{"id":7093,"date":"2020-08-03T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2021-05-30T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T19:20:15","slug":"365217-lessons-of-how-much-is-enough-lesson-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365217-lessons-of-how-much-is-enough-lesson-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#217: Lessons from Parts 1 & 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the first 2 weeks of July I challenged myself to discern how much stuff was enough<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and take at least one step to simplify my life. (Of course this follows a decade of working to declutter and simplify my possessions and life. One would think I had barely anything left to prune. One would be wrong. \ud83d\ude42 ) I invited you all to do the same.<\/p>\n

The result was complicated. I identified 4 areas of clutter<\/a><\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Workspace Clutter (physical clutter)<\/li>\n
  2. Time Clutter (evaluating how I spend my time)<\/li>\n
  3. Money Clutter (long range financial planning led to facing the inevitability of death)<\/li>\n
  4. Worry Clutter (emotional worries can clutter my mind and heart)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"<\/a>In order to honor the underlying principle of not making this task itself so complicated that I became discouraged and procrastinated I chose to focus on my desk which is my primary workspace and where I spend most of my time. The task was simple \u2013 sort of. All I aimed to do was clear off miscellaneous papers from projects that I was still actively working on.<\/p>\n

    Here\u2019s what I learned in the process:
    \nThrowing out papers is easy once the task is done, BUT these were ongoing projects. Filing papers may seem simple once you have a logical system and place to put them, BUT my file cabinets were already packed and I didn\u2019t want to spend the time going through 8+ drawers to throw out or digitize obsolete papers. That would take way more time than I wanted to spend now.<\/p>\n

    This forced me to reevaluate the main projects I had been working on. Some of the projects were temporarily on hold or morphed into Zoom meetings because of Covid-19. Perhaps I was just trying to keep up with too many commitments. What would come to the top \u2013<\/p>\n