Excuses. They keep you from making progress. Clutter. It keeps you from making progress or gives you the excuse to not make progress.
Yesterday started with a “big clean”. A reorganization. It dawned on me that the living room was made to focus on the TV. Not conversation. Not connection, but disconnection. You sit and not only is it a habit to turn on the TV. The set-up is a trigger to zombie out. To leave it on. What if the living room was set up for conversation and connection? What if the inconvenience was the distraction (TV) and not focus?
After starting adjustments and rethinking (still in progress)) there was a giant pile of junk left over. Cords, outlets, surge protectors. It would not be obnoxious to say there was over $100 in unneeded, unwanted cords and plugs and surge protectors in a pile. Simply for... plugging (distractions) stuff* in. Yet, they were all being used for the past year in some way. Plugs lurking in the corner, begging to be used.
That is the next rethink, what is all this stuff for? As the habits and routines get modified and changed, what is the reason for all this stuff? The plugs and surge protectors? More stuff not needed. How many plugs and surge protectors for iPads and iPhones and computers and kindles and on and on are needed?
Now, please do not mistake that thought. I like my iPad and Kindle and iPhone. Yet, needing them charged and ready to always be on? To have a life revolve around always keeping these devices on and charged and ready? That is the problem.
What happens if their charge runs out? Depends on your thought process. I used to have and probably do still have cord somewhere that was purchased specifically to be long enough to reach from the outlet to the bed. Why? In case a device was being used so much that the battery was dying. The cord could be used to charge and continue device use. Years ago that seemed revolutionary. Now? Heartbreaking.
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