• want to read it/look at it/remember it.
• can use it for a crafts project.
• need it for an emergency.

Store it until winter.

Store it until summer.

Store it until you need it.

Can you get rid of these tangible “things” (i.e. photo albums, books, school work, etc) that sit in your bedroom, closet, garage, <insert other storage space>?

Can you live a life where if everything were to burn in a fire and all you could run out with was your laptop & hard drive, you wouldn’t be devastated one bit?

I’d like a life with less clutter and tangible stuff — but there’s some kind of attachment to physical objects. Just as looking at photos digitally may evoke a different emotion or response than flipping through a physical album.

Are we conditioned to be attached to physical things?

Or can we truly live a less materialistic lifestyle and attain more freedom?

I want to clear my room except for things that I use on a weekly basis.

I think it will make me happier.

I’m wondering what other peoples lives are like who have done something similar…

It’s definitely a challenge.

As an external auditor, people hate me before they even meet me.

I’m not used to that.

Throughout engagements I’ve attempted to show that I’m a sensitive, human being who is going to use keen judgment when testing their IT infrastructure controls.

I understand that humans make mistakes.

I will be sensitive to you, if you are likewise to me.

It’s a reciprocation, really.

I’ve recently been presented switching service lines into information protection and business resilience.

I’m not exactly sure what that entails — I would be lying if I said that I understood what it was all about.

But truthfully, I’m just as lost about it as I was with information risk management in the external audit.

My largest concern is being a noob all over again.

But if I don’t do it now, it’ll get much more difficult.

I might even get stuck in my ways and enjoy a level of comfort of knowing exactly how to do my job.

The only problem with this is that the line of work that I do right now is not rewarding.

I’m having a hard time understanding what kind of skills and resources I need in order to do something that I am passionate about; thus, a huge disconnect between the experience I’m obtaining in my day-to-day versus where I want to be, soon.

I think that this year will require me to really push myself in developing a career that I enjoy.

I’ve written down areas that I want to pursue, but I need more information in order to figure out what I need to do to get there.

I’ll be doing a lot of communicating with various people, I know.

I am passionate about what I want in life and I hope that it’ll help drive the change that ultimately, brings me fulfillment and inner peace with each day that I am involved.

I will not settle with a job that does not make me happy.

I will put in just enough time to figure out what I really want to do.

So far, so good.

I’m getting down to the part where I’m left with boxes of sentimental items such as written letters, schoolwork, stories, essays, poems, childhood toys, cassette tapes and CDs.

I’ve been trying to find a way to part with the sentimental items — and I think I might actually get around to cleaning it all out. They say that things should be properly displayed or hidden away, and if they have value to you, they shouldn’t be in boxes or sitting inside a closet. So I think I’m just going to have to start digitizing my things (i.e. taking photographs of the items) otherwise it’s going to grow into a heap of things that will take even longer to get rid of.

My goal is to not dread moving — when the time comes.

Nothing left at my parents house.

I want everything to fit in my car.

This will definitely be a slow, but useful process to start simplifying my life further.

Challenge me.

- Intertwining and mingling different groups of friends / Conversing for a group, not towards an individual.

- Being happy for persons-I-don’t particularly-care for successes.

- Diffusing uncomfortable situations/kindly excusing oneself (is that even possible when you’re cornered and haven’t got anywhere to go? i.e. waiting for someone and a crazy bum comes up and starts harrassing. Twice now — that’s enough for me, kthxbai.)

To Do (this week/weekend):

• Make Rosewater
• Paint
• Walk/Hike + Yoga
• Finish reading Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness
• Begin reading Tao Teh Ching
• Needs Assessment (on myself and career)
• More socializing!