Can't stop me now...

I've been cleaning.

Cleaning my room, doing laundry, washing dishes, and generally organizing things. Next on the list? Scrubbing the kitchen floor.

I never really look forward to cleaning, but once I have set upon my task I find cleaning very therapeutic. This time of year it is common for people to do a lot of cleaning. Spring cleaning offers an opportunity to air out rooms that have been closed up all winter, and something about the warm breeze coming in inspires freshness in other aspects of daily life. A clean house, or apartment in my case, surrounded by the new growth of spring just makes a person happy. 

When my apartment is clean, I am more productive and creative. I sleep better, and feel more relaxed. 

This year, not only am I cleaning my apartment, but I am also trying to clean up my eating, and exercise more. I want to live more intentionally - less perusing the internet and more reading, writing, drawing, making. If my environment is clean, my body is healthy, and my brain is more focused, what is there to stop me?

This spring is an opportunity for me to set a foundation for the next few years. I want to make good habits, try new things, meet people, see places I have never seen, and be fully present for all of it. Sure, its going to be difficult. I am going to get stressed when I struggle to find a job. I am going to have days where I sleep in past noon, and watch Netflix for hours. I am going to stay up for hours playing a new game on my phone when I have work the next day. But, If I can balance the difficult days with the ones where I walk along the beach feeling the resistance of the sand along my toes, feeling the suns warmth on my face, and listening to the call of gulls and waves, I think I will be okay. If I eat healthy more days than not, and can make it up four flights of stairs without being out of breath at all, I will have been successful.

So, yeah. I've been cleaning. Cleaning, and planning. You can't stop me now.