Organize More

 
1. Omit needless things. Notice this doesn't say to omit everything. Just needless things.

2. Identify the essential. What's most important to you? What makes you happy? What will have the highest impact on your life, your career?

3. Make everything count. Whatever you do or keep in your life, make it worthy of keeping. Make it really count.

4. Fill your life with joy. Don't just empty your life. Put something wonderful in it. 

5. Edit, edit. Minimalism isn't an end point. It's a constant process of editing, revisiting, editing some more.

In anything you do, see if you can apply these principles. There’s no need to get obsessive about it, of course, but it’s always useful to examine what we do, how we do it, and whether we really need to do it.

Thank you, Leo Babauta.

Take a moment, today, to think about the clutter in life that takes up your time and energy.  Think about what minimizing the clutter (cluttered house, cluttered desk, cluttered mind, cluttered schedule) could go for you.  Think of the gift it could be.  Make a list of 5 things you will get rid of, that you don't use or love, that will help to unclutter your life.  Now, get rid of them.

Congratulations... you have just taken your first staff on the path to minimalism. 

Repeat this task each Monday morning!