Okay, so I kept hearing this name, elizabeth lambert, popping up. Someone mentioned her, I think, in a forum about simplifying your life, or maybe it was home stuff. Sounded kind of fancy, honestly.
My First Steps
So, naturally, I got curious. What’s the big deal? I did a bit of digging. Found some articles, a few blog posts talking about her ‘method’. It seemed to be about… well, it wasn’t super clear at first. Something about intentional living, but tied to physical spaces. Lots of talk about specific arrangements and ‘energy flow’, which usually makes me roll my eyes a bit, but hey, I thought I’d give it a fair shot.
I figured, okay, let’s try this in one area. My workspace is always a disaster zone, so maybe this Lambert approach could fix it. The instructions I pieced together were kinda vague but seemed to involve:
- Getting rid of almost everything. Like, seriously bare.
- Only keeping things that felt ‘aligned’. Whatever that means.
- Arranging the few remaining items in a very particular way, supposedly based on light and function.
Actually Doing It
Right, so I started. Pulled everything off my desk, out of drawers. Made a huge mess, bigger than the original one. Then came the hard part: deciding what was ‘aligned’. Honestly? Most of my stuff is just… stuff. A stapler is a stapler. Does it need to align with my soul? I dunno, man.
I tried following the ‘arrangement’ idea. Put my lamp over here, my pen pot over there. It felt… staged. Like it wasn’t my desk anymore. Looked nice in a picture, probably, but totally impractical. I couldn’t find anything! My workflow was shot to pieces. Needed a paperclip, had to get up and walk across the room because its ‘aligned’ spot was apparently on a bookshelf.
This wasn’t working for me.
Not even a little bit. It felt like forcing something that just didn’t fit how I actually live and work. Too much thinking, not enough doing.
Where I Landed
After about two days of bumping into things and wasting time hunting for my own supplies, I basically put everything back. Maybe not exactly how it was before, I did get rid of some actual junk during the ‘purge’ phase. So, that’s a small win, I guess?
But the whole grand ‘elizabeth lambert method’? Nah. Not for me. Maybe it works for folks with minimalist designer chairs and empty schedules, but I’ve got projects, I’ve got clutter, I’ve got real work to do. I need my stuff where I can reach it. So, I’m back to my own slightly-less-chaotic system. It might not be fancy or ‘aligned’, but at least I can find my damn stapler.
