“Why are we doing this?”
You start with a rough idea:
We need to move to a bigger house, because we need more space to grow as a family.The goal of this phase is to find a clear, concise purpose statement:
The purpose of improving our living space is so that our daily lives can flow with ease and joy and peace, and getting rid of useless clutter is one simple way of doing that right now.
You start with a vague set of priorities (different for each person), and a vague set of constraints.
The goal of this phase is to have a concrete shared list of principles and constraints, that everyone can commit to and honor.
Principles:
1. Make do with what we have.
2. Fewer better things.
3. Do not assume we "need to have X".
Constraints:
1. We will be done two Sundays from now.
2. We will spend no more than $250.
“What do we want?”
The goal of this phase is to have a clear, concrete image of what “wild success” looks like.
“How are things now?”
The goal of this phase is to see, really see, the state of things as they are now.
“What are some ways we can accomplish this?”
The goal of this phase is to produce as many ideas as possible.
Visible, physical actions.
Start with general groupings, break it down until you get to “surely doables”, then stop.
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What constraints will you commit to?
What firm deadline?
What firm budget?
Find or create images that evoke (not necessarily explain) what success will look like.
Quite simply, close your eyes and daydream.
Refine your dream by asking questions.
If you’re working with someone, take part in each other’s dream:
Gather as many people as you can for this stage, to get as many ideas as you can.
Start throwing ideas out there as they come.
Four simple Rules:
We want to move because we don’t have enough space for our stuff.
We want to move because we feel our place isn’t nice enough. It doesn’t reflect us.
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
― Seneca“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dalí
Move to a bigger house.
Get rid of clutter & simplify.
Find the top three things about our current home that complicate our lives, and change them.
Maybe it’s no so much the space, but what we choose to do in it. We might be happier if we focused on finding activities we all enjoy. Have friends over more often? Games as a family?
Maybe we do need to move, but not to a bigger house, but a different city? A small town? A different country? Maybe there’s a place for us that just fits with our vision of a more peaceful, wholesome life?
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Make do with what we have
Less is more, especially if it’s fewer better things.
Challenge assumptions, especially the assumption that “Oh, we simply need to have” some particular thing.
“The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest and, therefore, when most was required of imagination in order to build at all.”
― Frank Lloyd White“I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book… I picked up up a book at random, opened it, saw “gently weeps,” then laid the book down again and started the song.”
― George Harrison
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Use “What if” questions to trigger the imagination.
Why?
Hmm, a different way of saying that is: because we have more stuff than space.
Why?
Because we often buy things to try to improve our lives.
Why?
Because we feel our lives are too chaotic. We can never find what we need, we are constantly cleaning but there’s always more.
It’s just too much!
Why?
Ah! Because we have too much crap!
Vicious cycle. We don’t need more space (we’ll probably fill it anyway). We need fewer things, and a better life flow.
Why?
Because I’m ashamed of the state of it when guests come over.
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