Starting the new year at level 4

Every blogger it seems, needs to say something important about the New Year--me too. I have a couple posts I want to write, but this first one is easy...

I've not made a list of goals (yet), or changed any behaviors (tho I am thinking of a few). What I have started doing is cutting things. Unsubscribing to some newsletters and a few blogs, deciding to give up a couple projects/tasks, and trying to quit a couple distractions that aren't in my goals (like playing America's Army).

This morning I started unsubscribing to a newsletter and noticed that 'cutting' was Level 4 of the Seven Levels of Change posted on my desk (and here linked to my nearly forgotten-but-not-cut '40-days of purpose blog'). Interesting that I also found a post there regarding cutting with this nifty thought: "How much does one cut?"

Someone here at the office is having their dog put to sleep this morning. That is a deep cut, and maybe not even voluntary, but it makes you think.

>>>This activity of mine is just a habit that I heard mentioned in David Allen's Ready For Anything book. Something along the lines of 'if you aren't sure where to start or how to jump-start your productive activity, clean your desk'.