Beautiful Messes

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I make messes ALL THE TIME, and I tend to leave them lay, not because I like the mess, but I run out of time, or some other thing comes along that needs my attention, or I’m just to tired to deal with it, and then something else happens, and so on… And that’s how my “home office” became the dumping ground for “all the things” over the last several months.

I started a new business as a consultant with Beautycounter in the fall. If you’re not familiar, Beautycounter is a skincare company, with a mission of getting safer products into the hands of everyone. “Formulate, advocate, & educate – that’s our motto for creating clean beauty products that truly perform while holding ourselves to unparalleled standards of safety. Why? It’s really simple: beauty should be good for you.”

I was having a hard time focusing on “working” in my ever-so-messy office. Every time I looked up, in every direction, I saw STUFF. Clutter. It needed to go!!! In January, I began clearing out all the things I didn’t need, and reorganizing what I wanted to stay. Then a funny thing happened. On a business coaching call, it was suggested I rethink the business I created a few years ago, (then closed when it became too much work) only modified to fit my life now. So some of those things I was packing up, needed to stay, out and easily accessible.

Balance. How to we find or achieve balance everyday? Is it even possible? Somedays are just plain messy. Somedays are simply beautiful. After this past year, I’ve decided it’s best to just take them all, no matter what. I was challenged to find 3 things to be thankful for every day for the first week of February. I did, and I’m continuing that for as long as I can. If you’re considering this challenge for yourself, try it for a week… and it doesn’t have to be big things… I was thankful the day my laundry was caught up! Oh, and I did rethink and reopen my custom sign business… one more thing to be thankful for this month, because being creative does feed my soul. This quote from Jennifer Lee is going on my office wall!

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Half-Korean, half-American, wife, mom to 5 and "dog-mom" to two very spoiled French Bulldogs. Raised by my paternal grandparents, survived a teenage pregnancy, a brief terrible first marriage, finding and marrying my soul-mate, adopting 3 girls from Haiti, and then finally, adopting my granddaughter to raise as my own, just as my grandmother raised me. (I can hear my favorite high-school English teacher telling me how that was more than a run-on sentence) Here to share my story, with the hope that someone out there needs to know they are "not the only one, and that redemption and daily gratitude are possible.

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