{"id":86,"date":"2008-09-08T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/simplify-and-de-clutter\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T23:55:39","slug":"simplify-and-de-clutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/simplify-and-de-clutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplify and De-clutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing I want have always wanted in my life is simplicity.  I have learned over the years that clutter only confuses things, not to mention keeps my mind spinning about all the things I want or have to do.  I know that when I sit at my desk, if I have junk all over it, my mind somehow picks up that clutter.  I don&#8217;t seem to have  the skill that some people have that allows them to relax their mind when they have a to-do list a mile long.  So I have learned that a simple and uncluttered life leads to a simple and uncluttered mind.  As much as I try to keep this under control, somehow things seem to &#8220;re-clutter&#8221;. Perhaps it is because I don&#8217;t have the discipline to filter the incoming items that work their way into my apartment. <\/p>\n<p>I was over at <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/\">Zen Habits<\/a> this morning, and thought I would share with you some interesting advice regarding simplifying and de-cluttering.  I am going to attempt to put some of this into practice tonight, so wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yea, as a little side note, the more I de-clutter the less my crazy cat has to play around with and make noise with when I am trying to sleep in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the first link, outlining <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2008\/01\/the-four-laws-of-simplicity-and-how-to-apply-them-to-life\/\">four simple rules of simplicity and how to apply them to your life<\/a>, and if you are more ambitious, here is another link with <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2008\/09\/21-easy-hacks-to-simplify-your-life\/\">21 easy hacks to simplify your life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing I want have always wanted in my life is simplicity.  I have learned over the years that clutter only confuses things, not to mention keeps my mind spinning about all the things I want or have to do.  I know that when I sit at my desk, if I have junk all over it, my mind somehow picks up that clutter.  I don&#8217;t seem to have  the skill that some people have that allows them to relax their mind when they have a to-do list a mile long.  So I have learned that a simple and uncluttered life leads to a simple and uncluttered mind.  As much as I try to keep this under control, somehow things seem to &#8220;re-clutter&#8221;. Perhaps it is because I don&#8217;t have the discipline to filter the incoming items that work their way into my apartment. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/simplify-and-de-clutter\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[90,32,7,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}