Be Efficient In Your Time Management

Eliminating clutter from one’s life should be a priority for just about everybody these days. This is especially so if we’re hoping to improve ourselves and also if we’re hoping to be able to know the difference between what we would want and what we would need in our lives. These hectic days we live in seem to be making it more difficult to distinguish between the two and our lives have become far more cluttered and bogged down than we’d like because of that.

For example, how many ebook readers do we need to buy in one week? One’s great and two could be fine. But — unless we’re planning on bringing portable reading to the masses — we have to draw the line on conspicuous consumption someplace and a dozen or more of those readers might seem to be a bit self-indulgent or ostentatious. Unless we’re Bill Gates, maybe. Then, we can buy whatever we’d like.

Also, do we really need to go to a highline retail jewelry store for every little piece of jewelry we might want to buy? What’s wrong with obtaining a few pieces of fashion jewelry wholesale? Given the current economic straits we’ve just made our way through, it seems it’d be smarter than ever to get real about our finances and conserve money by shopping smarter than ever before.

Perhaps we find ourselves more enamored of the deed (shopping) than of the end result (purchasing the item). Put simply, maybe what we really want is the bag or box with the fancy department store name on it then the things that go into those same bags and boxes? Parading down Fifth Avenue with a bag from a store like Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Avenue does have its attractions, one must admit.

Still, one can’t help but admire the simplicity inherent in a simple digital sport watch, many of which can be found in just about any kind of department store one could imagine. The thing is a model of technological superiority and extreme rugged durability. It is the apex of design and is far less expensive than certain Swiss made watches costing thousands of dollars more, but which probably run no better.

Using the watch as an example, maybe it’s possible, then, to understand something more about the simple life and how it can be obtained. As long as one understands that it might be more important to get everything that’s needed and to not worry so much about things that are only wanted, one can make a good start towards realizing that less can be more in many circumstances. And less is what we should be striving for.

What we really need to know about life is that it is we ourselves who clutter it up, sometimes deliberately and sometimes inadvertently. But it’s when we begin to run around like crazy little squirrels, amassing as many nuts as we can but with no real idea of what we’re going to do with them once we have them all, that we realize that our mania for increasing clutter exists. Fortunately, by separating our needs from our wants we can make a good start towards being that mania.