I’m growing more hesitant about posting lately, to Twitter or Facebook especially. I just feel less inclined to keep the world completely up to date with things I am thinking and doing. (The Tumblr is different). I would rather spend more time doing and just don’t feel the need right now, to push out all these status updates. Which isn’t to say I’m not cutting it out completely, not yet anyway. Since when I post this it’ll push to Twitter.

New theme again, I was going with the theme from Mnmlist.com but it’s just a little bit too far for me right now, so instead have stumbled across version 1 of that theme with added comments (available here > http://dannycooper.org/theme/, which is still simple and clean and has comments added in.

leaning on his fence one day, a devout quaker was watching a new neighbor move in next door. after all kinds of modern appliances, electronic gadgets, plush furniture, and costly wall hangings had been carried in, the onlooker called over, “if you find you’re lacking anything, neighbor, let me know and i’ll show you how to live without it.”

via The New Neighbor | Becoming Minimalist.

If I’m going to cut down on my possessions then I first need to take stock of what I have in the first place.

http://chotoye.com/mythings.html

Hoping to actually do it all, plus I’m hoping the addition of having to photograph it all will slow me down and spend some actual time considering the things I’m listing.

“I’ll never be happy”

“Things don’t go my way”

“I just want a sign things will work out”

You want a sign? Here ya go. This simple blog entry found you today, didn’t it? Allow me to hit you over the head with this you seek.

Life is good. Challenging? Yes. But good. Often, we are so busy complaining about what is going wrong, we don’t take time to acknowledge the dozens, no, hundreds of things going fine any given day.

So take time to count your blessings, see how they add up. Crunch the numbers. Do this daily, and you won’t have time to subtract from your happiness with the negative thoughts.

That, my friend…is the math lesson of life, we so easily forget. An equation for puking rainbows.

via “I’ll never be happy.” “Things don’t go my way.” “I just… | her0in_chic on Xanga.

(I start these lists with only 1 or two things as well as a hope more will come to me…)

1. Iron ALL my clothes¹
2. Buy more hangers
So that
3. I can hang ALL my clothes^2.
Which will mean
4. That I can put all the stuff from the hole³ in my chest of draws
Which will mean
5. That I can put my clothes rack in the hole which it will fit into, cosily but it’ll fit. Which will just make the room seem bigger and hopefully a little tidier.
6. In the spirit of trying to embrace the minimalist type lifestyle I am hereby committing myself to, by Easter (it’ll take a while!), making a list of everything I own. (Which I may photograph too…)

There are a few related things, like the fact that I still have a lot of Joey’s stuff but I’m hoping to put that in the space outside my room. Also, I will need to sort the stuff from the hole…

1. That can be ironed.
2. That can be hung
3. The cubby hole area in my room where I currently store hide stuff.

Just discovered http://davidhieatt.typepad.com/, he co-founded (I think) Howies but has since left. In any case, I just discovered his blog. Which is a mix of quotes, thoughts and posts with a creative work bent.

Funny, it seems to fit in with how I’m thinking at the moment. That we should working smarter and think about how we can do that.

I like it.

It was almost like until 6 Music came along the BBC were saying. I’m terribly sorry but if you like alternative music then you’ll just have to wait until 7pm. We’ve got Westlife and Girls Aloud singles to play!

via Killing BBC 6 Music would be a slap in the face to licence-payers | Media | guardian.co.uk.

I think I’ve secretly wanted to be more minimalist for a long while. While I won’t deny I feel the urge for more, shinier, newer I think I’ve never really completely embraced it. At the back of my mind there’s been a thought that says – it’s just stuff, it’s not going to make you happier, or enjoy life more. It’s the same with Xmas especially, the gifts I’ve liked most are the ones delivered with thought and not pounds. The ring I got off mum a long time ago and the bracelet Han got me from her travels.

Eliminating clutter and streamlining processes to free up time and focus on my passions.

The thing is, from the few blogs I’ve been reading (http://mnmlist.com/ is good) it’s not just about cutting down on the things you have, it’s about making more of what you do have, especially time.

This last couple of weeks, I’ve tried to just take more time to myself. In my job it is so easy to be swallowed up by it. To spend each and every spare minute thinking about it or doing work towards it. I’ve realised that while I love my job (mostly!) I am not prepared to give all time and energy to it. I’m just not. There are other things that are equally deserving of my time. At the moment, it’s a work in progress but I’m starting to spend more time cooking and just taking 20 minutes to walk to the shop down the road and less time on the computer or phone.

The power of minimalism lies not in adding to the things you own and do for the sake of improving your life. It’s about enabling you to subtract clutter and noise and focus your time, energy, and passion on whatever makes you most happy and alive.

Now it’s getting late and I need to get up early.

This post started because of this quote>

“I believe the key to success is being flexible enough in your life to be able to search out that which you can be successful at. A lot of people build up their lives to a level where they’re just not sustainable unless they ’settle’ for a job that they aren’t happy with.”

It’s easy, as you earn more to end up spending more but not necessarily being happier with it. I just want to be confident, happy in my own skin. That’s all.

defective yeti — Toyota Recalls Remaining Models Due to Faulty Chick Magnets.

Toyota suffered yet another setback today, as it was forced to recall all remaining models due to faulty chick magnets. “We have received numerous complaints regarding the complete lack of arousal induced by our dependable, fuel-efficient vehicles,” said Shotaro Kamiya, a spokesman for the beleaguered automotive company. “The panty-dropping capacity of our products falls far short of our standards, and for that we apologize.” Owners are urged to bring their vehicle into their local dealership, where technicians will replace lithium-ion batteries with hemis, apply “Peeing Calvin” decals to back windows, and affix Truck Nutz to the underside of pickups. “No deaths are attributable to the defect,” Kamiya added, saying that the recall was entirely voluntary. “But as no one has every gotten laid in the backseat of a Yaris, no births are attributable either. We regret this senseless loss of life.”