I read articles like this and wonder why. Why are you in the state you are in that requires so much trimming. So much to do in your business life that you have to use some type of GTD to prioritize your time. That you have to decide which emails to throw away. That your personal life is so intertwined with your professional life that sometimes you can’t tell where one stops and the other begins. I used to be there. Fearing that phone call that would keep me working all night. It was stress just wondering if that phone call was going to come.

I sometimes forget that I used to be in that same predicament. In 2003 I began a year long process of trimming my life of things I just didn’t like anymore. That included everything from spouse to job. Now I’m doing a job I love to do. Come friday, I’m happy it’s the weekend. Come Sunday, I’m happy it’s the work week that is approaching. I work knowing that come 4:30, my day’s work is done. Nobody at work has my phone number or would even have a reason to call me. I’m not checking email for work while at home. My iPhone does, and if I’m curious, I can check it out. But I don’t have to. I love being with the spouse I should have been with. I love everything I do. I buy whatever I want, which kind of sucks come Christmas - the wife doesn’t know what to get me.

But now, I get amused reading your articles here. If you don’t like doing them, why do them at all? If you even have to think about it, maybe you should just stop. Enjoy life. It’s too short not to.