I'm spending March getting lighter
A three part spring reset—starting with the physical
There’s a word that keeps surfacing for me lately. Simplicity. While I move through my yearly, quarterly, and monthly planning rituals, I keep coming back to a single thought (nay, feeling?) that I seem to be craving more than ever.
Last year was heavy in so many different ways that I can still feel the phantom weight aching my shoulders. It’s probably why my soul is craving order, simplicity, and security in a way it never has before. While the slowness of February surfaced some old anxieties, it was also a reminder that there’s still a lot of 2025 cobwebs to sweep up in corners of my mind I haven’t visited in a while.
It’s easy to reduce simplicity to a single image: a cleared surface, an empty shelf, less stuff. And yes, that’s part of it. But when I actually sat down and mapped out where I wanted more simplicity in my life, the picture got more interesting. Clear values and priorities. Cleaner goals. More authenticity in how I express what I’m actually feeling. Delegating more. Less noise in every sense of the word.
Which brings me to March and what I’m actually doing with all this. With both western new years and lunar new years out of the way, March feels like the right moment to step into a new chapter. The shift in season always feels like a welcome change as well. As I’m finally shaking off the last of that sleepy winter feeling, here’s how I’m breaking down my spring cleaning:
Physical space - Aka decluttering and reorganizing so that I feel more set up for the year
Digital space - Making sure my files are organized, I’m culling any unused apps and subscriptions, and moving everything to external storage options so that my devices aren’t bogged down
Mental space - This is where we get to those cobwebs. Are there any unclosed loops still hanging around? How do we wrap them up?
The plan is to break this out into 3 articles where we tackle each of those spaces individually. I’m going to be sharing how exactly I’m planning on resetting, tips that I’ve learned over the years, and the feeling we want coming out of it. Starting with…
Physical space
Since last year, I’ve been living with a bit of an ambiguous mindset when it comes to my physical space. Keeping it cozy and visually inspiring still matters to me but I’m also planning for an international move, which means that at some point, everything has to go. That transitional feeling has left me feeling like I’m one foot in and one foot out of my current apartment.
What this means in practice is that I’m being more intentional than ever about what I bring into my home. Everything now passes through an additional filter: will I actually take this with me? And when it comes to culling, I’m doing it with a lot more intensity than I might have in previous years.
Decluttering
When it comes to the actual process of decluttering, I personally find it more effective to go category by category rather than room by room. This small distinction gives me a more functional look at the things I own rather than just looking at where they’re stored. For example, I’ll go through all of my filming gear as one category. That way I can easily see where I may have excess to trim or gaps to fill.
From there, the question for each item is simple: do I actually need this? Not “might I need this someday” or “I should probably keep this just in case”—but genuinely need it, use it, want it in my life.
If the answer isn’t a clear yes, it goes.
Part of the perks of being a paid subscriber is that you get expanded versions of certain articles! Below the paywall, you’ll find:
A decluttering game I’ve tried and loved
How I make decisions around what to keep and what to cull
My thought process around reorganizing after the cull
The feeling I chase with any reset
