Monthly Resolutions

The only reason for making New Year’s Resolutions on New Year’s is because otherwise, you might forget. In my case, Monthly Resolutions would be more appropriate anyway. Resolutions is not the right word, either. Resolutions are promises that make you feel bad when you can’t keep them. I prefer envisioning what I’d like my life to look like in the future.

You are what you read, so I’m trolling through my RSS feeds, throwing out those I haven’t learned from or enjoyed. I’m also dumping echo chamber feeds and redundancies. And I’m adding feeds that are a bit out of my comfort zone.

I can do without the administrivia that goes with writing four blogs: no single sign-in, lost passwords, and an ugly interface. Qumana shields me from that nonsense. It’s a free download and works on both Mac and PC.

Email is really a drag when everybody knows your name. I’m unsubscribing from many ezines and PR lists. I set up filters that route routine email to a "Routine Folder" and eliminated all but four folders all told.

While I am not a Getting Things Done fanatic, I agree with David Allen that clutter is distracting. Im in the midst of dumping my CD collection on the computer, and I’m moving books I haven’t cracked in the past year to bookcases downstairs. When Austin was with us from Alaska, we prepped about 100 lbs. of motherboards, old disc drives, cables, battery chargers, and more for recycling.