Simplifed

If there is one thing that I have discovered during my recent attempts to become organised is that the best way to success is to simplify things. As such I am going to slim down all of the things in life that take up a lot of time but don’t actually help me achieve anything. Being involved in a lot of projects and activities, I often feel that there is not enough time in the day to achieve all that I would like. I have to make some big cuts and I think that the decisions I will need to make are going to be hard! I want to do a lot, and I do actually “do” a lot, however, not everything can be done now.

There must be about 50 different things I would like to do that are based on the Internet. I have website ideas, article ideas, blogging ideas… but there is not enough time to complete everything. One good example is theGetFit application that I was making with Gringod . It is a really good idea, deserves some regular time to be spent on it and would certainly be useful for a lot of people. As he is not available regularly anymore for this type of thing, perhaps the project should be shelved along with the 50 other ideas we have so that we can focus on 1 thing like, for example, encaptured.com my photography site that we both contribute to. This would in theory generate better content that covers more and could give us more satisfaction in the long run.

The biggest step I have completed recently on my way to achieve a simplified life was simple yet surprisingly hard to do … I have reduced the number of feeds in my reader by about half. The hardest thing I did was decide to remove the most active feed in each of my categories then just figure out which other ones I just skimmed over. I can now tell you that this provided a real “breath of fresh air”. I now have time to read each entry rather than scroll down like a hamster on speed. I am getting more out by bringing less in! This initial success has me inspired enough to think about my next simplification task… which is a bit bigger and is taking some time to work through!