The Joy of Less Clutter

by Carol L. HannerLindsey Hardegree (’06) says she loved Z. Smith Reynolds Library so much that she sometimes hung out in the stacks just to relax, and she developed a fascination with the Library of Congress call number bague femme t47 filing system.”Sitting in the stacks around all of these books felt good,” says Hardegree. “I’ve got over 1,000 books in my own personal library, and they’re organized the way that the Wake Forest library is organized. I even call it my stacks, which just sounds so ridiculous and silly, but it brings me a lot of joy.”So perhaps it’s not surprising that she has recently become a professional home and office organizer. And not just any organizer but Georgia’s first and only Certified KonMari Method Consultant, helping clients use the “tidying” system created by Marie Kondo, a Japanese woman whose best selling book and Netflix show have become a world phenomenon. So many people applied to become consultants for Kondo’s method that she stopped taking names for her spring training seminar when the waitlist hit 500 people, Hardegree says.Hardegree’s new role comes on top of her full time (and very Pro Humanitate) job as executive director of the Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia. bague femme or jaune large She provides consulting and financial help for churches in more than 110 parishes in the Diocese of Atlanta. The foundation helps fund bague femme argent blanc outreach services focused on homelessness, hunger, generational poverty, human trafficking, refugees and those impacted by the criminal justice system.Since she began the job taille bague femme anglaise three years ago, annual giving has increased by 117%, and she rebuilt the grant making system, resulting in 45 grants totaling more than $526,000.”It’s really exciting to be able to help people serve where they feel like they’re called to serve,” Hardegree says.In 2015, she was recognized in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s inaugural “30 Under 30” after working as the first development director for the Atlanta bague femme argent motif fleur Beltline Partnership and as special events and board manager for the Alliance Theatre. She also has been a principal for Tizzy Consulting for nonprofits and small businesses since 2009. She has a master of fine arts in performing arts management from fred bague femme the University of North Carolina School bague femme or blanc cdiscount of the Arts and a master of theological studies from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin.A pantry with before and after decluttering photos from a client of Lindsey Hardegree (’06)Hardegree says Wake Forest was a formative place histoire d or bague femme or for many reasons friends who remain in her main bague femme life and the diversity of people taille normale bague femme and ideas she encountered. Her life has taken many turns she didn’t expect bague femme or perle as a theatre and English major.”What was most important about my time at Wake was not that I learned how to do X,Y,Z but rather that I learned more about myself and how to make decisions and how to work with people. Those are things that are translatable no matter what the X,Y,Z.”She can thank her friends for taille l bague femme unintentionally steering her toward Marie Kondo. “I actually for years have been helping my friends with organizing their things in their own homes just because, you know, good friends, you do it if they offer you some pizza and some wine. Seems like a good trade off,” she says with a laugh.She read Kondo’s “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” and it validated much of Hardegree’s advice to her friends. “I got to the point where I said, ‘I’m still enjoying this. I’m not tired of doing this. I’m finding this fulfilling work. Maybe I should look into this a bit more seriously and get paid in money as opposed to pizza and wine.'”That was about the time Kondo began offering certified consultant training. Hardegree was waitlisted but made it into the seminar in New York bague femme en titane City last spring with about 100 people from 20 countries. After the weekend seminar, seasoned consultants help attendees with “practice” sessions with clients until they accumulate enough hours, pass an examination and sometimes do required follow up work to earn certification. In June, she officially became Consultant No. She also belongs to the National bague femme diament Association of Productivity Organizing Professionals.A dreawer with before and after decluttering photos from a client of Lindsey Hardegree (’06)The core of the KonMari system is not just cleaning and organizing but identifying the lifestyle that fulfills you, “then very slowly, methodically examining everything that you own and deciding, ‘Does this fit into bague femme or et turquoise what I see as my ideal lifestyle'” Hardegree says. “And (Kondo’s) shorthand for that is ‘Does this bague femme arbre de vie spark joy'”Sometimes clients just have too many items in a particular place. Perhaps a hobby no longer brings joy, “and every time you see the basket with the knitting needles in it, it makes you frustrated that you never liked knitting. And maybe we can get rid of that attitude.”Some people are skeptical. “I think a lot of people get hung up on the word ‘joy,’ and they assume, ‘Well, my nouvelle bague femme toothbrush doesn’t make me joyful, so should I get rid of that’ Well, are clean teeth a part of your ideal lifestyle Then maybe your toothbrush does spark joy.”The method reframes how you see your belongings, Hardegree says.Most people declutter by attacking one room at a time, but Hardegree says the KonMari method is organized around the type of bague femme bicolore belonging, examined in a specific order, always starting with clothes. Each person comment savoir sa taille de bague femme piles every item of his or her clothing from anywhere in the house into one place and goes through one piece at a time to decide if it brings joy. This can take a few hours or dozens of hours, depending on the person.Clothing is first because people have a visceral response to it. bijoux bague femme pas cher “It really does help you get an understanding of bague femme couleur or what bague femme promo it means to spark joy,” bague femme fantaisie 54 Hardegree says.The next category is books, “which are totally different from clothing but are pretty easy for most people to sort.”Next is paper, a category that often finds people keeping documents in case even though they don need them.Fourth is “komono,” basically miscellaneous items. “It’s everything in the kitchen, everything in your bathroom, everything in your garage, your cleaning supplies, all of your dishes.”The final category is sentimental. “You can very bague femme peltier thoroughly and clearly determine what sparks joy for you because you’ve already done all the easy stuff first.”..