So, it is Discardia again, and Lent, too. I am trying to meditate 15 minutes daily. I have so far failed to do it every day, but I am getting closer. I just purchased a binaural beats things for daydreaming; if the binaural beats work, then yay, and if not, I just bought 15 minutes of rain sounds to meditate to. Either way I win.
I have spent the past few months clarifying my goals in life - I want to stay in Buffalo, I have 3 hobbies (fiber, books, and organizing), etc.
I have about 230 books tagged to be let go in librarything. I'm currently (re)reading P.D. James' Adam Dalgliesh series, prior to letting them go. Off go the manga for younger girls! Bye to the textbooks I will never use! Ciao to the Latin textbooks that I didn't use and have no affection for! Some of these will go to relatives and friends, some to librarything, some sold for their value, because it is considerable.
I'm also drawing up a plan for dealing with all the papers. I have about 7 file drawers, and I am thinking about what I am keeping, and how to arrange it. For example, it makes sense to put the financial information into one drawer only, and keep the grad school stuff separate from the general reference stuff. But do I keep all the articles about feminism, or do I trust that I have not looked at them, will not look at them, and can re-find them if ever I want them again? It makes sense to copy other people's poems into my commonplace book. To make a file of stuff to do around Buffalo. I need to figure out how to deal with articles I clipped because they are about something like Dead Horse Bay, and ticket stubs. I may have to scrapbook them somehow. It makes no sense to keep them in boxes, away from my sight, where I cannot look at them and remember things, which is the point of keeping them.
I'm learning to trust that I will be able to find things again if I need them, that I can take books out of the library or download out of copyright things on the internet, that I will have money to buy what I want if I can't get it any other way.
I'm also revamping my organizing system. I've gone back to the well; I'm rereading David Allen's Getting Things Done. I never got the hang of a weekly review, and had fallen to daily TODO lists, which were okay, but not great. I've moved from the old notebooks I talked about a few months ago to a 3 ring 8.5" by 5.5" binder, with tabs on the sides. This lets me move stuff around in ways that the notebooks could not, and keep everything except the calendar in one place. Keeping a list of my goals for 1-2 years and 3-5 years is helping me put what I'm working on in perspective. I've never done anything like that before.
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