I repeatedly fail to reduce the clutter and quantity of unnecessary stuff in my living and working environments. I have too many books, too many clothes, too many unclassified emails, too many file icons on my desktops, too many piles of miscellaneous clutter around my home.
I am not seeking advice about this—I’ve read various minimality blogs from time to time, so any advice anyone instantly thinks of is unlikely to be something I haven’t seen already. The one thread that I can see running through all of these is a habit of putting something on one side to deal with later, and not dealing with them as fast as they accumulate. But that’s a description of the problem, not of a solution.
I repeatedly fail to reduce the clutter and quantity of unnecessary stuff in my living and working environments. I have too many books, too many clothes, too many unclassified emails, too many file icons on my desktops, too many piles of miscellaneous clutter around my home.
I am not seeking advice about this—I’ve read various minimality blogs from time to time, so any advice anyone instantly thinks of is unlikely to be something I haven’t seen already. The one thread that I can see running through all of these is a habit of putting something on one side to deal with later, and not dealing with them as fast as they accumulate. But that’s a description of the problem, not of a solution.