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Analysis of Discarding and Keeping
- Pain Potentially Consequential of Discarding Clutter
- Cost to Repurchase something I discard — Repurchasing something I discard rarely happens. Additionally, the cost of storing and transporting something is probably equivalent the cost of repurchasing but discarding it doesn’t have any of the psychological baggage effects. TRUE!
- Time to refind the item to repurchase if feel need it after discarding the item. – This is probably equivalent to finding the item amongst heaps of clutter, but true some items cannot be found but some items that discard, you don’t want to ever find again!
- Fear of discarding something unpleasant will cause me to repeat that unpleasant experience. — This is the “vacuum” idea that if I discard the flyers from Los Angeles rubbish apartments, or psychology meetings, or the like, I will then repeat those to “fill the void” of that negative space. This idea is that if I keep the unpleasant reminder, it won’t happen again. To some extent this may be true, but it would be very painful to keep and so many unpleasant reminders that you dont’ get away from the spaces that caused the unpleasantness and make pleasant memories.
- Erroneous thought that discarding something may discard a “part of me”. – This is unlikely because I put so much scrutiny into discarding items and it is illogical because some random book doesn’t define my identity. True!
- Pain Consequential of Keeping Clutter
- Physically trapped — can’t move as easily
- COST — cost of storage of keeping clutter and the cost of moving vans or even cars of moving clutter is abominable and gross.
- Overwhelm — massive stress simply from keeping track of all the clutter and sorting it and storing it and transporting it! It’s a massive headache and overwhelming source of pain!
- Doubt Self — Yes, keeping so many clutter belongings does cause self-doubt because you start to become uncertain if those past bits of rubbish are “me”, when of course they are not. If I pick up a book that turns out to be absolute rubbish, I am not that book.
- Anxiety and stress of keeping all the stuff.
- My digital files go neglected — THIS IS THE BIGGEST Incentive for eliminating clutter. I live in my computer. I’ve written a ton and I study and take tons of notes and almost everything is digital for me. If I have a ton of material space clutter, my digital files naturally (because of their being a constant amount of time in the universe) go
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2010/07/09 at 4:18 PM Comments (0)
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The whole “work hours” thing is a foreign concept to me. Maybe because I just don’t make a distinction between work and play, or (most likely) I just always work. Sometimes I wake up and start work at 2am. Sometimes I just don’t ever go to sleep and take a nap in the middle of the day.
It’s easier for me, I realize, to just say my sleep patterns (the times where I’m not working) than the times I am working; I sometimes sleep around the 12ish to 3ish zone. I like exercising at night (moonlight runs).
So it’s strange, I work about 80-90 times harder and am more demanding of myself than I would have been if I worked for an employer other than myself. This increase in work motivation, results, and demands is probably inherent to any freelance work or “business owner” work. That’s an interesting pattern and managing the work that you do as an entrepreneur is what we’re talking about today. You have to develop this weird relationship with yourself where you’re the administrator who decides what we need to do (as a business) and then you put on the “employer cap” and do the stuff that you decided to do while wearing the administrative hat. Finally, you clean it all up by wearing, possibly a “customer hat” and test-running for the purposes of debugging your business feature. This works with websites, products, services, expansions of any kind.
Having access to multiple outcome frames from multiple hats (points of view and angles) is a must for any entrepreneur. How do you do this? How do you don and even design the array of chapeaus you have to wear to be a successful entrepreneur? (more…)
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2009/06/20 at 4:25 PM Comments (3)
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One interesting fact about is me that I don’t sleep on beds. Since 2003, I haven’t slept on a bed. I started this practice while studying spider monkeys in the yucatan jungle of Mexico. Obviously, we slept in tents in the yucatan and there were no mattress beds in the tents — just the refreshingly simple jungle floor. I continued this. Sleeping on the floor is better for:
My back. Mattresses encourage odd vertebral curvature, the floor does not and my spine has been noticeably more aligned and even spinal elongation has occurred since I started this practice.
My energy. I got groggy sleeping in beds, but I feel refreshed and clear sleeping on the floor.
My simplicity. As part of my productivity and organizational coachign, I’m an anti-clutter freak and while it may seem overly-meticulous to focus on not having bedding clutter to worry about, having to make a bed, deal with undersheets, comforter, mattress sheets, versus just one blanket that I use to cover me while sleeping on the floor, greatly makes my life easier, simpler, and more clutter-free, when you add up all your belongings (and they do add up!).
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2009/06/13 at 3:58 AM Comments (0)
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There were some problems with the 2008 Code. 2009 Organizational code of computer and household files has greatly improved so that all computer files are primarily all mobile accessible from ANY mobile phone, laptop, and/or desktop. Amazing improvement! And for the reference files all of them are organized in a fashion so that manual backups are smooth and simple (in contrast the 2008 organizational system had scattered or less-consolidated files). The name of the game of 09 is Consolidation and Mobile access!
Basic Breakdown of all organization.
bu/ent holds ALL non-personal created files (blog image files, hollywood movies, iTunes mp3 from artists)
bu/my holds all my project files, audio recordings, film projects and film finished products, as well as all ebooks, and articles written. The key difference is that the all the finished audio, film, and document products are consolidated in the same folder, my/docs/ref/all_polished_finished_complete_audio_docs_film so that specific folder (the fruits of the work) can be easily backed up on a small to moderately sized flash. In other words all my files (my own creations bu/my and others creations but still my files bu/ent) are all consolidated adn then within that the fruists of all my work the final finished audio, film, and document files are all consolidated as well! We’ve got consolidation within consolidation!! haha!
The greatest feature though is the my/docs/ref file which contains all documents I created. Within that there’s convos and correspondance for ALL letters (thank yous, old letters to friends, letters to this or that, text chats saved) saved, a food_recipes folder, various project folders organized by Year now which is MUCH more efficient than by topic which always ends up being confusing and sloppy. I’ve discovered time organizers (chronological by date for example) to be some of the best organizing methods. Additionally I have “Jobs and School Apps” for Alll the applications, job interview, college essays, and graduate essays and application work I did. I have a Personal Finance Success (PFS) folder for a few receipts and financial research I did to increase my fico score, I have all my school files in bu/my/docs/ref/school all MASSIVELY organized by school year, semester, and class, making that information easily accessible. Additionally, I have a writing-creative/nonfiction and writing-poetry for partial writing projects and a personal_brainstorming_ideas folder for a conglomeration of writings that I felt would be useful in a motivational seminar so that folder is a collection hodgepodge of folder files that I added that I felt would be resourceful in a motivational seminar.
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2009/05/02 at 10:10 PM Comments (0)
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I had 634 which was INSANE. I whittled it down to 514, but still want to edit it and get rid of a lot. Felt awesome to sort through them (all electronic of course, Apple Address Book); if you still use paper non-electronic address books, don’t even respond, you’re too outdated. Wondered what criteria people use for saving/editing out contacts. I’ve got work, biz, friend, random project, old new contacts from everything; am structuring it so get the most use though.
I asked around and got answers like 14, 28, 59, and 25. So if the average is 40. I have over 15 times the “average” number of contacts. Hhhmm I am stoked to get my “oktokeep” category down to 200, but even 200 is a ton! It’s exciting to have this many, but ideally there’s a lot of contacts that resemble doors and projects that I have closed and have moved on from and may want to keep closed so editting those down would be incredibly wise. Additionally, having a more concentrated less diluted (all these contacts are relevant) is opportune and an incredible form of clarity. Additionally it’s a matter of ensuring that you maintain awareness of which one’s technically (like working phone number and/or email) and emotionally-socially (still relevant and positive in your life and career at the moment and many will NOT be relevant nor compatibile) work and still are compatible.
Looking through your contacts and not having an “baggage contacts” like “oh don’t want to contact her…or that project’s ended” is ideal to not have negative psychological energy connected up with contacts so sorting them out. Whittling my now 514 down to 200 or less would be incredibly energizing. Additionally
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2009/04/11 at 10:23 PM Comments (0)
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Basically this specific part is messy and infected with a lot of David Allen’s GTD muck. Frankly GTD is too bloated of an organizational system; you take on a lot of crap you don’t need if you use it. It has some great concepts but as a whole the system sucks. So I’m on the process of writing up details of my own system. For computers, it basically uses all online documents, almost all documents on hard drives are backups. It consolidates consolidates consolidates!! All like files. It gets all your outcome project files in one spot. My system really works, and it goes where GTD failed to go and takes you to place where you end up just jotting stuff down you need to do and doing it instead of all this WF, M-S (when the frickin hell am I ever going to look at a maybe-someday list to see what I maybe someday will do? That list is a bunch of crap), crap it just has a simple todos projects and you don’t need seperate folders for project,s that’s like kids r’ us. I have one online file accessible from my phone, laptop, or desktoop that has things to do and if it’s complex, an outline of how to accomplish it all in THE SAME ONE FILE. The file is organized into “computer” “videos” “books” projects because all outside tasks I keep on a ZenBe lists. So yeah, basically what i wrote last year is practically 80% obsolete and the new organizational system is much clearer, sharper, and most important — SIMPLER!
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2009/04/06 at 1:15 PM Comments (0)
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ON MY GMAIL ACCOUNT I HAVE exactly 8700 messages, including “sent”. Nearly 9000 messages! Nine Thousand!!!! That’s unfathomable. Could you imagine just reading 1000 emails? Yeah, now multiple that by nine! I also have a couple thousand on my local hd of mail.app. Email is a MASSIVE undertaking which is precisely why I’ve freaked out about adding the most efficient and productive application for processing it and doing it efficiently. I’m interested in not living in the inbox, but also not having this byzantine network of reference folders. I currently have 34 (thirty-four!) archive folders IMAPed, from “Income” to “Finances-Reciepts”, to “Kittens” to “Travel” to “Friends” and 29 more, it’s gotten ridiculous. I’m going minimal and switching to one bulk archive folder. If I want sub-folders I can wire it nicely with mail.app smartfolders.
Hopefully mail.app will shine with add-ons like mailtags, textexpander, and mail-acton. God, am I glad to be out of gmail web-email! That was total utter hell waiting for the loading, the ads. God that was hell. Mail.app with apple is bringing back the home team (apple) with email. Throw in rules and built-in smart mailboxes and things are flying. Best news is I’m completely done with writing 2000+word emails to people for free. I did that out of the kindness of my heart, but all my time went to emails. If some people are so that they won’t get any 2000+word emails from me anymore, they can suck it big time. So this is an exciting era for me. Maximum 5 sentence responses, even to loved ones. I’m WAY in the “IOUs” for receiving lengthy thoughtful heart-felt messages in the first place.
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2008/06/29 at 1:31 AM Comments (0)
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In my years I’ve given and received a lot of advice. Sometimes I’ve lucidly expressed and shared wisdom or my own or received brilliant tokens of wise suggestions from others. However, not until recently did I start to scrutinize the Value (or lack-thereof) of the advice I received from others. Upon this scrutiny, I quickly realized that some advice is not so valuable and is possibly dangerous!. We all are told to “listen to our elders” and heed advice carefully, but we’re rarely told to watch out for advice!
I have and express gratitude and massive appreciation for most advice from people. A portion of the advice I’ve accumulated in life has brought me to where I live and thrive today, coalescing together an exciting profession with web design, life-coaching, and acting-performance. Additionally a lot of my health and friendships thrived or endured because of great advice from others. However, you may discover, at times, that not listening to others’ advice, holding true to your inner voice, and galvanizing trust in your own actions, can an activate just as much (or more) clarity and confident initiative than following the advice of others!
Here’s my Two cents on why to not accept advice from others as a turn of the tables.
Whether you’re requesting advice on an essay to write, a problem to solve, how to approach it, putting your intention on someone else’s advice or your own has it’s place and time. Here’s 5 great reason why should occasionally avoid the advice of others and how such a practice could benefit you greatly. (I am aware that “not taking advice” is a form of advice!).
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2008/05/25 at 10:11 PM Comments (0)
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This System is Outdated
Prioritizing Todos is fail. Don’t do this. Do POPP instead. (Updated June 14, 2009 — 10:02 AM)
June 14, 2009 — 10:02 AM
Use “Urgent” and “Important” to create the 5 classifications of tasks
Think about potential
Important tasks have MAJOR consequences if it is done or not done in the long run.
Urgent tasks have MAJOR immediate consequences if it is not done.
Highly productive people prioritize which is the most important.
A. Immediate drastic consequences if not Done
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2008/05/22 at 10:10 PM Comment (1)
