When we facilitate a regular family meeting, we add a valuable tool to help us manage our household efficiently, effectively, and with incredibly less friction. The benefits of a family meeting include reducing confusion and fatigue while introducing rhythm and cohesion. A family meeting provides us with a foundation upon which we can synchronize our schedules, outline expectations, collectively establish priorities, and discuss and design our objectives for our family and our home.

If you’ve been cohabitating with Justin Case, I invite you to consider the ultimate cost of your relationship. I invite you to consider if this alliance is serving your higher self. I invite you to consider that if you need something in the future, your future self is capable and will provide.

We spend the first half of our lives accumulating things that we’ve been convinced were needed or necessary. We spend the second half trying to escape from them.

We think the tangible items that we’ve surrounded ourselves with are giving us direction. We think by having a visual reminder we will do what we need to do and eventually get where we think we’re supposed to be going. We’re afraid that by letting go of those discernable clues our dreams will just shrivel up and die.

We all possess gifts that may not seem of importance to us but would add incredible value to the life of another. Giving and receiving is a universal expression and a key ingredient that helps keep us aligned and in balance. We must understand that the art of life is not about the acquisition of things. The art of life is the reciprocity between one another.

With everyone currently at home and in each other’s space considerably more than anyone could have ever anticipated, let’s begin to identify some techniques and strategies to help keep the happiness factor alive and flowing.

While traveling alone this past Christmas, I misplaced my phone.

I had it on the drive to the airport. But when you arrive at 0’dark-thirty along with everyone else traveling for the holiday, it can be a bit of a cluster at the terminal. While approaching, we made a move for my drop-off sooner than I had anticipated. It was dark, and it was raining, and there were cars everywhere. In order to keep it moving, I jumped out, grabbed my bag, said my goodbyes, my ride pulled away, and I ran into the abyss.

When our lives are cluttered, whether it be our homes, our inboxes, our piles, our finances, our minds, or our direction, it is because we have unmade decisions, or we have not identified our priorities or our motivation behind organizing it. Once we define our motivation behind wanting to be rid of the clutter, we then need to use that motivation as fuel to ignite and launch our decisions into action.