What are you weighing? ~ Ready to clear the clutter & cultivate your best life?

Throwing my scale out a couple weeks ago really got me thinking about this question. What things in my life am I weighing? What I’m really asking here is what am I measuring? Tracking? Counting? Are the areas of my life where I’m tracking progress and growth worthy of so much of my attention, time and energy? Or is it time to reevaluate and perhaps start tracking growth in other areas?

Clearly, 41 called, and she’s ready for a heart to heart. 😉

In September I attended Better Homes & Gardens annual Stylemaker Event in New York City! It is such an incredible honor to be named a Stylemaker for a second year.

Every year, BH&G invites an amazing group of creatives in the home design, fashion, food, and garden online space to attend an amazing one day event. And somehow my name made it on to the invite list again this year?! And oh my gosh, I’ll take it! But I’ll never take these special opportunities for granted! This stuff only happens because of you all – so from the bottom of my heart, thank you!

Here I am totally engaged in a conversation. 😉

And then something must have really surprised me?! Ha!

It was a whirlwind trip to the city, and I enjoyed every. single. minute!

This year’s event was truly incredible!

But there was a moment during one session in particular where I felt like I was absolutely meant to hear that speaker’s message. Ever have a moment like that? Where you feel it in your bones that you were supposed to be right where you are at a specific moment in time?

This moment was like that for me.

Sitting in the audience in September, a month before my 41st birthday, surrounded by creative people I admire, Patty Morrissey started sharing her story, and it resonated so deeply. It was both inspiring and affirming.

Her message focused on the importance of clearing the clutter in our lives to make space for cultivating creativity. And while you could definitely take that literally, there’s such deep meaning here.

Patty went on to talk about the importance of defining your personal Life KPIs or Key Performance Indicators. I’ve heard people speak on this in a more abstract woo-woo way, but Patty really did a great job of putting this message into an actionable plan.

Because I know this photo above is a bit hard to read, let me summarize below:

Life KPIs help us measure success on our own terms. When we create a personalized scorecard, we identify our priorities and clarify boundaries between our values and those others impose upon us.

• Reflect. Imagine you’re 100 years old looking back on your life. Did you have a good life? What are the indicators that you lived well? What does it mean to live well?
• Choose up to five areas of your life where success matters to you. – example: Health, Spirituality, Love, Friendship, Family, Career, Travel, Security etc.
• Identify one quantifiable metric for each area of your life that you selected. example: Family – Number of meals with family. or Friendship – Number of visits with friends.
• Track these metrics on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.

I LOVED this message so much! I truly believe in the importance of creating your own definition of success. Because when we don’t define success in our own terms, we can easily get caught up in a game of comparison focusing only on superficial metrics.

And in today’s social media driven world it’s so refreshing to be reminded to continue valuing and measuring what matters most to us.

Creating my Life KPIs has helped me to refocus my attention on the right things, let go of the things that were draining, and run towards the life experiences that bring me joy.

I don’t need a scale to track moving my body, spending time outside and fun time with my best girl.

If you also want to clear the clutter and cultivate your best life I encourage you to follow Patti Morrissey on Instagram!