Imagine the Life You Want to Live

The following is my response to an assignment from the book It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh about imagining the life I want to live before I get rid of all the shit that is taking over my house.

What is the life I want? I want a life that is balanced, where I feel like I am keeping up and even getting ahead and excelling in the areas of my life that are important to me. I want to be physically healthy, emotionally healthy and spiritually healthy. I want to be a great mother in that I raise my kids to be happy, healthy and independent. I want to feel great about what I accomplish at work and have it have meaning for me. I want to have a strong and happy marriage. To have all of this I need to have an amazing home base.

When I am home, I want to feel motivated and relaxed at the same time. I want to feel a sense of peace and calm, but without feeling fatigued. I want to feel like I can do anything I feel like doing and that nothing (especially a messy, cluttered house) is standing in my way. I want to spend my time having fun with my kids, both indoors and outdoors. I want to have comfortable places to relax, read and knit. I want to be able to use the computer easily in a comfortable and clean space. I want spaces that are large enough for the whole family to be together, but each sometimes doing our own thing without disturbing the others. I want a home that is easy to keep clean. I want big, open spaces that feel like there is enough room to do absolutely anything. I want everyone in my family to know where everything is and have plenty of room to put things away without it being difficult. I want things we need to be accessible and in the areas where they are needed. I want family, friends and the kids' friends to be able to come over and feel welcome and comfortable. I want my house to be private, but light and airy. I want to feel like I can be creative at home because I am unencumbered when I am home. I want to feel that I can pursue anything and everything that interests me and that nothing is holding me back.