The Konmari method is based primarily on keeping in your home what sparks joy rather than cluttering your house with mostly and joyless needless things. The house truly is a huge mess now, in the middle of the process, but I’ve got a glimmer of hope it will all come together in the end with clean lines and warm colors, and with enough open space in an uncluttered home for love to flourish.

What dominate emotion would you like in the background of your life? Think outside of the box, go beyond the easy ones, such as love, happiness, or joy. Name it and write how that emotion would impact you if it were a dominate feeling in the background of your life. What would it make you see, hear, think? How would you act? What would it inspire you to do?

An entire storytelling/movie genre is devoted to suspense. That avid anticipation, tinged with excitement or fear, is such a compelling feeling that we go out of our way to get it. Do you enjoy suspense? How do you open yourself to surprise?

Most of us live in a place called "Elsewhere," living out our lives focused on what is missing, what needs fixing, or on a future dream.  What happens when you ask yourself, sincerely, and with genuine curiosity: What blessings are going on in the background of my life? And, even if you did not have an answer, what if you held that attitude as you went through the day?