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Happy Discardia! Our June celebration (lasting this time until the 28th) is all about changing patterns in your life that aren't serving you.

What’s dragging you down or holding you back?

Where is your energy going?

Is your energy fueling your engines or just polluting your world?

Decide on one thing you want to be different and do things this week to get some changes in motion.

Some conversations where you're talking past each other can be avoided. You can do this by clarifying in your communication whether you want to:
a) express your feelings and feel heard and respected (and perhaps get emotional support), or
b) are requesting their advice / action / a change in their behavior.

When your emotions are involved, it's so helpful to be clear about your goals for communication!

Happy Discardia! March Discardia is about Getting Started.

What pleasure have you been holding off on that you can bring into your life?

Yes, start that book.
Yes, plant that seed.
Yes, watch that "beginner's guide to..." and then try it out.
Yes, say "You know, I'd really rather ... instead."

Happy Discardia!
Give yourself some upgrades this week:
- Take at least the first step toward ridding your home of a daily annoyance (rearrange/fix/replace).
- Get a more effective & more comfortable mask to keep you & others safer (I like the Moldex Airwave N95).
- Schedule a day for relaxation & letting go of all stress.
- Refresh your bed with clean sheets & make a welcoming place for rest.
- Discard an old nagging "should" that no longer fits who you are & want to be.
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Quitting is not the same as giving up. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/opinion/quitting-jobs-resignation-employment.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqohlSFUZAybSRdkhrxqAwuHSwaAgh3nxaSqSQy0H1ekOAoeG8lvMYqwmat4r2zOKQdJHLPkvWPl2hKd5DnBadjOJ8NGCiYhXZGI8s56yVWc7mJvEBewxrW-7K2fldbY6mbS2sVePPGW-RKHc1XVxdAsxoJQzcUq4miBdntezGeV33tZ43v4nF8o6EW9GPH_WyqGuXxZuO9yGbgXf6x02W4xaWzLVnN2d6dEQYVkYSAKGHD4kvzFKuJ4LM8gXPa38MxYjZMP45L0QAWFqJ42vbIYjkl271GvsBJFa5KGioR8jcw&smid=url-share
Yes. Love this!

10 years ago today was the first release of Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff. 🎂🎉

I'm deeply happy that the book has provided help to so many people over the years and continues to be appreciated. 💖

Happy Discardia!

September's Discardian season focuses on the power of quality over quantity.

On that theme, here's a post from back when things were generally a bit less intense, which is just as true today:
You have permission not to do everything.
https://discardia.com/2015/09/30/you-still-have-permission-not-to-do-everything/

Focus Stars: motivation without guilt

For a month now I’ve been doing a very successful experiment in orienting my time to what matters to me most, without beating myself up with incomplete to-do lists. I track my successful focusing by coloring in part of a simple drawing I made. I use a color that makes me very happy.

I have seven areas I am choosing to focus on. For each of those areas, there’s a daily habit I want to do. When I do it, I fill in that point...

https://discardia.com/2021/08/28/focus-stars-motivation-without-guilt/

Beautiful post from Dave Grady on tackling the ‘Museum of Me’. https://davidgrady.blog/2021/08/09/the-stuff-we-keep/

Thanks for writing, Dave!

"I’m learning the importance of doing what works for me because it works for me, and encourage you to do the same."

– Alexandra Erin

This Discardia season lasts from today (the solstice) to July 9th (the next new moon), so we've got a nice long one this time. Enjoy!

"the necessary ingredient needed to make the past work for the future is our energy in the present, metabolizing one in to the other." – Audre Lorde

I wish you a Discardia season of fierce love and care for yourself and commitment to making tomorrow better for you and your community.

If you want more space for you now, find replaceable things you aren't using and send them into the future*. Sure there's a fee to retrieve them** if you do need them, but it's often heavily discounted by all the stuff you didn't retrieve.

*Give them away (or sell them if they're really worth more than that hassle).
**Buying a (probably better) replacement.

Discardia is the transition from thinking of your stuff as possessions to thinking of it as a service or information resource.

Great advice on a high-pressure Discardian choice: whether or not to have children https://www.vox.com/first-person/22370250/should-i-have-kids-a-baby-decide-start-family-parenthood-kids-childfree

It's the last day of this season of Discardia, and time to let yourself set down a weight you don't need to be carrying.

Sit with that part of you that is stuck with an old load and feel their real feeling.

Let them know that here in the present you don't need that weight. Invite them to set it down and see it there, on the ground, in the past.

And then invite that past self to come with you into the present, free from what it has been suffering with.

Do something fun to please yourselves.

Nice long Discardia season this time, until April 11th!

Schedule time with yourself to let the anxiety dissipate.

What are you needing most right now?
What have you learned you need or want more of in general?
What have you learned you need or want less of in your life?

Appreciate your growing wisdom & give yourself these changes.

Happy Discardia!
Let go of fear of getting vaccinated. All of them are good & they work.
https://twitter.com/Dorry_Segev/status/1341079491066679296

Let go of fear that this will last forever. We’re making huge progress & things are getting better.

Don’t let go of your good safety habits; we still need them.