seasons

Life changes. You can’t stay with the same possessions for long.

party time

Owning the right possessions is like inviting the right people to your party.

bubbling over

Your dreams are larger than your boxes.

looking

When you are looking for one thing, you may find a hundred things.

analyze to impress

If it feels important to impress anyone, get specific about it. Who do you want to impress? When is it important to make an impression? What kind of impression do you want to make? What reaction are you hoping for? What are the various ways you might create that impression and get that reaction? Among the alternatives, which comes most easily and naturally to you?

specialist

Having fewer things means knowing each thing better and taking better care of it.

owner of

You can’t properly own anything until you spend time with it and put attention on it.

collectible

If you have read a book or have not read it or have read part of it, that isn’t by itself a reason to own the book. A book can only win a place in ytour collection based on its merits and value in the way it connects to your unique life purpose.

sketches

Know what you own and why, and you know who you are.

undecided

You have multiple possessions that you intend to use in the future, but there is only one future that matters.

levels

You are not your stuff. You are not your thoughts about your stuff either.

memorabilia

Choose what memories you want to reinforce with photographs and documents. It won’t be most of them.

the dealer

As soon as you are convinced that only material things are real, you are ready to be manipulated by the people who control the material things.

earnings

Money earns interest; stuff, dust.

contained

Before you buy a better box to keep your stuff in, make sure you have stuff to keep.

on hand

A tool box might hold 50 tools; a hand can hold only one.

scaling factor

Don’t keep two big things to do something that is more easily done by one small thing.

space interrupted

So often when there is a room full of stuff, the room is more valuable than all of the stuff.

catalog

If you’re going to own more than a few hundred distinct items in a category, you can’t know what you own unless you have a system for organizing, identifying, and cataloging the items.

loaded

The more uncertain the world is, the less it makes sense to keep things for the future.