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This year, discover the freedom of an organized life!
May 2015

  

Sue Becker, CPO-CD, ADHD Specialist

I was recently interviewed in the Chicago Tribune by a journalist who was grappling with his desire to enjoy more leisure time by watching more movies & television and reading more books. He was concerned that his lists of must-watch TV, books to read, and movies to experience kept growing, but his available media consumption time was not keeping pace. You can read the full article here, but I've summarized it below in the interest of giving you more leisure time. You're welcome!

 
For hands-on help organizing your books or media collection, or finding more leisure time, please contact me - I'd be glad to help. 

 

Wishing you simplicity, harmony and freedom,
  

Sue Becker  

 Sue Becker, CPO-CD�, ADD Specialist

 

P.S. I hope you can join Deacon Joe Ferrari and me as we present Clutter Ain't Christian, Stuff Ain't Saintly on May 19th in Downers Grove. We presented this popular program last month and had almost 60 attendees. 

 

 


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Article  So Much Media, So Little Time

 

asst-movie-tickets.jpg Adding new items to your media consumption wish list without removing anything, comes at a cost. It might be sleep; it might be time with friends; whatever it is, be sure you're willing to pay the price of adding more. Otherwise, use the four Ds to help you pare down:

  • Delete - Wouldn't it feel great to reduce your guilt by getting rid of something from your queue of obligations? Can you live with the outcome of not watching or reading everything? Rather than hope that illness or injury will give you a reason to spend a month on the couch catching up on the shows you've recorded, give yourself permission to enjoy the best of what's there guilt-free, and let the rest go.
  • Diminish - Fast forward on TiVo. Accept that you already have a good foundation of knowledge on a subject from other sources. For example, do you have to watch the entire six-hour Ken Burns cancer documentary, or is your current knowledge good enough? Can you just watch the final hour to hear a summary of the latest findings?
  • Delay - If you don't get to it now, it will still be out there when you have more time to take it in. Put it on a list for future enjoyment.
  • Delegate - Do you have to watch it or read it, or would reading a review or synopsis be good enough?

Go with the flow. Setting a pattern, like reading one old book after reading two new ones, may be helpful. But it can also be confining. If you're in the mood to read another new book after already reading two new ones, by golly, read another new book. This is for your enjoyment, right?


 

Be true to yourself. Enjoy the media because you want to, not because you think you should. So what if you haven't seen the latest movie everyone's talking about - welcome to my life! Even if I'm not always part of the cultural conversation, I'm ok with it and I still find plenty of things to talk about with friends and colleagues.

 

Here's to more enjoyable leisure time and less guilt. 


 

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