Goal For 2008

This reduction project has stalled during the end-of-year holiday season.  So much other stuff going on!  Now that it’s a new year I am thinking about how I can proceed.

There will be a new round of ebay auctions starting soon, because I still have a couple of boxes of loose items left that I’m ready to sell.  That is a minor thing though – just another step forward in a general direction.  For 2008 there should be more perspective.  A larger vision of what I am doing.

My goal for this year is to stop renting my storage unit.  It will not be easy, for reasons I’ll reveal in a later post.  I have made the same promise to myself the past two years, but this time I’m saying it “publically” on this blog, so maybe I’ll be more motivated to make it happen this time.  Much of the preliminary work has already been done.  Such as: pulling out boxes, sorting through them, selling or tossing much of the contents.  Leftover boxes are stacked up next to my bed for now, and I want to reduce them further.  There’s still lots of furniture in storage to deal with.  And a giant pile of stuff that doesn’t even belong to me.  Or does it?  How long must you store junk for someone else before it becomes your property?

I’ve been thinking about my motivations for doing this project.  They are many and deep.  The aspiration is to a monk-like existence, yet not as part of a religious group.  I think it’s called secular asceticism.  The goal being to purify the body and mind, leading to a state of inner peace and freedom.