Andrew Mellen / Unstuff Your Life

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Getting organized is.... is NOT

1. get rid of what is NOT essential / get rid of distractions

2. urgency is not importance / many ppl will tug on your time and urgency and YOU decide if it is important / you can say NO THANKYOU to someone else's agenda / do not let other's take me off my focus 

3. it is not a diet for stuff / do not purge and then gorge / make good choices 

4. it is not  a hobby / it is a means to an end / it is a way of living each day / it is NOT hyper organization 

5. ask myself "does this move me forward? does it make me stuck? does it move me backwards?

6. I am NOT my stuff / my value does not equal my STUFF / 

7. Let go of other ppl's opinions / what other's think of me is none of my business 

8. organization is consistency and not determination

9. we do not have to LIKE to make the bed in order to make the bed. Keep it simple.... that's why I have only one pillow on my bed

10. what i put into the future will never happen / if it is important enough to do is important enough today 

11. look at core values / there is enough time to do what is important 

12. EVERYTHING in my house has only one home / the top of something is NOT  a home... wow... 

13. Like lives with like / similiar things live together 

14. Stuff equilibrium / everyone's level is different 

15. Something IN / something OUT 

(shoes that you mow the lawn in... LOL) 

16. Every task has a beginning and an end.... And most tasks take very little time.  / doing laundry is from the hamper all the way to the place where it is clean and in its home... not clean and on the couch... or on the desk.... 

17. When i just don't know where to begin / if everything is precious then nothing is precious.... E.G. the ONLY book i have from my great grandfather is the bible stories book. that's ONE thing and it is much more important bc there is only ONE.

QUESTIONS:

Piles of paper... ?

Get rid of things that no longer go in my life. Get RID OF IT. You will not use them again. Keep only what is Universal bc tomorrow is different and it will no longer work. Get rid of things that I can find on the internet. Save things electronically.

What I got from Grandmother? 

Let it go. BC it does not have to stay in a set / get rid of the part that you do not use / get rid of what grandma had ... it's already served its use 

BOOKS?

Let them go... unless they are my bibles. I have books that I use over and over. they are my spiritual books. 

Bobbles and do/dads:

Do not "charge" objects the responsibility of holding your memories. Let YOU yourself hold your memories. BC things can break and you will think that your memories are gone if it is ruined or broken, which is NOT true. wow. that is very powerful. Just bc it was Grandma's does NOT mean it was even important to HER. and that u should put it in a shrine. My house does not have to be a shrine to the past or my memories. ONly a few.... wow. 

This is nothing but problem solving in my every day life. It's solving the task of just Living and keeping Living very simple. 

wow... what a great youtube vid