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Are We Done Yet? 3 Reasons We’re Still Loving Life On The Road
Modern Minimalism

Are We Done Yet? 3 Reasons We’re Still Loving Life On The Road

After 3 years on the road, most people are expecting us to wrap it up and settle down. But here’s why we’re not quite ready yet.

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The One Decluttering Rule You Have Probably Never Heard Of
Modern Minimalism

The One Decluttering Rule You Have Probably Never Heard Of

Sticking to this rule is the easiest way to adopt a minimalist lifestyle. You can apply it to anything and everything!

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How to Adopt a Minimalist Lifestyle (Even if You Love Stuff)
Modern Minimalism

How to Adopt a Minimalist Lifestyle (Even if You Love Stuff)

How to become a minimalist can seem like a crash course into scarcity and deprivation. But that’s simply NOT true!

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How to Clear Sentimental Clutter (Without Feeling Guilty)
Modern Minimalism

How to Clear Sentimental Clutter (Without Feeling Guilty)

Remember: Decluttering sentimental items is a process. But saving fewer items will give more meaning to the ones you do keep. Here’s how!

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Minimalists, Here are the Top 5 Souvenirs You Won’t Feel Guilty About
Modern Minimalism

Minimalists, Here are the Top 5 Souvenirs You Won’t Feel Guilty About

When browsing gift shops looking for the best souvenirs, ask yourself this one question to make sure whatever you buy fits into your minimalist lifestyle.

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5 Secrets to Staying Organized in a Small Space
Modern Minimalism

5 Secrets to Staying Organized in a Small Space

If you’ve ever lived in a tiny home, you know what a pain it can be to find room for all that stuff! Here are the best tips to stay organized in a small space, whether you are trying to downsize, or make the most of temporary housing.

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The Root Cause of Clutter (and How to Stop it Now)
Modern Minimalism

The Root Cause of Clutter (and How to Stop it Now)

Our struggle with clutter doesn’t mean we need to organize more. And it’s definitely not because we don’t declutter enough. In fact, decluttering happens long before you bring an item into your home.

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All the Best Tips to Declutter Your Beauty Stash
Modern Minimalism

All the Best Tips to Declutter Your Beauty Stash

Time for a declutter session…beauty style! Follow along as I share my guilt-free process for carefully sorting through your beauty supplies, tossing what’s expired, and saying goodbye to colors and formulas you don’t love.

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How to Declutter Your Wedding Dress (With No Regrets!)
Modern Minimalism

How to Declutter Your Wedding Dress (With No Regrets!)

The only thing I regret about giving away my wedding dress is waiting so long! If you’re thinking of parting with your own dress, here’s how to declutter such a sentimental item (without feeling bad!) as well as a list of places begging to accept your donation.

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10 Quick and Easy Areas You Can Declutter in 10 Minutes Tops
Modern Minimalism

10 Quick and Easy Areas You Can Declutter in 10 Minutes Tops

Watching Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show and feeling completely overwhelmed? Start with these 10 hot spots you can tackle in 10 minutes or less!

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Filing Cabinet Declutter: How to Organize All Your Important Paperwork
Modern Minimalism

Filing Cabinet Declutter: How to Organize All Your Important Paperwork

Tired of overflowing files? So was I! Here’s the two-step process I used to physically AND digitally turn my overflowing filing cabinet into a functional and organized system—and how you can too.

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Overwhelmed with Life? 7 Strategies to Simplify Right Now
Mindset + Motivation

Overwhelmed with Life? 7 Strategies to Simplify Right Now

Are you over-committed? Stressed? Exhausted? Or just plain need a break? These practical strategies simplify your life so you have the freedom to streamline your schedule, create more margin for rest, and tackle your to-do list with laser focus.

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10 Kitchen Gadgets Every Cook Needs (and 6 They Don’t!)
Modern Minimalism

10 Kitchen Gadgets Every Cook Needs (and 6 They Don’t!)

Stop wasting money on the latest and greatest kitchen gadgets! Seriously — a contraption that slices your bananas? A huge griddle that takes forever to clean? Focus on these 10 essentials to help you be more efficient in the kitchen and keep cabinets clutter-free.

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3 Questions to Help Downsize Your Book Collection
Modern Minimalism

3 Questions to Help Downsize Your Book Collection

Love to collect books, but tired of the piles and clutter they create in your home? These 3 questions will help organize AND downsize your book collection, without sacrificing quality reads!

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✦ Let’s fight depression + anxiety
✦ Through sustainable strategies, structure + self-care
✦ RV Life @openroading | Founder @brainbooklibrary
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Kalyn Brooke | Life Management for Mental Health
HEADS UP: I’m heeding my own advice and taking a HEADS UP: I’m heeding my own advice and taking a break from this account. 

I’ve felt the tug to step back and reassess what the content here looks like, it’s purpose, and whether it’s time to pivot or not.

I do know one thing—I’ll still be on Instagram! 

I’d love to have you follow the brand new @brainbooklibrary account. Even if you’re not a member, I’ll be sharing allll the productivity and planning tips there that you can use with any tool. But if you’re partial to paper planners, you’re going to be in for a treat.

And of course, I’ll still be active on @openroading as we travel up the west coast and share what full-time RV life really looks like.

I hope to see you again here at some point. But until then, I hope to connect with you on those other accounts! 

Thank you so much for being here. I APPRECIATE YOU. 

Most of all, I hope you give yourself permission to heed that nudge if you’ve needed a break too. Clarity comes when we remove ourselves from the situation long enough to approach it again with fresh perspective. 

Love you all! 🤍
I WAS INTERVIEWED FOR A PODCAST! I always assumed I WAS INTERVIEWED FOR A PODCAST!

I always assumed podcast interviews were for really important people that run multi-million dollar companies. Not for little ol’ me. 🤣 

So I was extremely honored that
@dr.laurencook from The Boardroom Brain invited me to be a guest. We had the most delightful conversation that I know you are going to LOVE!

We talked about: 

➕What it looks like to run a business when you battle depression
➕How to fall in love with Mondays (for real!)
➕Where to start when you’re completely overwhelmed by your to do list

…and more! 

Grab your headphones and listen on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Music.🎧

I’d love to know what you think after you listen! ❤️
Have you ever waited over an hour to respond to a Have you ever waited over an hour to respond to a text? Or let a week go by without replying to an email? 📱

As much as you’re tempted to, you don’t need to start the conversation with “SO sorry for my delay.” 📣

All this does is perpetuate an unreasonable standard of responsiveness.🙅

Who gets to decide the appropriate response time while you are living your life? 🧐

Just because our phones are by our side 24/7, we don’t owe our undivided attention to them. 🧘‍♀️

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that real-life community and experiences are more important than our phones. 🌵

So when you hear that buzz coming from the small black rectangle in your pocket in the middle of a conversation or chore or work project, remind yourself that you don’t have to answer it. 🚫

You can get to it later. On YOUR time. Without an apology attached to it.✨

▶︎ Do you start your replies with an apology if you don't think you've responded quickly enough? 
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It’s okay if you skip a day. 😅 I know that p It’s okay if you skip a day. 😅

I know that permission slip doesn’t jive with the unrelenting pressure you put on yourself to maintain a perfect streak of habits. Because if you’re anything like me, the moment you “break the chain” is the moment you give up on that habit entirely. 

I mean, I almost threw my journal in the TRASH. 😱📔🗑️

At the beginning of the year, I purchased a regular planner and turned it into a daily journal.🖊️ 

I'm proud to say that I kept this habit... for about 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀. Eventually, I began skipping an evening here and there. 🥱

Now, my “journal” looks like a puzzle that isn’t quite complete. I’ve already shattered my vision of me, next January, looking back over an entire year of memories. 💔

What is the point of keeping up with it now, when I’ve already missed so much? 🤔

Maybe that sounds silly, but I know there’s someone out there who struggles with this all-or-nothing mentality too! 👌

The thing is, we can’t rate the success of our habits by a “streak.” We can certainly use that data to see how consistent we are.🔥 

But if we:

- skipped day 5 of our workout program,
- forgot to write down our daily gratitude list,
- or missed doing the Wordle of the day,

𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆. ✨ 

We have to remember that 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱. 💯

What really matters is that 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 when you miss a day. Because 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 has nothing to do with yesterday. 📅

▶ Are there any habits you’ve been subconsciously applying this all-or-nothing mentality to?
I’ve never really shared this before. But the I’ve never really shared this before. 

But the reason I’m so passionate about sharing organizational systems, productivity strategies, habits, routines, and goals is because they are critical to my own mental health.

If you’re new, you might not know that I battle depression and anxiety on almost a daily basis. I wake up never knowing which days will be good or bad. 

And while I extend myself a lot of grace, I also don’t want my struggles to control me. 

✨STRUCTURE ✨helps put the pieces back together when I feel like I’m falling apart. 

That’s what I want to do here. To share the same topics I’ve been sharing for the last few years, but also bring mental wellness into the conversation as the foundational WHY behind everything else.

Because if I’m being truly honest, I can’t help but notice its subtle existence behind all of the content I share... I’ve just never called it out before because it feels really scary and vulnerable! 

And yet, I’ve never more sure that this is the next right step.

Even if a struggle with mental illness isn't part of your story, we all experience challenging days where we're just trying to survive. You are always welcome here.

But if you’ve been waiting for someone who gets how hard it can be to do something as simple as take a shower some days, who knows you’re not lazy, and understands the need to balance doing hard things with grace and rest, I'm here to guide you in the right direction... and to help you feel a little less alone.💕

➤ If any part of this message resonated with you, leave a comment so I can meet you!
Does it sound a little crazy to bribe yourself to Does it sound a little crazy to bribe yourself to complete housework? 🤑

Maybe...

But it’s also effective. ✨

Wasn’t it Mary Poppins who said,
“In every job that must be done
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap!
The job's a game.”

We respond to incentives. So find the fun and reward yourself after the task is done. 🪙

But pick something that TRULY motivates you. 🏃

It could be watching another Netflix episode or reading another chapter of the book that left you on a cliff-hanger. Maybe you want to soak in a hot bath, go for a walk, treat yourself to a brownie, order delivery, or light your brand new candle. 🛀

Whatever inspires happiness at the mere thought of doing that thing, choose that as your reward. And see if you don’t get more done when you dangle the adult equivalent of a chore chart sticker in front of yourself. 😄 
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