There’s a category of stuff most people never talk about.
Not the things you love.
Not the things you’re ready to throw out.
The things in between.
The craft supplies from a phase you were in. The kitchen gadget you used twice. The clothes still hanging in the closet because you bought them for a version of your life that never quite happened.
Not yes. Not no.
Limbo.
And here’s the thing about limbo items: they cost you something every time you see them.
Not money. Not space, exactly.
Energy.
Every unresolved maybe is a tiny open loop in your brain. And humans are not great at leaving loops open. We carry them.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because I’ve been going through all of our stuff.
All of it.
And what I noticed wasn’t that I had too much stuff.
It was that I had too many maybes.
Once I had a clear goal to hold things up to, the maybes collapsed. Instantly. No debate, no guilt spiral, no “but maybe someday.”
Just a clean, quiet no.
And I realized: this works on everything.
Not just stuff.
Commitments. Projects. Habits. Relationships with people and things.
A clear goal doesn’t add pressure to your life. It removes it.
You stop negotiating with yourself. The goal thinks for you.
So here’s the question I’ll leave you with:
What’s been sitting in limbo for you?
Pick it up. Hold it up to where you actually want to go.
Yes or no.
You probably already know.
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