KonMari and running an online business have THIS in common….

It’s all a matter of essentialism – of business decluttering – to get you as streamlined as you can possibly be – which means as reliable as possible about checking off those “have to happen by end of day” to-do lists.

You see....

• I wasn’t always an essentialist. 
• I didn’t always have this ability to hone in on the most important thing in my to-do list and just do that. 
• I wasn’t always the person who knew how to take breaks and to sit down and to stop go-go-going.

But minimalism taught me that.

And do you know what that looks like from the business end? (That’s the level of business KonMari I’m diving into today!)

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Transcript

This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about what KonMari and running an online business have in common.

Did you ever think that minimalism and business could go together? Like, decluttering and business productivity?

I actually think that the confidence that everything your business needs got done – whether it’s by YOU or team today – has a TON to do with how MUCH you put on your CEO calendar.

And your TEAM’S calendars. 

Plus how many tech stacks are on their maintenance list.

Plus how many platforms they’re posting to each day.

It’s all a matter of essentialism – of business decluttering – to get YOU as streamlined as you can possibly be – which means as reliable as possible about checking off those “have to happen by end of day” to-do lists.

This is how my background in minimalism and decluttering plays into my views on business and personal productivity today.

You see, I wasn’t always an essentialist. 

I didn’t always have this ability to hone in on the most important thing in my to-do list and just do that. I wasn’t always the person who knew how to take breaks and to sit down and to stop go-go-going.

But minimalism taught me that.

• Minimalism grounded my personal philosophies of business productivity and turned them upside down.
• Minimalism taught me that it’s not about how much you do, it’s about how grounded you *feel* as you’re moving through life. Day by day, hour by hour.
• Minimalism rooted me so deeply in “do I like this? do I need it” that I started applying those questions to even my weekly calendar appointments and family commitments and business tasks - and that’s when everything changed.

Because minimalism - true minimalism - is about clearing away the excess *so that* you can focus on the glorious life underneath.

Actually *enjoying* your daily experience of living with “just enough” and without all that pickup.

And you know what that looks like from the business end? 

• It’s the “do I really need to do this right now or is it just busy work.” 
• It’s asking yourself, “Do I need some white space in my brain right now, or on my weekly calendar?”
• It’s the mentality of “if this way of scheduling doesn’t light me up, it’s in my metaphorical trash bin. On to the next thing.”

Because minimalism, decluttering, roots *every single thing* we do. I’m not kidding.

• If you can learn to look at a room and see where it needs white space, you can do that for your project calendar in the monthly view.
• If you can learn to look at a room and see where it needs tidying up, you can do that for your business backend and systems.
• If you can learn to sit down in that cleared-out room, and *decide* what you want out of your life next, then you can do that dream-lining for your business, too.

It’s all about decluttering. All about mental minimalism.

And that’s why the roots of my business and personal productivity philosophies - everything I’m going to teach you - are irrevocably shaped by my pursuit of minimalism.

So no, I’m not going to make you do a whole house KonMari - but you might want to do one on your business. Like all the money and service things you’re paying for.

That’s what *I* did last year - used “recession budgeting” as my excuse - to majorly trim my tech stack and pivot my business model while I was at it! 

See now, that’s minimalist business AND minimalist money for the win.

(And in case you’re curious, I consolidated a whole bunch of courses into one or two audio feeds and ditched my ORIGINAL course hosting service; streamlined my content delivery, which eliminated a few different platforms; then followed all THOSE cuts up with a podcast hosting swap that seriously cut down on my “where is that episode??” time each week. Hooray!)

Are you ready for a minimized version of work-from-home business? Including in your monthly operating costs, what you put on your weekly schedule, AND how you deliver your offers or programs? 

‘Cause that’s the level of business KonMari I’m talking about today.