I've been missing cause I needed to clean my office

Hey Hey Reader,

Okay, so I owe you a little honesty today.

I've been gone for a couple of weeks... no Tips Tuesday video, no newsletter... and I want to tell you why, because I think there's something in it for you too.

If you prefer the video version, here you go 👇🏽

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Sometimes life is out here testing you on it. I've talked before about how rest is revolutionary, and how sometimes you just have to accept that you have capacity for 1 million things when your list has 5 million on it.
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Well.
That's been my life lately.

My energy has been off.
My focus has been gone.
And I kept trying to figure out what was happening.

And then I realized — my office is a mess.

I know, I know. Bear with me.

Clutter competes for your attention even when you're not actively looking at it.

I'll be in the middle of working, and then suddenly I'm staring at a random receipt, wondering what it was for, or remembering I need to check the balance on an Amazon gift card I forgot I had.

That is not a productive use of my brain. But that's what a messy space does... it just quietly grabs at you, even when you think you're ignoring it.

When my office is clean, and everything has a place?

I feel better.
I do better.

It's really that simple.

And maybe you've been feeling some kind of way lately, too. If you're in NC (or the sout for that matter) with me, you KNOW the weather has been completely unhinged — eighties one day, forties and pouring the next, tornado warnings, and this morning it's 30 degrees with people reporting snow.
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My body does not know what to do with itself. The changes in barometric pressure alone have me fighting headaches and migraines, so I know the weather isn't helping.

But here's what I keep coming back to: we can't control everything, but we can control our environment.

And sometimes the most productive thing you can do is clean up your space and give yourself a soft reset — a small, intentional act that shifts your surroundings so your mind can follow.

That's your tip this week. Not a new tool. Not a marketing strategy.

Just this: if something feels off and you can't put your finger on it, look around you. Clean the thing. Reset the space. Give yourself some grace.

I'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled Tips Tuesday content — tech, systems, all of it.

Unless cleaning my office doesn't work... 😅