How Can I Make This Easier?

Simplifying my life for 2015 is under way with mindful attention to each activity. Honestly, I still don't like JUST eating when I could be eating and reading, but I take it on faith that it will pay off.

One helpful aspect of this is that I am actually paying enough attention to what I am doing so I can ask:  How Can I Make This Easier?  For example, updating a calendar.  Previously, I updated my iPhone calendar, my family wall calendar, my organizer two-pages-a-day and the calendar that my dad made me out of wood.  I realized that I spent a lot of time to know where I was supposed to be at what time.

So I stopped buying the family wall calendar and focused on the organizer two-pages-a-day and the iPhone for work only.  I also update Dad's calendar, but that's because Dad made it and he's gone to the Eternal Time Zone.  It's worth the two minutes.

Many folks laugh at my giant ever-so-80s organizer.  Yes, you write in it.  But I write everything it in: grocery lists, notes from phone calls, to do lists, where Grandma and Grandpa are buried, etc.  And I get to physically cross things out.  When we changed email systems at work, I actually knew when all MY meetings were. When I need a reference, I have all the notes about a certain day stored for three years. That's covered my rear more times than I care to count.

I tried to find some other person who prefers paper organizers.  When I Googled it, I got an article comparing Filofax to Blackberries and Outlook.  So I may well be in the minority here.

Nonetheless I've simplified a bit, cutting quite a lot of time out of planning my day.  Paying attention pointed out the right thing for me. So mindfulness does make simplifying easier. I'll let you know about the mindful eating.