Less is More

This is quite an interesting idea and if nothing else, it's interesting viewing.

To briefly sum it up, it asks the question:  if you were to edit your life, what would you leave out?

As a blogger, I am obsessively writing and editing my words and pictures, and the idea of going further and editing my life is intriguing to me.  This leaves me to wonder if I can start with editing one room at a time and perhaps weave this editing throughout my entire life.  

It would be unrealistic for me to live in a dwelling under 500 square feet, but seriously wouldn't it be cozy and sweet?  Wouldn't it be lovely to have a personal space edited just the way you like it?

I have a bit of editing to do, today.

I ought to get started!

Have a fantastic and productive day.

One Minute Rule

I'm not one to make resolutions.  Really, I'm not.  

But, this blog post is 

going to sound an awful lot like a resolution.

The non-resolution is prefaced with a confession.

I

am

a 

"but I might need this one day, so I should hang onto it for awhile"

kind of person.

These objects of safe keeping are piling up and I can't find the one thing I might need on that one day I was saving it for.

I've mentioned the Happiness Project in past posts and I signed up for the 
2012 Happiness Challenge.

I hesitated before hitting send on the registration, because here is one more

thing I have to keep track of, but I'm hoping it will help me

in getting rid of my too many cows. 

Clutter overwhelms me to the point of being paralyzing.
In the book, The Happiness Project,
author, Gretchen Rubin suggests the "one -minute rule" of
Do anything that presents itself right away, as long as it can be done in one minute.
I can do this.  
Sitting here on the sofa sipping a cup of tea,
 I see a blanket I could fold and put away.   
A pile of folded clothes (yep, I did fold them- because I dislike ironing)  on the coffee table 
to be put away.


I'll be right back..in one minute.

I am feeling the satisfaction of de-cluttering a few things, already!
(A personal realization:  Without messiness, neatness can't exist).


I can do this!
The thing is, once I started picking up things.... it lead me to putting away something else...then another thing.. 
and before I knew it I had cleared away the clutter of an entire messy room...
but I guess this is not following the rule of 
"Do anything that presents itself right away, as long as it can be done in one minute".

I have some more ideas to share in future posts..