Hello everyone, welcome to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be

a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Today is episode

192. What to do before reorganizing your home? We all get that early January itch that carries

into the dark winter of February where we just want our homes to feel good to be in. After the

holidays we take down all the decorations, we have more stuff to store because we likely got

some gifts. Things just naturally transition after the winter holidays and into a new year. It's

just the way it goes. It's in the air. Don't fight it, right? We do like a reset. But we often start in

the wrong place and I want to prevent that from happening to you today. So before you start reorganizing

your home with all the resetting and purging and moving stuff around and then maybe even considering

like moving your house entirely as an alternative to dealing with your stuff, I want you to do this one thing.

This is likely going to be a shorter episode but it is very important. You need to name what matters.

And then we're going to use two lazy genius principles for my book, The Lazy Genius Way, that are

essential for creating a home you love to be in. We'll get to those principles in a second. The first,

name, what matters. You have to know what matters in your home. So last week I walked us through how

to name what matters in 2021 by using three simple questions to help narrow the field. What could matter?

What does matter? And what matters most? This is a path that you can take in any scenario really. And

for your home, it's just super important to do. You have to know what matters most about your home in

order to organize it in a way that supports that. How to know what to keep and what to get rid of. How to

think about tending it and cleaning it on a regular basis. All of that is connected to what matters most.

All of it. There is no universal list of items you should have or not have. There is no universal

cleaning schedule that you should follow or not follow. There is no universal purpose for one home

compared to another. You have to choose for yourself. And if you start getting rid of stuff and

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