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"You Can Always Change Your Plan..."
"...But Only if You Have One." - Randy Pausch
There is no end to the number of ways we can keep track of all the things we want to get gone. The To-Do list is one of the most popular. Some people still do it with paper and pencil, others use their phones to keep track of things digitally. I recently heard about a new kind of To-Do list from Dawn, The Minimal Mom; the silent To-Do list. The silent to-do list comes from a book called Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki. He says that every single material item in your house is sending out a message. For instance:
•A plant says, “Water me, make sure I get enough sunlight.”
•Dishes stacked up by the sink say, “Wash me, dry me, put me away.”
•Laundry on the floor says, “Pick me up, put me in the laundry room, wash me, put me away.”
That's one of the reasons that we feel so much better when we're on vacation or staying in a hotel room. There is so much less for us to do because we don't live there! When we have less to take care of, it frees up more of our energy.
While it is possible that the messages we are getting from our stuff are positive, encouraging messages, those are harder for us to hear because they are drowned out by all the obligation-based ones.
Take a look around each of your rooms and ask:
Here is the Question:
What messages are you getting from your home environment?