Fwd: We're putting our lives on a diet
Linda Liang
From: David M. Ward <newsl...@attorneymarketing.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Subject: We're putting our lives on a diet
To: David Ward <linday...@gmail.com>
We're putting our lives on a diet
After decades of acquiring and complicating, I'm going in the opposite direction. I'm downsizing. Uncomplicating. Uncluttering.
This week, my wife and I started a major spring cleaning. (You can do that in February in California.) We're going through closets and storage cabinets, file boxes and dresser drawers.
It's astounding to see how much we have collected. We're not pack rats. We're pretty good about "not buying too much" and "not keeping too much". And yet we've already gone through and disposed of (trash, re-cycle, give-away) more than I thought we even owned.
Simple. Clean. Minimal. Relaxing. That's the feeling I want to achieve.
I donated over thirty boxes of books to my library bookstore. They were taking up room in storage. If I want to read any of them again, I'll replace them with an ebook version.
Lean. Light. Uncomplicated.
We're getting rid of TVs we no longer watch. (We cancelled cable two years ago. If there's anything we want to see, we watch it online.) And furniture we no longer use. We're going through everything, drawing hard lines about what we will keep and what we won't.
Less. Fewer. Modern. Efficient.
One of my goals is to become paperless this year. We've already converted most of our billing accounts to online. We no longer carry subscriptions to newspapers or magazines. We print very few documents anymore. We prefer to save them to Evernote where they are searchable and safely stored in the cloud.
I work from home. My wife and I agree, we want to live and work in an environment that is simple and uncluttered. Sometimes it's difficult to get rid of possessions we've had in our lives for many years but once you begin, it gets easier. And since we began, I can tell you it feels great.
David Ward
The Attorney Marketing Center
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Jessica Min
Thanks for sharing. It’s not easy to get rid of the stuff that you owned for so long time. It really took a very hard decision for me to decide to dump my college notebooks and some of the old textbooks last summer when we moved from a single house to a town house that had no garage. But, it got easier. I like David’s point of view: live in a simple life. My added point is that I don’t have so much to be cleaned when it comes to holiday time or spring/fall cleaning time.
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