What rebuilding my own front door taught me about the clutter we stop seeing.
I teach people how to clear clutter from their lives. So it’s only fair to tell you what I found on my own website this week.
Clutter revealed
For years, I hesitated to share my website link. I couldn’t have told you exactly why.
The site worked, mostly. But it felt like a junk drawer — the menu had grown to more than a dozen items, there were sign-up forms from three different seasons of my business, and somewhere along the way it had stopped saying anything clearly.
So this month I decided to practice what I preach and clean my own digital house.
Here’s what I found buried in the workings: one line of code, added years ago, that had been hiding my website’s entire header. My logo. My name. Hidden — on every page, all this time. I never knew it was there.
I’ve been thinking about that line of code ever since. Because it isn’t really a story about websites.
Nothing on that site got cluttered on purpose. Every menu item made sense when it was added. Every sign-up form belonged to something I was trying at the time.
That’s how it happens in our homes, too — no one decides to have a full attic. It arrives one reasonable decision at a time, until one day the accumulation is hiding the very thing that matters most. In my case, quite literally my own name.
Less is more.
So I didn’t redesign my website. Mostly, I removed. The menu went from fourteen items to five. The competing sign-up forms became one. And now, when you arrive, the site asks you a single question — the one my whole business is built around at this moment in time:
If something happened to you tomorrow, would your family know where to look?
A few things I learned along the way, in case you’re circling a project like this yourself:
Clutter accumulates one sensible choice at a time. That’s why it’s nobody’s fault — and why it takes a deliberate afternoon to reverse.
Findable beats perfect. My site isn’t perfect. But a visitor can now find what matters in five seconds, and that’s the standard worth meeting.
And you’re not too old for this. I spent this week untangling caching gremlins and rebuilding page sections at an age when I’m supposed to be intimidated by technology. I wasn’t fast. I was stubborn. Stubborn works fine.
Free and clear
If you’d like to see the results, come visit: https://herlifehacks.com .
While you’re there, you’ll meet the new front door — my free Vital Legal Papers Checklist, one page that helps you gather the important papers your family would need, so they’re findable when it matters. It’s the first step of everything I teach, and it’s yours for an email address.
So, let me ask you the question I had to ask myself: what’s one thing in your life that’s been hidden — not by anyone’s bad decision, but by years of perfectly reasonable ones? I’d love to hear. I read every reply.