The Minimalistic Methodization, Part I

I've been looking at simplifying my life lately & yesterday I sat at my computer desk in my office for a good ten minutes & just looked around at what I have on it; here's what I saw:

• a desktop pc w/ monitor & speakers
• a laptop w/ external monitor & keyboard
• various pictures of family
• various precision screwdrivers
• various & sundry decks of playing cards
• various & sundry sizes of paper clips
• various & sundry usb cables
• a pocket pc
• my wacom tablet
• keys that go to something
• a used sheet of sandpaper
• various Bibles
• velcro strips
• new & used batteries, mixed
• new & used ink cartridges, mixed
• chopsticks
• chapstick
• floppy drives (yes, the old ones)
• hard drives
• CDs
• box of coffee
• box of hot chocolate mix
• various & sundry pens, markers & highlighters 
• various & sundry golf tees
• practice golf ball
• cork foosball  
• various folders
• various rulers
• guitar picks
• my long lost checkbook
• work gloves
• scooby-doo figurine
• automotive touch up car paint
• 3 wooden alphabet letters
• various & sundry music theory books 
• box of gauze
• a worn copy of “macbeth”
• playing darts
• a block of wood

I said to myself, “Self, this is a mess; how did I let it get to this point?”.

Lately I've been researching “minimalistic pc setup” & I do believe that's the route I should go.

Sometimes we just need to come to the point where we realize it's imperative to remove the extraneous, the distractions & just focus.

Jesus broke it down to “Love God & your neighbor”.

Paul broke it down to “Jesus Christ & Him crucified”.

You've heard the creed “To know Him & make Him known”. 

That's simplicity in it's purest, most raw form. None of these minimize the message but they all take a minimalistic approach because sometimes the human mind just needs it broken down into basics.

Getting back to my computer desk let's just get real & practical about this: what do I do w/ all this junk? I was thinking about it & ran across the “10 Things Challenge”. If you don't know what this is I'll tell you: Every week, for 52 weeks, go through your stuff & find 10 things to either throw away or give away; it's that simple. At the end of one year, you've [hopefully] removed 520 items from your home & out of your way.

That's practical.

That's spiritual.

That's do-able.

It's time I started removing the junk & distractions, not just from my desk but from every area of my life ~