. That's a thing too. What else are these kinds of things?

I'm wondering if I have ever done the furniture rearranging thing.
I know at least one someone who does this.

I am also wondering if I haven't done it because I live in such a small space. On one hand it feels like living in a small space means you have really limited options for rearranging the furniture so you probably don't do it that often. Once you find an arrangement that works, you leave it. On the other hand it seems like maybe you should do it a lot to find the more and most efficient use of your space. You should always be looking for new arrangements or new pieces that make the small space more efficient.

Whichever way it may be, I seem to have not been a person who does a max furniture move of her home as a way of figuring out or revamping her life. I do other things for that but appreciate souls who use this method!

And yesterday I got a renewed sense of what it's like to REARRANGE THE FURNITURE. I did so at one of my spaces - a big overhaul of the big stuff in that space. I went in there and ("just") DID IT, because there was no clarity before so. Back to that idea of CLARITY coming after and via ACTION.

I got 2 big pieces that I had been using but weren't mine, out of my space. In my business, having things in your space that aren't yours or aren't for sale, takes away from your monetizeable real estate. (Money / energy in your pocket.) So I got those 2 biggest items moved out so I could take up that space with my own stuff. (Me taking up space is probably another thing I could write about. Note to self.)

Since those 2 biggest heaviest pieces were moved, I went about moving every thing else. Well all except this one shelf that is "immovable". And well of course that isn't true because when there are no CAN'Ts in the world, it is immoveable, and I don't want to move it , so that makes it immoveable for now. It's a thing that is barely standing up on its own and I am afraid one more move will be its ilast.

Anyway I moved "everything" which means I swept everything. I saw floor in my building that I had never seen before. It could have used a good wipe down too, with water and a rag, but I didn't do that only because I was racing daylight to use.

So I have this to report - rearranging the furniture did a lot for my state. A lot means a lot of GOOD for my life.

I felt better after rearranging the furniture. I felt like progress had been made. And it "makes me" think of this lesson I am tinkering with, another "in my business" kind of thing, which remember I'm so new to this business, some days I'm not certain this IS my business yet. Is my business as a retailer? That's the business I'm in?

Well in that business I think I'm learning that it's important for things to CHANGE, for the scene (the space) to change. For it to LOOK different, even if the things in it aren't different. REARRANGE. And this especially when you have a big repeat customer base, which The Old Lucketts Store does have, which means that's what I have looking at my stuff.

it pays to flip

This is what one of the "big vendors" said the other day. She wasn't saying it to me particularly or pointedly, but she did it say it and I felt it particularly. My sells have been low and I hadn't done a big "FLIP" of my space. So that's what I've been after, and I think that's what I started to achieve yesterday via MOVING THE FURNITURE AROUND.

What does this have to do with you, because most of you are not in the business of retail or curating space as a livelihood?

It can still have plenty to do with you.

What does a changed space do? What IMPACT does a changed space have?

"If you want to change your life, rearrange all the cabinets in the kitchen" - This was something I got from a Tony Robbins conference. After 80 hours worth of stuff in an intense 3 day seminar, Tony has the challenge of helping / tasking people to take what they've learned with them. It's not easy to walk out the door and truly apply all the strategies, changes, and ideas you get from an experience like that. So in the last hour he gives some suggestions for how to do do this via his MC guy Joseph McClendon III. Joseph instructs the audience to go home and rearrange the house and he means it literally. If all the plates are in the cabinet above the sink, where it clearly makes the most senes for the plates to be, MOVE THEM. Wherever you are used to going to for your coffee supplies, put them on the other side of the room. And so forth. You get the point.

REARRANGE THE STUFF

This isn't just a retailers and curators of space trick to sell stuff. This is a life hack.

When you're in a funk, when things feel stagnant, when you don't know what else to do - REARRANGE THE HOUSE.

And don't rearrange someone else's house first or instead.

Now a Jordan Peterson line is coming to me - Rule 6 - set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

I think it's basically meant to mean - don't go criticizing or trying to "fix" others and other people's problems until you have "fixed" yourself. You can't have a messy house and go out to put someone else's house in order. Or can you?

And I'll add maybe it isn't about PERFECT ORDER. Maybe it's "just" REARRANGE YOUR HOUSE (the house is YOU in case you're missing it) before you think rearranging someone else's house is going to help you.

It's like cleaning the house before doing the homework you're putting off. Maybe here's the evidence for why we do that. The power of rearranging, of moving furniture.

What do you see about it?

It went from looking worse the day before yesterday to looking better now. It's not done, but in "my business" it will never be "DONE". I didn't get any good pictures of the "makeover" because I worked until I ran out of daylight. I regreatblay probably also didn't get any good before pics. It will be a case of seeing what I already had and comparing it to what's now.

On leaving yesterday, stopping to close the gates, I looked over and took this picture as it stood out to me. What a cool space I get to call "my space" , I thought.

Energy to you to move the furniture.

🔺

KG

standouts / other thoughts

is it inspiration or am I abandoning what's in my head, uninfluenced from the external world?

When is a "DISTRACTION" a good thing?
When is "external influence" a good thing?
If you're asking when these things are good things, you have to also consider when these things are bad things.

repellant qualities. what things have repellant qualities to you?

I also liked the idea of commitment to creativity, doing a thing so regularly

currently (NOT) reading:

Books:

• Kitchen Things
• Let Them
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
• Plato The Last Days of Socrates
• Forgotten Home Apothecary

word of the day

dispose: bring (someone) into a particular frame of mind

use it: when I think of dispose, I think of dispose of, to get rid of which goes with yesterday's word detritus. But I like this word, paired with today's topic about arranging things, organizing, things we all feel compelled to do in varying ways and times.

The suggestions is - rearranging the house disposes you to more order in your internal life.

quote to consider

“Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."​
-Jordan Peterson

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Index: references, keys, and definitions

What does any of this have to do with you?
You tell you.

SOC = Stream Of Consciousness

When to Which / When is it Which: a Kymology philosophy that every single thing has its equal and opposite true and good side. Every single thing is literal here.

Exhibit. When I say the word Exhibit it's my way of saying a post or a share. I exhibit my life by posts and publishings on social media and blog spaces. These are my Exhibits.
My life is my work, my work is my life. I Exhibit my work.
like to exhibit art in a gallery. Show, put on a wall for experience, interoperation, comment, and ultimately USE.

A Year of Inspiring, The Kymology Daily - what it is: daily emails about whatever I'm thinking about and writing out. Not quietly. Not maybe. Not sometimes. Not irregularly. Not in silence until it's done. Daily. A Year of Inspiration, the Kymology Daily Email is for and about getting my stuff written out and down. Catalogged and Exhibited. And practicing. Practicing regular exhibiting, and writing, writing, writing.

"It's been awhile since I've been called inspiring." Then be inspiring again.

Don't break commitments you make to yourself.

You never say "you're human" to a huge success.

Coordinating to get the thing done, is not not doing the thing.

How you arrange your details matters.

A list of words to remember and use "more":

• polymath
• sundries
• short shrift
• gimassive
• apricity
• remonstrate- to argue against something to change it, to present and urge reasons in opposition, expostulate

Everyone's nothing is different.
Everyone's everything is different too.

is it worth it, is it worth it, is it worth it - saying this to everything!

Things you could know about me:

I'm not a cherry picker of anything. I like to use things that exist rather than start from new or scratch. I am typically an ostrich about politics, news, current events, pop culture and media. I dislike under thought things like cliches and commonly said quotes and phrases. Don't tell me what to do, or say "how how are you?" or "I'm sorry for your loss" unless you want to annoy me or you really, really mean it. And know it can be hard to tell which it is, and I'm wrong not infrequently.

I have a tendency to make things every day things. This is where 30 Day Challenges come from!
​Challenges as a framework are what my body, mind, and soul gravitate toward. (That's the everydayness thing.)

Like yourself. Know yourself. Express that self.
Think about things. Don't feel like you have to dance in the rain to have a good life.
Don't have a plan. Stand for what matters. Read when you want to. Don't smile when people tell you to.
Don't have goal. Tend plants. Leave marks. Do what you say. Change YOUR world. And your mind!
Be a friend and a daughter and a partner and a sister and a dog mom.
In a world full of "accept who you are" messages, don't forget to be a "work on that" kind of person. Don't put kindness above truth. Try new things. Be honest. Live by ideals. Have some whimsy. What you do for money matters; strive to like what you do for money. (job) If you have a hobby you need a life. Use what attracts you and make what you want, matter!

Peepers are my favorite sound.

Triangle is my favorite shape.

54 is my number.

I never need to talk.

why I do what I do:

to "make you" THINK. I don't mind if your experience and perception of me "makes you" be more mindful, use your brain more, "think too much" or consider something more carefully, or differently, or moves you to be (more) thoughtful or intentional or authentic. All of these things are reasons why I do what I do and why I am the way I am. I consider these things good things, so if I'm the catalyst for anything like this, so far I think that's a good thing.

I mean my hugs

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SOC life - what you allow in, turns into what you spend your time on. Can you see it?

Resources

A link list for quick and easy clicking.

• Exhibit: the: "how do you decide what you do and don't express" doozy
• ​Kymology Website
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• ​Kymology on Youtube​

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