Discardia_ More Life, Less Stuff - Dinah Sanders [0]
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Three Core Principles
Part One
March Discardia: Getting Started
Symptom #1: Clutter: A Houseguest Who Won’t Leave
Symptom #2: It’s Hard to Start
Symptom #3: It’s All Too Much
Symptom #4: Oh, No! I’m Not Perfect
Symptom #5: Uh-oh. Did I Remember to Worry about Forgetting That?
Symptom #6: Procrastination
Symptom #7: I Don’t Wanna!
Symptom #8: The Giant Plan for the Rest of My Life
Symptom #9: Worrying about Your Bottom
Part Two
June Discardia: Core Principle #1 – Decide and Do
Symptom #10: Hello, Same Old Bad Habit
Symptom #11: Argh! Email!
Symptom #12: The Museum of Me
Symptom #13: But I Should Want This
Symptom #14: Hounded By Worry and Fear
Symptom #15: Anger, Resentment, Intolerance
Symptom #16: Haunted by the Black Dog
Part Three
September Discardia: Core Principle #2 – Quality over Quantity
Symptom #17: Carrying an Albatross
Symptom #18: But I Might Need It Someday
Symptom #19: Clutter Everywhere
Symptom #20: Too Many Clothes
Symptom #21: Stuff as a Way to Show You Care
Symptom #22: Needless Obligation
Symptom #23: Life Out of Balance
Symptom #24: Rushing
Symptom #25: Distraction
Symptom #26: Plugged into the Wrong Connections
Symptom #27: Making Nice
Part Four
December Discardia: Core Principle #3 – Perpetual Upgrade
Symptom #28: Holiday Stress
Symptom #29: No Home Position
Symptom #30: Balancing on the Edge of a Cliff
Symptom #31: The Short Leash
Symptom #32: Emotional Baggage
Symptom #33: *SIGH*
Symptom #34: Bad Scene, Man
Symptom #35: Overspending, Underenjoying
Symptom #36: Boredom, Lethargy, Apathy
Symptom #37: The Edison Museum
Symptom #38: But I Spent a Lot on It!
Symptom #39: Killing Time
Symptom #40: Dream Duty
Symptom #41: Dreamblindnes
Onward!
Gratitude
Glossary
Resources
Discardia
More Life, Less Stuff
Dinah Sanders
Copyright 2011 Dinah Sanders
All rights reserved.
Edited by Joanne Shwed, Backspace Ink
Cover design by B.J. West and Dinah Sanders
Book design by Joseph Gratz
Cover model Modesty B. Catt
Cover photograph by Reverend Dan Catt
Cataloging in publication by Rice Majors
Sanders, Dinah.
Discardia : |b more life, less stuff / |c by Dinah Sanders ; edited by Joanne Shwed ; cover design by B.J. West and Dinah Sanders ; cover photograph by Reverend Dan Catt.
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ISBN 978-0-9839980-2-0 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-0-9839980-1-3 (Kindle)
ISBN 978-0-9839980-0-6 (EPUB)
"Let go of everything that doesn’t make your life awesome! With three key principles and numerous practical tips, Discardia—a new holiday—helps you solve specific issues, carve away the nonsense of physical objects, habits, or emotional baggage, and uncover what brings you joy." - online description
Contents: Three core principles -- March Discardia: Getting started -- June Discardia: Core principle #1: Decide and do -- September Discardia: Core principle #2: Quality over quantity -- December Discardia: Core principle #3: Perpetual upgrade -- Onward! -- Glossary -- Resources.
1. Success. 2. Motivation (Psychology) 3. Conduct of life. I. Title.
BF637.S4 S253 2011
158/.1--dc20
To parents, partners, friends, and teachers
Thank you for loving me and helping me be a better person.
Introduction
There is no need to hold on to what's obsolete: One never loses what one tosses away deliberately.
—Veronique Vienne, writer
Living better through letting go
We are all busy people—busy with work and projects, busy with play and dreams, busy with our communities and friends and families. We look at our homes and think, “What a mess! There is no way I can get this clutter under control without spending weeks working on it full time!” We look at ourselves and think, “I’m a mess! What am I doing with my life? What do I even want to be doing with my life?” It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the seemingly vast distance between the way things are now in our lives and the calm, clear lives we’d like to be enjoying.
We know we don’t have everything we want. We know we have things