revision

It is easier to change your mind if you know where your point of view came from.

lined up

Things are easier to see if you find them in a familiar order or arrangement.

orthodoxy

A different technique or strategy could work twice as well. This is why it is important to know the origin of the techniques you rely on.

rerun

Half of what people feel comes from things that happened a long time ago.

re-treat

Think of one costume character from your past that you would want to do again. Think of one costume character from your past that you would not want to do again.

archives

Almost everyone overestimates how much they need to keep as a record or memory of a past event.

seen

After you have seen something, it is hard to not see it again the next time.

way

You don’t have to walk the same path day after day to leave a trail.

year in pictures

Remember last year. Think of three different ways you could tell the story of last year.

short history

Deleting the irrelevant corners of your digital history should be a regular habit, a subject you turn to at least once every year. Don't wait for something damaging or embarrassing to surface.

fork in another road

Sometimes people want to reopen your past decisions just to distract you from the new decisions you need to make.

a lifetime too late

Many of the people around you are drawing up schemes for the circumstances of half a century ago.

forefooted

Consider how much you have gained from the efforts of those who set out before you.

givers of gifts

Write a short list of people who have given you things you currently own.

the age of clutter

The amount of clutter you have does not say much about the kind of person you are. It is a stronger indicator of the historical period you live in.

blank tablet

It is better not to be trained at all than to be trained to fail.

decorous decor

You might insist on having some things just because someone once thought it was a good idea, yet you might not know where the idea came from or anyone who actually agrees with it.

original stress

Habits and practices that you take for granted were originally created in haste as a solution to a pressing problem.

by convention

Usually when a voice tells you that you “have to have” certain things in specific rooms of your house or apartment, it is the voice of conventional thinking rather than any practical necessity. If something is really needed you think instead of the recent actions that would not have been possible without that specific item. Conventional thinking about the way people ought to live is often highly impractical and always looks to the past rather than the future.

resolution

For many people every detail of life consists of what they decided in prior emergencies.