Everything in its Place®

Yes, some “thing” may make you smile.

You bring the item into your office or your house, and it gives you that smile maybe one or two more times.

Sometimes, though, it doesn’t even do that much–

• Like that funny T-shirt you bought that sits in your closet because you wouldn’t be seen in public with it on.
• Or some advertising gimmick with the vendor’s info printed all over it– but it does nothing at all.
  

  Advertising Gimmick

Think about it –

How many “things” are wasting precious desktop space

or drawer space that aren’t useful?

How many “things” are causing clutter in your house?

You have all these “things” that no longer give you the same reaction you had when you first saw it.  Instead you have a bunch of “things”,  often called “stuff”, that just take up space and often end up in piles.

And if you collect too much “stuff”,

you have overload,

which causes overwhelm.

• It’s one more thing in a pile.
• It’s one more thing to waste space.
• It’s one more thing in your way.
• It’s one more thing to take care of.

Instead, collect moments in your life:

The moment your child took his/her first step.

The moment your child built his or her first Lego creation.

The moment your child lost his first tooth.    (My grandson swallowed his with popcorn Friday night.)

The moment your child went to kindergarten, high school, or her first dorm room.

The moment your child graduated from middle school, high school, or college.

I look back at the scrapbooks I made of my children growing up, and I remember those times – the birthday parties, the Lego builds, the bicycle training, the dances, and the graduations.  And now I take pictures of my grandchildren’s moments.

Graduating Dental School

Those are the things that really are worth saving.

And if you are lucky, you were able to capture those precious moments in a picture.  Digital storage is so much easier than paper storage, and you will always be able to re-live that moment in your life.

It’s the moments that make life worth living,

not the things you have.

Too many things can make you feel frustrated.

They can end up in piles never to be looked at again.

They take up valuable space that you could use for other items.

They create clutter.

Stop collecting things and take pictures that are precious moments–

Skiers Take Picture With Cell Phone

not a zillion –

just enough to cherish the moment.

And don’t forget to take time to delete the bad or duplicate ones!  Otherwise your computer will be stuffed too!

A backup hard drive just for pictures is a great idea to keep the computer space free!

What things or stuff do you have that you can release?

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