Dandelions and Daydreams

Do you ever wish you had more hours in your day? I am always running just a bit behind. My day starts out with too much to do and ends with even more left to do. When you look at your day, how much time do you spend doing things with little or no relevance to your work or life goals?

We all have time wasters. You may not like to admit it, but some things are less productive than others. If you could cut out one irrelevant task, you could probably save 15 minutes a day. What would you do with an extra 1 3/4 hour every week?

Now take that challenge one step further? Do you have 3 daily tasks that don’t help you reach your goals? If you could cut out just 3–15 minute daily tasks, you would gain 5 1/4 hours per week.

Those 5 hours you gain could help you achieve your goals in work or in life.

To give you some help identifying your three things, I thought I would share my list:

• Excessive blog feeds. While I use blog’s to find inspiration for writing, I don’t need to read quite so many. I’m going to cut my subscription list by 10%.
• Dealing with excess clutter. Clutter is the stuff that doesn’t have a home. It’s what makes the house messy and makes cleanup take longer. While I can’t eliminate in in one step, I can get rid of a few things each night until I have decluttered my home.
• Nightly movies. Our local library has a great selection of movies. I just realized that we are watching a movie almost every night. I could gain almost 14 hours a week just by cutting that out!

What are your3 things?

In my last post, I asked “Do you have too many goals?” Today I want to develop that question one step further and ask, “is your life too full?”

I have a friend who lives in a travel trailer, year round. She says the hardest thing about living in an RV is that she doesn’t have any room to store things that she doesn’t use every day.

I have thought a lot about her life style. Wouldn’t it be nice to throw off all the unnecessary clutter and simplify life?

If you lived in a motor home, you would come face to face with having limited space, and you could keep things around just because it’s easier than throwing it out.

I don’t like to think about having limited space in my life. We’ve been told, “you can do anything,” and “you can have it all.”

When we face the truth, life is like living in a travel trailer. You have limited space, and you have to be constantly vigilant about eliminating the things that you don’t want to carry around with you.

How do you want to pack your travel trailer? What hobbies are worthy of taking up the limited time you have? Do you have any activities that would better be left out of your trailer? Maybe you know some high maintenance people who are taking up a lot of space in your trailer?

Evaluate your life from every angle. I know it’s not an easy thing to do, but right now, your travel trailer is cluttered. Your life is packed too full.

photo by Stewart, cc-by