Sunshine, warm weather, birds chirping\u2026I LOVE Springtime and for the first time all year we have finally gotten warm, spring weather here and that just makes me HAPPY! \u00a0However, with the warm weather finally beginning I am reminded that it is also time to do our Spring Cleaning! And the truth is that I don\u2019t love to clean. I don\u2019t enjoy facing the mounds of clutter that have caused my room to be like an obstacle course to get through. I don\u2019t like cleaning out my closet and having to face the countless stacks of papers that have accumulated in every corner of each room.\u00a0 The truth is that I absolutely dread it!<\/p>\n
Yet when I grit my teeth, dig in, and just get it done, I am always so unbelievably glad that I did. \u00a0Because, let\u2019s face it, there is little in life that feels quite as fantastic as walking into a room and having it be completely clean and organized. It is such a peaceful, amazing feeling. \u00a0Our\u00a0whole psyche is lifted when our surroundings are clean and organized. \u00a0Our stress is lifted, we feel more productive, our energy increases, and we just feel HAPPIER!<\/p>\n
“For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.”<\/span> – Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n And who doesn’t love having more hours in your day?! \u00a0So spring cleaning here we all come!<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunshine, warm weather, birds chirping\u2026I LOVE Springtime and for the first time all year we have finally gotten warm, spring weather here and that just makes me HAPPY! \u00a0However, with the warm weather finally beginning I am reminded that it is also time to do our Spring Cleaning! And the truth is that I don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,500,46,1637,1177,735,5206,4908,249,51,2464,65,55,180,3617,53,13471,48,1180,349,1183,1272,13473,112,7628,13472,275,608,8881],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-clean","tag-clutter","tag-declutter","tag-dig-in","tag-dread","tag-energy","tag-family","tag-get-it-done","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-just-do-it","tag-motivation","tag-obstacle-course","tag-organization","tag-organized","tag-peace","tag-peaceful","tag-productive","tag-psyche","tag-self-improvement","tag-springtime","tag-stacks-of-paper","tag-stress","tag-sunshine","tag-warm-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}