{"id":340,"date":"2018-08-05T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2018-08-05T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:50:14","slug":"follow-these-simple-directions-for-successful-downsizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/follow-these-simple-directions-for-successful-downsizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow these simple directions for successful downsizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re downsizing, be sure you\u00a0now where you\u2019re headed before you start!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Downsizing can be a lot like driving with a car full of screaming kids. If you don\u2019t know exactly where you\u2019re going <em>before <\/em>you set out, you won\u2019t get far.<\/p>\n<p>Would you begin a road trip by waiting until you got into the car to ask each child where they wanted to go? Of course not!\u00a0 Five minutes like that and everyone would start having meltdowns. (Including you!)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, you\u2019d plan the trip and make sure everyone was on board before you got going. When the kids got restless, you\u2019d keep them focused on where you wanted to go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re thinking about downsizing, it\u2019s equally critical to think about where you want to arrive at the end of your journey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start going through your stuff with no clear plan and you can easily find yourself lost in the backroads of memories. You\u2019ll have a very tough time getting back on track from that place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you know not just where you\u2019re going, but why, deciding what you want to take and what you want to leave is easy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before you start downsizing, decide where you want to go. Think about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where do you want to end up at the end of this process?<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s your objective in taking this journey?<\/li>\n<li>How do you want to feel when you arrive?<\/li>\n<li>What do you need to have \u2013 and what don\u2019t you need when you get there?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Begin with the end in mind and you\u2019re sure not only to get there faster, but to\u00a0have a much more enjoyable trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; If you&#8217;re downsizing, be sure you\u00a0now where you\u2019re headed before you start! Downsizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}