Hey there,
Well, I have finally sucumbed to mister Ferris’s book after several ladies who I admire enormously and am a big fan of Nicola Cairncross and Judith Morgan, two of many kept on going on about how amazing it was; even better that Micheal Gerber’s emything book. So, I ordered it from Amazon and have been glued to the pages ever since! It’s essentially about looking at your life and your dreams and seeing how you can elimate all of the unneccessary clutter, so that you can get closer to your dreams – ie via dumping it – yep even in the middle of something that you feel does not serve you, or is just not helping you further you dreams. This has for me resulted in just ditching a lot of reading that I have been doing, late into the night, that really is completeley unnecessary, as I really don’t need to know everything in the genre of Internet marketing, ie every strategy, every tactic, I just need, nope not need let’s say want to master those strategies that I like and delegate the rest of it. Ie some of the design and technical aspects, that yes I do know some of how to do, but to me honest, it’s as dull as hell!
I am at times hot-headed, but this was an extreme example. I felt drunk, my head was on fire that much, so I spent most of last night in and out of the bath, and in and out of the shower, using hot and cold water to balance my body out. I even when I did manage to get to sleep, slept with the window wide open. I am at times hot-headed,( I am a fire sign, and have a lot of fire in my personal chart!) but this was an extreme example. I did manage to get to sleep, slept with the window wide open.I think part of this fever was also to do with the surge of excitement that went through me, wow I kept thinking.. I really can do this, I can do that.. by dumping this etc. As I do have very clear goals, but often I have found myself stuck in the process of trying to learn it all or doing it all, and now the sense of liberation I feel is awesome, I can do it all, through dumping, eliminating, delagating, outsourcing, and simplifying my life, and what’s most powerful to me, from Tim’s book is that actually, it is not THAT complicated, or expensive to achieve the lifestyle I really want, especially when I focus on doing things that I love, and elimanating things I don’t love and outsourcing thus freeing up my time and headspace and indeed schedule to start making things happen more quickly!:) In the words of Amy MacDonald’s song: Mr Rock n’ Roll,I keep thinking: ” I wish I knew you before( Tim Ferris!) “
I feel that it was just part of the journey for elimating mental clutter, as I had rather a lot in my life, and just doing it on an energetic level, and I have Tim to thank for that! So thanks Tim, I am blowing you a kiss of gratitude now! What’s amusing to me is that from a Feng shui point of view that I have been interested in and practicing for quite some time; albeit more from a symbolic and energetic stance as opposed to a mathematical or angular stance, is that I have got rid of, given away or sold many personal possessions that no longer warrant a place in my life, yet on an information-front I have been an info- addict, and this has gone unnoticed until I read both Tim’s book and Rich Schrefren’s attention age, bringing this fact home to me. So I have started what I am calling an ‘Infocolonic,’ as I have had many body colonics, which is a gift that I am giving myself, thanks to these fine men, but reading Tim’s book, I think brought everything on a life and professional level home to me, big time. It was like a verbal tsunami, stripping away ’structures’ that have been in place, and were ‘givens,’ to be replaced by more enjoyment, a better quality of life, as I have been getting a little annoyed at spending too much time in front of my lappie, and less time having a laugh with my mates or strolling in the woods or having an adventure I must admit… well not any more!!
Today, I am much better, still have a bit of headache but at least I have no fever:)
What I find quite interesting with the book when I have been reading it, is that I just keep thinking, well Tim, as a woman I have been conditioned to multi-tasking, not just on a personal basis but on a professional basis. I feel that women by definition live high maintenance lives. Part of this granted is to do with that we are a lot more complex than men, a larger emotional brain, but I think after taking a hard look at myself today, part of it, is really out of conditioning, that we have really just accepted, and gone along with.
More of Tim’s book later as I process a bit more, but thanks Tim!
Carriex
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