October 20, 2008

- Does it matter?

I have spent the last day truly cleaning, and eliminating objects of minutia. Doing a clean sweep. I have scaled my life down to this simple list.
1.Computer
2.Clothes
3. Books

I threw out everything that wasn't mission critical for my task at hand. All that crap that we keep in random boxes, drawers, or on shelves that we say we will put to good use, never gets used. I'm talking all my bulky CD's, DVD's, papers, magazines, articles, notebooks, binders, and yes even a jump rope.
 
Everything that was on CD or DVD i can get online, or rip to my computer. All those papers with all that useless information that i say i'll get to one day, and never do. Gone.

Anything that can't be stored digitally is not important, and anything that doensn't have to do with completing your main objective is trivial. All those trivial activities, pertaining to school, day job, errands, whatever, 90% or more of it can be eliminated. You have to ask yourself, "is this really important?" usually it's not. Any physical objects that aren't absolutely required for your highest output activites are just taking up space.

This is a very liberating process. Of course some of these useless objects will tug at your heartstrings for a few minutes, but once its in the recycle bin, you feel really, really good about having one less Our lady Peace cd case around.

When you eliminate the things that need to be eliminated (which is almost everything) you can focuse on the one task that you need to be focusing on. For me, my mission critical is spreading the message of the world class brand i represent. That's it. My day job is merely something that i put up with until my love child is producing sufficiantly to allow me to walk away from the job. Which is soon. But that is only because i have eliminated all the static that sits between me and my goal. Now the only static left is the static in my brain, God help us all...