I have discovered Minimalism. This means many different things to many different people. To me this means de-cluttering my life, cutting back on the "things" I own and getting down to what I need to live and be happy. It means living deliberately. Thinking twice or thrice before making a purchase and bringing another "thing" into my life. I want to live with "passions" not "possessions".
Does this mean that I plan to give away all my stuff and live in an empty home? No, not at all. It just means that I'm going to think long and hard about whether or not I really need that next purchase or is it just a passing fancy that will end up in a box at the back of a closet.
I began the process of de-cluttering my life at work yesterday. I managed to remove well over half of the "stuff" from my office. Things I never use and are not required to do my job. I have opened up so much space in my office and taken away that closed in feeling. Very liberating. I'm not finished in the office but I am so close.
My next de-cluttering project is going to be my home office. I'm a photographer as well and I have a lot of old stuff that I never use. Some that I have never used because it ended up not being what I wanted or what I thought it would be. My desk is full of DVDs and hard drives with back ups of my photos. I'm going to make an official back up and take that to my parents home for safe keeping. I'll pick it up every month or two to add to it from my main system. I think I can get rid of all those DVDs or at least not add to them anymore.
I'm very excited to finally have some direction in my life. A way to begin to focus on my passions. I can't wait to discover what they are! I have lived for so long not really knowing what I wanted to do or how I was going to do it.
Chris.
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