I used to subscribe to a magazine called Real Simple, until I realized all it did was recommend complex procedures to simplify my life. (“choose the best of your child’s pictures for the month and mat and frame them in a format that matches your couch”) as well as lots of websites to visit (planning your child’s birthday party? visit birthdayparty.com “) ,items to buy, and photo shoots of children’s rooms where the moms all seemed to be wealthy fashion designers who lived in Manhattan. I simplified my life by cancelling my subscription.
But here it is another New Year and one of my resolutions is once again to simplify my life. Simplify it in the sense of clearing out the daily time sucking clutter so that I have the time to do all the things I want to do–write the books, knit the sweaters, sew the quilts, jam the jam, grow the tomatoes, travel the world…all the while maintaining a centered calm, a fit body, a clean house, and good, active relationships with family and friends.
How am I going to do this? Who knows? I vow again to concentrate on doing only the things I really want to do (but there are so many!) and dispatching the boring time wasters (filing, anyone?) as efficiently as possible. And throwing out paper. Before I come up with any more excuses, I will go through my office and throw out two thirds of the paper.
However, my son’s photos are going unframed into the messy pile in his closet.
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I used to subscribe to a magazine called Real Simple, until I realized all it did was recommend complex procedures to simplify my life. (“choose the best of your child’s pictures for the month and mat and frame them in a format that matches your couch”) as well as lots of websites to visit (planning your child’s birthday party? visit birthdayparty.com “) ,items to buy, and photo shoots of children’s rooms where the moms all seemed to be wealthy fashion designers who lived in Manhattan. I simplified my life by cancelling my subscription.
But here it is another New Year and one of my resolutions is once again to simplify my life. Simplify it in the sense of clearing out the daily time sucking clutter so that I have the time to do all the things I want to do–write the books, knit the sweaters, sew the quilts, jam the jam, grow the tomatoes, travel the world…all the while maintaining a centered calm, a fit body, a clean house, and good, active relationships with family and friends.
How am I going to do this? Who knows? I vow again to concentrate on doing only the things I really want to do (but there are so many!) and dispatching the boring time wasters (filing, anyone?) as efficiently as possible. And throwing out paper. Before I come up with any more excuses, I will go through my office and throw out two thirds of the paper.
However, my son’s photos are going unframed into the messy pile in his closet.
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