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Things do not get rid of themselves. There seems to be a universal law of physics that goes like this: things that exist want to keep\u00a0existing, even if there\u2019s no good reason. And I think they have strange, secret, invisible agents that lurk in our psyche, planting little numbing seeds like \u201cit\u2019s there, so there must be a good reason it\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n
And stuff changes. What\u2019s useful today may not be so useful tomorrow and by next week may be irrelevant and by next month may be seriously in the way of us getting things done. In addition to inconveniently taking up physical space, it consumes psychic space, of which we can all use as much as we can get.<\/p>\n
When was the last time you did an inventory of what you really don\u2019t need anymore?<\/strong><\/p>\n-in your center drawer
\n-in your briefcase
\n-in your closet
\n-in your garage
\n-in your bathroom cabinets
\n-in the trunk (boot) of your car
\n-on your bookshelves
\n-on your staff
\n-on your calendar
\n-on your computer
\n-in your product line
\n-in your relationships
\n-in your habits
\n-in your mind<\/p>\n
Many of the things you will find have probably at some point become \u201csomeday\/maybe\u201d kinds of things, and perhaps there\u2019s a decent reason to keep them around, just to keep the option open \u2013 \u201cBut what if I might need it?\u201d At least consider migrating those to a deeper storage area, and limit that space, so as you add things to it, it forces you to move even older nostalgia out into the dumpster.<\/p>\n
\u2013David Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Things do not get rid of themselves. There seems to be a universal law of physics that goes like this: things that exist want to keep\u00a0existing, even if there\u2019s no good reason. And I think they have strange, secret, invisible agents that lurk in our psyche, planting little numbing seeds like \u201cit\u2019s there, so there … <\/p>\n
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