A few notes and thoughts. We typically good at monitoring and noticing changes where we are looking, but very often we become blind to things right in front of us and more astoundingly what is going on inside of us. One good way monitor these things is with a daily inventory. Once a day, pause what you are doing, take a deep breath, and turn your attention to yourself. Ask yourself, what’s on your mind? How do you feel? Are you calm or agitated, and how does that manifest itself — are you tense, relaxed, nervous… Looking a little deeper, identify the source of that feeling or sensation – the real reason you feel that way. Sometimes, it can be as simple as an unpleasant phone call that happened many hours before that you felt you had fully moved past but obviously haven’t.. Once you’ve identified the true reason, does it respectively justify the attention and discomfort (in most cases no) or is it something which has been ignored that truly requires additional attention. Most times we’ll find there are things on our mind which require not additional attention at all, and should be discarded. Another place we become blind to things right in front of us is our common physical environment. Here take a visual inventory. What’s on your desk? What’s in your space? Are there things there that no longer have purpose or that you need? Take a few of the unnecessary things and discard them. Developing a daily inventory, will create a monitoring system that will not only clean up our mental and physical space, but will proactively disapprove of unimportant and unnecessary thoughts and things to begin with.

Related: Essentialism, Frugality, Simplification, Attachments